E-mails and pop-up messages encouraging the use of multi-factor authentication or complex passwords made users throughout the world aware that last month was cybersecurity awareness month. Many are also still being reminded of -- and becoming numb to -- the personal stakes of cybersecurity breaches, thanks to free credit monitoring offers in the aftermath of far-too-regular personal data theft from the financial, healthcare, and human resources institutions that we trust to keep our information safe. But just as we didnt address the automotive safety threats addressed in Unsafe at Any Speed through either blind trust in existing safety features or a defeatism around the hazards of automotive accidents, we shouldnt allow the mounting stakes of cybersecurity to go unchecked.Given the pervasiveness of personal data theft as a cybercrime, its easy to believe that the consequences of a cyberattack would be limited to individual harm that can be detected and remedied through free credit monitoring and a messy-but-doable identity recovery process following a breach. Its equally easy to believe that the nation-state hackers who use sophisticated attacks that can cause not only individual financial and corporate reputational damage, but also massive societal impact, have limited their hacking to high-level government-controlled systems. However, recent events have proven that this is not the case.Related:Americans got their first taste of the potential physical and economic impact of a cyberattack in May 2021, when Eastern European cyber criminals caused the shutdown of Colonial Pipelines operations due to ransomware in its IT systems -- a breach that did not even directly impact the critical operational technology (OT) systems that control the pipeline itself. The criminal actors responsible were able to extract a multimillion-dollar ransom, most of which was recovered thanks to law enforcement collaboration. Criminal attacks against utilities remain ongoing, as evidenced by the August cyberattack against Halliburton; moreover, utilities and even the government wont always be able to pay their way out of a cyberattack.The next time America, or one of its close allies, experiences a major infrastructure attack, our credibility on the world stage and the sovereignty of our partners abroad may be at stake. A China-affiliated cyber actor, codenamed Volt Typhoon, was conducting low-profile hacks to be able to orchestrate a massive everything, everywhere, all at once cyberattack that could impact the availability of power and water across the United States. Such an attack would be used to weaken American resolve to support Taiwan in the event of an invasion or other hostile action, warned US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly in January 2025.Related:CISA, in partnership with US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, has built unprecedented intelligence sharing and cybersecurity collaboration mechanisms with critical infrastructure providers to mitigate this capability, but the drumbeat of attacks has not stopped. In the midst of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an unattributed attack on American Water and a China-linked attack against US telecom providers that may have targeted lawful intercept capabilities were potent reminders that hackers arent just after our money --theyre also trying to jeopardize access to basic necessities and invade our privacy, even if theyre holding their full capabilities in reserve to strike at the moment thats most advantageous for them.As strong as the collaboration between government and critical infrastructure in the cybersecurity space has made us, its not enough to overcome the threat of highly sophisticated attackers using AI to target industrial systems, but also personal accounts and devices to gain a foothold in corporate networks. Software companies must incorporate more secure coding practices as CISA is encouraging with its Secure by Design and Default initiatives. Cybersecurity companies must keep innovating to create technologies that can defuse new types of attacks, like a browser-based attack developed in mid-2024 that could compromise a computer if a user so much as viewed a compromised image file.Related:But at the end of the day, its not enough that the US Government and corporations -- both those that deploy enterprise software and those who develop it -- emphasize cybersecurity. Each of us must realize that cybersecurity is a fundamental safety concern that merits due diligence in our day-to-day lives. In the automotive world, more than 60 years of life-threatening accidents occurred between the production of the Model T and the requirements for safety belts; it took 20 more years for laws requiring drivers and passengers to use them. Its been 30 years since the introduction of the World Wide Web to the public, and its evident that we dont have 80 years to only create, but also embrace, technology to enforce internet security and safety. The threats are accelerating, and neither the US Government nor free credit monitoring alone can save us.

