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  1. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    'wrecking ball' could cause record temperature rise, UN says
    The new WMO seasonal outlook predicted El Nino event would become extremely strong, with temperatures in the central Pacific rising about 3.8 Celsius above normal between November and January, peaking around December.
    "We have not seen in our records 3.8. We have seen around 3 in some record El Ninos before, with very substantive impacts across the world. So we are beyond that limit," said.
    reuters.com/business/environme

    #elnino #pacific #wmo
  2. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    in Reaches Widest Expansion Ever
    officials identified a new case in , more than 2,000mi west of outbreak’s epicenter in Central Africa. The news came the same day of a 9th case of Ebola in the East African country of .
    Since the first case was identified in May, has recorded more than 9,700 confirmed cases and more than 4,600 deaths, making the outbreak the fastest growing Ebola ever.
    nytimes.com/2026/10/22/health/
    archive.is/20261022165847/http

    #ebola #outbreak #africa #health #nigeria #kenya
  3. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    says we’re going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a “now what?” answer
    For first time, acknowledged reality and conceded keeping warming below 1.5° was no longer viable. New goal focus on keeping both how long we exceed that limit and how much we exceed it by, at a minimum. Requires both dramatic cuts and removal of hundreds of gigatonnes of from the atmosphere.
    Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C & massive carbon removal.
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/1

    #un #unep #emissions #carbondioxide #climate
  4. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    CEO says models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
    90% of the performance at 10% of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
    The CEO said open weight models currently deliver “anywhere from 25 percent to 10 percent of the token cost of the frontier models. That is very attractive given that they’re now 90 percent as effective.”
    Krishna thinks businesses will most often choose not to incur the higher costs.
    theregister.com/systems/2026/1

    #ibm #openweight #ai
  5. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    'Behemoth' to upend global
    events already being reported are expected to "multiply – and cascade – as El Niño intensifies," WMO warned
    "It will tear through Latin America, Eastern and Southern Africa, Asia and the Pacific with , and ," UN's Tom Fletcher said, warning of profound humanitarian consequences. Impacting agriculture, infrastructure and supply chain, causing trillions of dollars in damages around globe
    usatoday.com/story/news/weathe

    #elnino #weather #extremeweather #extremeheat #droughts #flood
  6. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    Hackers Exploited the Days Before They Were Patched
    Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
    analysts spotted Oct 17 exploitation on Wed while looking back at activity on , or intentionally vulnerable or other digital lures that help researchers study attack methods and trends.
    wired.com/story/hackers-exploi
    archive.is/20261022024457/http

    #php #vulnerabilities #php2shell #aws #honeypots #webservers
  7. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #HPE #SpaceborneComputer4 Will Bring #AI and #HPC to the #Moon on #Astrolab FLIP
    The mission is intended to launch in late 2026 on #VoyagerTechnologies’ #Griffin1 lander. Once deployed, Spaceborne Computer-4 will run large language model retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference, LiDAR data processing for mapping and navigation, and an AI services container designed to demonstrate reliable deployment of scalable AI applications at the lunar edge.
    servethehome.com/hpe-spaceborn

    #hpe #spacebornecomputer4 #ai #hpc #moon #astrolab
  8. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    shifts exotic creatures to Southern 's coast. Here’s what anglers are seeing
    A super El Niño and unusually warm waters are bringing tropical species — including bullet tuna, mahi-mahi and wahoo — to Southern California’s coast.
    Sportfishing boats are catching thousands of yellowfin tuna after two lean years, but the fishery is far quieter than during the 2014-15 marine .
    latimes.com/california/story/2
    archive.is/20261013151619/http

    #elnino #sea #california #pacific #heatwave
  9. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    is under pressure to delay publication of key global report
    The report, known as , was scheduled to appear in 2028 in time for deliberations at the UN climate summit, Cop33, late that year. Cop33 is scheduled to critique governments’ actions to cut in line with the Paris agreement target of limiting temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
    Some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ipcc #climate #ar7 #greenhousegas #emissions
  10. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup
    The , CVE-2026-113380, was published by MITRE on Tuesday and given a CVSS score of 9.3, marking it as a critical issue in Signal’s open-source library in every single version before 2.72.0. That update was pushed out last month, but the vulnerability wasn’t made public until now.
    Careful what you say after goodbye, or better yet, update your messaging app.
    theregister.com/security/2026/

    #signal #vulnerability #ringrtc
  11. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    Tens of thousands of sit idle in 's supercluster, just waiting for a failure
    In an eight-GPU node, the chance of having a GPU fail is relatively low. In a 100,000-GPU cluster, failures are unavoidable. Meta is building something that's 10x larger and requires distributed training runs across multiple datacenters.
    The massive pool of redundant GPU is just one of several measures the hyperscaler has taken to keep its training runs on track.
    theregister.com/systems/2026/1

