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London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/ai-field…

AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE
AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure - SiliconANGLE

Meilenstein am Large Hadron Collider: Mehr als ein Exabyte an Forschungsdaten
Der übergroße Teil der Daten, die am Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC gesammelt werden, wird automatisch aussortiert. Trotzdem wurde jetzt über ein Exabyte archiviert.

Another rabbithole: Add synced lyrics (*.lrc) to your local music library.
Or sync them up yourself, if they don't exist yet.
https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget

GitHub - tranxuanthang/lrcget: Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.
Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library. - tranxuanthang/lrcget

Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seabirds-ingest-large-quantities-pollutants.html

Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal
In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the mass death of birds, including the iconic bald eagle. One reason was that the pesticide made eggshells thinner, causing mothers to break them when sitting on them to incubate. Silent Spring is considered the founding work of the modern environmental movement.

A new epistemic tool has arrived in the @… lab!

The security company LayerX has found a critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT). A manipulated Google Calendar entry can execute arbitrary code on the computer without any user interaction. Although the vulnerability received the highest possible severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the common CVSS, Anthropic does not intend to fix the problem for the time being:

Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - LayerX
  Summary: LayerX discovered a zero-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT), in which a single Google Calendar event can silently compromise a system running Claude Desktop Extensions. The flaw impacts more than 10,000 active users and 50 DXT extensions.  Unlike traditional browser extensions, Claude Desktop Extensions run unsandboxed with full […]

7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @… (they all have the same tune)
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Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pjm-unveils-plan-tackle-ai-…