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This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Whats next for NASAs giant moon rocket? NASAs huge lunar rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), might be in trouble. As rival launchers like SpaceXs Starship gather pace, some are questioning the need for the US national space agency to have its own mega rocket at allsomething that could become a focus of the incoming Trump administration, in which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to play a key role. SLS has been in development for more than a decade. The rocket is huge, and about 15% more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 70s. It is also expensive, costing an estimated $4.1 billion per launch. It was designed with a clear purposereturning astronauts to the moons surface. And while it seems likely the rocket will at least launch Artemis II next September, beyond that its future is less certain. Read the full story. Jonathan O'Callaghan This piece is part of MIT Technology Reviews Whats Next series, looking across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. This startup is getting closer to bringing next-generation nuclear to the grid This is a busy time of year for all of us, and thats certainly true in the advanced nuclear industry. MIT Technology Review released our list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch less than two months ago. Since then, awardee Kairos Power has had three big announcements about its progress toward building next-generation nuclear reactors. Each of these bits of news represents an interesting aspect of the process. So lets dig into the announcements and what they mean for where nuclear technology is going. Read the full story. Casey Crownhart This story is from The Spark, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things climate and energy. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. The must-reads Ive combed the internet to find you todays most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A Chinese ship may have sabotaged critical data cables By dragging its huge anchor along the Baltic seabed for over 100 miles. (WSJ $)+ Swedish authorities are investigating the bulk carrier. (FT $) 2 The FTC is probing Microsoft Its a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into its cloud computing, AI and security arms. (NYT $)+ The FTC has been preparing for this for a full year. (WP $)+ Its notable its been signed off in the Biden administrations dying days. (The Information $)+ Meanwhile, Google is hoping to have its recent antitrust ruling thrown out. (Bloomberg $)3 RFKs Make America Healthy Again movement is in trouble Just days into the project, cracks are already beginning to show. (FT $)+ The MAGA policy agenda is extremely skeptical of actual scientific evidence. 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The big story A day in the life of a Chinese robotaxi driver July 2022 When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: I instinctively went for the passenger seat. Or when I was driving, I would expect the car to brake by itself, says the 33-year-old Beijing native, who joined the Chinese tech giant Baidu in January 2021 as a robotaxi driver. Liu is one of the hundreds of safety operators employed by Baidu, driving five days a week in Shougang Park. But despite having only worked for the company for 19 months, he already has to think about his next career move, as his job will likely be eliminated within a few years. Read the full story. Zeyi Yang We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? 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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Reviews weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This is a busy time of year for all of us, and thats certainly true in the advanced nuclear industry. MIT Technology Review released our list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch less than two months ago. Since then, awardee Kairos Power has had three big announcements about its progress toward building next-generation nuclear reactors. Each of these bits of news represents an interesting aspect of the process. So lets dig into the announcements and what they mean for where nuclear technology is going. First, a quick refresher on Kairos Power: While nuclear plants today overwhelmingly use pressurized water to keep reactors cool, Kairos is using molten salt. The idea is that these reactors (which are also smaller than those typically built today) will help generate electricity in a way thats safer and more efficient than conventional nuclear power. When it comes to strategy, Kairos is taking small steps toward the ultimate goal of full-size power plants. Construction began earlier this year on Hermes, the companys first nuclear test reactor. That facility will generate a small amount of heatabout 35 megawatts worthto demonstrate the technology. Last week, the company announced it received a construction permit for the next iteration of its system, Hermes 2. This plant will share a location with Hermes, and it will include the infrastructure to transform heat to electricity. That makes it the first electricity-producing next-generation nuclear plant to get this approval in the US. While this news wasnt a huge surprise (the company has been working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for years), any day that youre getting a permit or a license from the NRC is an unusual and special day, Kairos CEO Mike Laufer told me in an interview. The company is developing a plan to work on construction for both Hermes and Hermes 