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The Mother of All AI Supply Chains: Critical, Systemic Vulnerability at the Core of Anthropic’s MCP - OX Security Anthropic design choice Exposes 150M+ Downloads and up to 200K Servers to complete takeover The OX Security Research team has uncovered a critical, systemic vulnerability at the core of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the industry standard for AI agent communication created and maintained by Anthropic.  This flaw enables Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE) on any system running a vulnerable…

The Mother of All AI Supply Chains: Critical, Systemic Vulnerability at the Core of Anthropic’s MCP - OX Security #devopsish

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law One app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect other vendors' applications without disclosure, even before those applications have been installed, and authorizes browser extensions without consent.…

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

*slaps roof*

You can fit so many vulnerabilities in this baby!

A related problem is that none of the installation methods for CASA are particularly friendly for use in clusters. casadocs.readthedocs.io/en/v6.5.6/no...

One of our researchers wants us to install the NOAA CASA tool suite, which requires FUSE if we follow the recommended instructions. Any issues with enabling FUSE for general users on a cluster? (I know some tools depend on it internally but we havenʻt made this part of our routine toolkit support.)

Federal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under Trump The administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration.

Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👇🏻

Somebody please build a single board computer out of these. Prefarably one made inthe U.S. at low cost. Please?

Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”"

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Doing data centers the not-dumb way Jigar Shah joins me to break down why powering new data centers with behind-the-meter natural gas plants is an engineering and economic disaster.

Today on Volts: I talk with my old friend @jigarshahdc.bsky.social about the headlong rush to build data centers, the lunacy of building a bunch of behind-the-meter gas-fired power plants to run them, the benefits of distributed capacity & greater grid utilization, & the need for utility innovation.

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GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming - www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-N...

Summary: if we were making the 2013 IPCC AR5 near-term warming assessment again, with access to the improved historical observational datasets that are now available up to 2012, the assessment would have been 0.1°C higher.

Revisiting the near-term projection from IPCC AR5 A more technical diversion back to 2013

Revisiting the near-term projection from IPCC AR5

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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Colombia and the Netherlands will host the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The Conference is designed as a space for countries, subnational governments and other stakeholders...

Interesting. An international conference specifically about transitioning away from fossil fuels. This is a way for countries that get it to cooperate outside the sclerotic UNFCCC framework. Worth watching.

Watching @jeffgeerling.com sharing his experiences with single board computing clusters with our students as part of the #SBCC this year. Excited to see how my students do. Go GigaDawgs! #HPC

- cache-poisoning: 11,201 (14.1%)
- template-injection: 9,728 (12.2%)
- excessive-permissions: 6,628 (8.3%)
- dangerous-triggers: 5,521 (6.9%)
- unpinned-images: 1,458 (1.8%)
- bot-conditions: 715 (0.9%)
- unsound-condition: 323 (0.4%)
- github-env: 309 (0.4%)
- insecure-commands: 73 (0.1%)
- […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116363514447443039

I've scanned 79k python package repositories that use github actions using zizmor.

32% had at least one high-severity finding beyond just "unpinned-uses".

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A great basic point is made here by Bill McKibben.

US renewables and nuclear generated a record high 52.4% of electricity in March 2026!

RE generated 35%, exceeding gas at 34.4% in March!

Wind and solar produced 26% of US electricity in March.

Fossil fuels fell to a record monthly low of 47.6%!
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Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk' The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy - Greenpeace International The AI boom is not progress if it deepens extraction, environmental harm and attacks on democracy. From Ireland to New Jersey, people are resisting a model of AI development that concentrates profit a...

Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm.

And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:

A climate activist and a gas executive walk into a bar — Outside/In How a first-in-the country geothermal project brought a pair of unlikely allies together.

Electric heat pumps are the main way to outgrow air and climate pollution from burning fossil fuels to heat buildings. Air-source heat pumps are the most cost-effective technology in most settings today, but in the coldest, densest cities, networked geothermal heat pumps may make sense. Quick🧵

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

SQLite Features You Didn’t Know It Had: JSON, text search, CTE, STRICT, generated columns, WAL SQLite has evolved far beyond a simple embedded database. Explore modern features like JSON, FTS5, window functions, strict tables, and more.

SQLite Features You Didn’t Know It Had: JSON, text search, CTE, STRICT, generated columns, WAL #devopsish