    #nvidia #gpu #meta #prometheus #ai
  12. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    threatens to cut Hormuz internet cables
    spokesman describes communication lines as ‘legitimate new targets’ in conflict with US
    Severing the cables could affect global systems, disrupting financial markets, bank transactions, healthcare and internet.
    Gen Mohebbi said war with , now in 8th month, had entered a lull before a possible “third phase” in which Iran would reveal “new geography of war”, new targets and new weapons.
    telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202

    #iran #revolutionaryguard #undersea #unitedstates
  13. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #HPE says it will run the first #supercomputer benchmarks on the #Moon — GPU-powered #SpaceborneComputer4 is slated to ride a rover to lunar south pole to test #AI and #HPC benchmarks
    Benchmarks include High Performance Conjugate Gradients (#HPCG), a supercomputing metric that complements High Performance LINPACK (#HPL). AI testing will involve large language model (#LLM) retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference, LiDAR processing, and an #AI services container.
    tomshardware.com/tech-industry

    #hpe #supercomputer #moon #spacebornecomputer4 #ai #hpc
  14. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently
    Unconfirmed report claims exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites. This affects every PHP version from , released in 2004, onward.
    PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patches for two vulnerabilities, both with severity ratings of 9.2 out of a possible 10.
    Researchers from another security firm, Sansec, “expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release.”
    arstechnica.com/security/2026/

    #php #php2shell #php5
  15. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #US restarts three shut-down #nuclearreactors to feed #AI #datacenters — 2.25 GW coming online with backing from #Microsoft and #Google
    According to a report, the Palisades #Nuclear Plant in Michigan, the Crane Clean Energy Center on #ThreeMileIsland (Pennsylvania), and Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa are getting a fresh set of proverbial tires to get rolling again.
    All three facilities had previously been shut down at various points as they were deemed too expensive.
    tomshardware.com/tech-industry

    #us #nuclearreactors #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google
  16. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #US #Army Wants to Sic #AIAgents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong?
    Documents obtained by The Intercept show the #military is trying to deploy autonomous #AI agents to hack its adversaries.
    So far, this has largely been the work of human soldiers operating computers, like those of the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade. But as the government races to adopt #artificialintelligence technology, #ARCYBER is looking to offload some of its attacks to AI.
    theintercept.com/2026/10/19/ar

    #us #army #aiagents #military #ai #artificialintelligence
  17. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    They Teach at a . It’s Time to Shut Them Down
    What exactly is an for? "Business school doesn't just hand out skills and a network" argues Marquis "it quietly reshapes how people see the world, rewarding dealmaking, simplification and optimization for financial metrics, while workers and communities become afterthoughts." Business schools are not malfunctioning; highly efficient machines doing exactly what they were designed for.
    nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opinion
    archive.is/20261019134938/http

    #businessschool #mba
  18. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    A hacker broke into #JohnDeere and #SharkNinja with an army of #AIagents
    Researchers at Norforge uncovered attacks through exposed work on Cairn, #AI platform that describes itself as “general-purpose problem-solving engine.” With Cairn, users set start and end point for AI agents, which document progress as they move forward with the task. However, as noted by Norforge, hackers can also use the tool to orchestrate #cyberattacks using AI agents.
    theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
    archive.ph/pYmlC

    #johndeere #sharkninja #aiagents #ai #cyberattacks
  19. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #Astronomers discover the 1st ever green #star
    "Traces of #sodium in the atmosphere of this #whitedwarf absorb the orange part of the spectrum, leaving behind a ghostly green glow"
    Rresearchers found white dwarfs can go a little green after snacking on orbiting #planets. WD J1330+6435, a cool white dwarf 326 light-years away, has been accreting material from a planetary companion. This enriched it with calcium, lithium & sodium, model suggests this would give it green hue
    space.com/astronomy/stars/astr

    #astronomers #star #sodium #whitedwarf #planets
  20. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @benjaminhccarr

    Global survey tests disputed theory behind projections of
    Marine -cliff instability is theory that tall ice cliffs, taller than about 100m (328ft), can become unstable and trigger rapid, self-sustaining ice loss. Because process has never been directly observed, scientists debated if it should be included in projections of sea level rise.
    's "findings suggest ice-sheet models may underestimate how quickly tall ice cliffs can break apart."
    phys.org/news/2026-10-global-i

    #icecliff #sealevelrise #ice #whoi
  21. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    #Microplastics are linked to #inflammation—scientists might have finally worked out why
    Microplastics interact with #water to create highly reactive molecules, a new study finds
    When microplastics come into contact with water, the water near their surface can become chemically active, generating highly reactive species that can modify nearby substances, including biologically important molecules.
    scientificamerican.com/article
    archive.is/20261014174336/http

    #microplastics #inflammation #water
  22. Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected]

    People are using #AI to make their #smartTV dumb again
    One solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on GitHub thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No #ads from the #TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.”
    Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any #AndroidTV or #GoogleTV, replace launcher with one that resembles Apple TV.
    techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/peop
    archive.is/20261019164059/http
    #privacy #surveillance

    #ai #smarttv #ads #tv #androidtv #googletv
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