2 at the same time, he added. When I asked if Hermes is still on track to start up in 2027 (as we reported in our profile of the company in October), Laufer said thats an aggressive timeline. While construction on test reactors is rolling, Kairos is forging ahead with commercial dealsin October, it announced an agreement with Google to build up to 500 megawatts worth of power plants by 2035. Under this agreement, Kairos will develop, construct, and operate plants and sell electricity to the tech giant. Kairos will need to build multiple reactors to deliver 500 MW. The first deployment should happen by 2030, with additional units to follow. One of the benefits of building smaller reactors is learning as you go along and making improvements that can lower costs and make construction more efficient, Laufer says. While the construction permit and Google deal are arguably the biggest recent announcements from Kairos, Im also fascinated by a more niche milestone: In early October, the company broke ground on a salt production facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that will make the molten salt used to cool its reactors. Salt is one of the key areas where we do have some unique and specialized needs, Laufer says. And having control over the areas of the supply chain that are specialized will be key to helping the company deliver electricity reliably and at lower cost, he adds. The companys molten salt is called Flibe, and its a specific mix of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride. One fun detail I learned from Laufer is that the mixture needs to be enriched in lithium-7 because that isotope absorbs fewer neutrons than lithium-6, allowing the reactor to run more efficiently. The new facility in Albuquerque will produce large quantities of high-purity Flibe enriched in lithium-7. Progress in the nuclear industry can sometimes feel slow, with milestones few and far between, so its really interesting to see Kairos taking so many small steps in quick succession toward delivering on its promise of safe, cheap nuclear power. Weve had a lot of huge accomplishments. We have a long way to go, Laufer says. This is not an easy thing to pull off. We believe we have the right approach and were doing it the right way, but it requires a lot of hard work and diligence. Now read the rest of The Spark Related reading For more details on Kairos and its technology, check out our profile of the company in the 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch package from October. If youre dying for more details on molten salt, check out this story I wrote in January about a test system Kairos built to demonstrate the technology. STEPHANIE ARNETT/MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW | GETTY, ADOBE STOCK Another thing Donald Trump pledged to enact tariffs on a wide range of products imported into the US. The plans could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more, threatening to slow progress on climate and potentially stall the economy. Read more about the potential impacts for technology in the latest story from my colleague James Temple. Keeping up with climate The UN climate talks wrapped up over the weekend. In the resulting agreement, rich nations will provide at least $300 billion in climate finance per year by 2035 to developing nations to help them deal with climate change. (Carbon Brief) This falls well short of the $1 trillion mark that many had hoped to reach. (MIT Technology Review)Utilities might be spending a lot of money on the wrong transmission equipment on the grid. Dollars are flowing to smaller, local projects, not the interstate projects that are crucial for getting more clean energy online. (Inside Climate News) Sustainable aviation fuel is one of the only viable options to help clean up the aviation industry in the near term. But what are these fuels, exactly? And how do they help with climate change? Its surprisingly complicated, and the details matter. (Canary Media) Automakers want Trump to keep rules in place that will push the US toward adoption of electric vehicles. Companies have already invested billions of dollars into an EV transition. (NewYork Times) Theres a growing chasm in American meat consumption: The number of households that avoid meat has increased slightly, but all other households have increased their meat purchases. 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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"A new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art dives into the bio-digital processes through architecture and nature.The exhibition, titled Deep Forest, was created by design innovation firm ecoLogicStudio, led by Prof Claudia Pasquero and Dr Marco Poletto.Deep Forest, created together with academic partner Innsbruck University, is part of the Living Structures exhibition series at the renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Deep Forest will be on show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until March 23rd, 2025.Deep Forest, commissioned by the Danish museum in 2023, reverses the modernist goal of mechanizing nature by celebrating the naturalization of technology and architecture.Mette Marie Kallehauge and Kjeld Kjeldsen's new series, "Architecture Connecting," includes the exhibition "Living Structures." It highlights the evolution of architecture in the