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Headed to #BlueTeamCon tomorrow - excited to combine my powers with all the other cybersecurity defenders. Also maybe play a few games with new friends. Remember, kids, Sparkles says #sharingiscaring

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Feasibility of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray backtracking through sparse local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field
S. Romanopoulos, M. Mastorakis, V. Pavlidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21277

Feasibility of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray backtracking through sparse local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field
Planned and ongoing campaigns for the acquisition of high-quality local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) at interstellar cloud locations have generated intense interest in the use of such measurements to accurately backtrack Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) through the Milky Way, a crucial aspect of charged-particle astronomy. However, the inherent sparsity of these measurements raises concerns regarding the feasibility of this approach. We assessed the achievable accuracy…

Today’s Sesame Street episode is brought to you by the letter X, the platform that cannot be trusted…
…and is also brought to you by the number 2, for 2-factor-authentication and the word “cybersecurity!”
Remember kids, never give an elongated muskrat access to your brand identity!

MSN

Dismantling the sawmill motor to investigate an ignition failure. Changing the spark plug didn't help. It could be the HT lead but my local small engine guru says probably the coil.
Getting to the coil requires dismantling a whole lot of stuff...

Operational Experience of the NML Cryogenic Plant at the FAST Test Facility
Timothy Wallace (Fermilab), Joaquim Creus-Prats (Fermilab), Joseph Hurd (Fermilab), Michael J White (Fermilab), Jerry Makara (Fermilab), Liujin Pei (Fermilab), Benjamin Hansen (Fermilab), Jay Theilacker (Fermilab), Rick Bossert (Fermilab), Alexander Martinez (Fermilab), James K Santucci (Fermilab), Sasha Romanov (Fermilab)

Operational Experience of the NML Cryogenic Plant at the FAST Test Facility
The NML cryogenic plant cools two individually cryostated superconducting radio frequency (SRF) capture cavities and one prototype ILC cryomodule with eight SRF cavities. This complex accelerates electrons at 150 MeV for the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) ring, located at the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility. The cryogenic plant is composed of two nitrogen precooled Tevatron satellite refrigerators, two Mycom 2016C compressors, a cryogenic distribution syst…