context of the climate crisis and the social, cultural, and political challenges that this reality presents."The forest are cyber-organic networks""Diving deeply into a forest means losing oneself into the multiplicity of interconnecting processes that defines its very existence; and with it our own identity. In our contemporary world these processes are biological and digital, as both us and the forest are cyber-organic networks," said Prof Claudia Pasquero, the founder of ecoLogicStudio."Like the slime mould greeting visitors at the entrance of the Deep Forest exhibition, it serves as both a woodland fungus and a biological computera form of wetware AI infrastructure with the capacity to plan a city," Pasquero added.Experience is the only way to fully comprehend the intricacy and interconnectedness of this work, which is why ecoLogicStudio's exhibition at the Louisiana uses the immersive language of spatial design to convey the creative spirit of their 20 years of research and bio-digital design advancements with their academic partners.The Deep Forest installation, which draws from the museum's distinctive landscape setting, is influenced by the region's territorial diversity as well as the materials that can be gathered and produced locally.The most important of these is the mycelium, which is the organism that creates the Wood Wide Web, also known as the forest internet.Mycelium controls the exhibition's planar organization of the projects, sets up the photosynthetic reactors' aeration system, and directs visitors along designated routes.Additionally, it becomes a living architectural material that gives biodegradable columns shape and substance.Although the uses of mycelium in biodesign are endless, Deep Forest concentrates on its symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic microalgae. The circularity of the forest depends on photosynthesis from both algae and tree leaves, which work together to form lichens that support this interdependent ecosystem.In addition to providing context for the photosynthesizersthe 44 glass vessels containing living cultures of cyanobacteria and seaweeds that provide fresh oxygen and carbon sequestration to the museum's room102 carbon storers constructed from salvaged birch trunks are home to a variety of fungal species in the exhibit.600g of CO2/day, or the equivalent of a small mature forest, is captured from the atmosphere by the 44 photosynthesizers that ecoLogicStudio designed and engineered. Of these, 29 shorter units contain microalgae types of Spirulina SP, while 15 taller units contain macroalgae species typical of the local shores.Additionally, these supply biomass for 20 biodegraders that were developed at the University of Innsbruck's Synthetic Landscape Lab and 3D printed.Their infill is composed of 300 kg of spent coffee grounds, and their exterior structure is 3D printed using biopolymer infused with algae.After being inoculated with colonies of living mycelium, they grow to create a solid synthetic trunk and a new space-filling network while consuming the sugars in coffee grounds.The synthetic mycelium trunks are buried in the ground for up to three weeks as part of the proprietary bio-fabrication process. This gives the mycelium time to fully develop its networks and achieve the desired material and aesthetic consistency.The trunks can now be removed and dried to gain both aesthetic appeal and mechanical resistance. Fresh mushrooms will occasionally emerge from cracks in the 3D printed bark when certain areas are kept damp to promote the growth of fruiting bodies.In summary, the micromanagement of photosynthesis as a circular process is given architectural form by Deep Forest. It represents the goal of creating sustainable architecture out of the pollution and waste that are released into the modern urban environment."Photosynthesis is fire in reverse. There is too much fire in the world, so to counteract fire we need more photosynthesis and we need to design it, to customise it," Prof Mario Carpo from its interview with Prof Claudia Pasquero and Dr Marco Poletto recorded for the exhibition catalogue.Five themed areas within Deep Forest highlight a range of recent projects that ecoLogicStudio and its academic partners have worked on. Highlights include GAN-Physarum: La drive numrique, a machine learning algorithm trained to mimic the behaviour of living slime mould, envisioning a bio-digital, autonomous Paris; Tree One, a living sculpture previously exhibited in Korea and China; and the results of research led by Prof. Claudia Pasqueros students in the Synthetic Landscape Lab at Innsbruck University.The exhibition also features ecoLogicStudios recent book, Deep Green: Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and the bio-digital gardening project H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g.Dr Marco Poletto and Prof Claudia Pasquero, the founders of ecoLogicStudioecoLogicStudio created a restorative space for a Swiss consumer healthcare company in Nyon, Switzerland.In addition, the firm installed an air bubble air-purifying eco-machine at COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Moreover, the studio created the worlds first biotechnological playground for children to integrate air-purifying micro-algae.Project factsProject name:Deep ForestExhibition Info:Living Structures (part of Architecture Connecting series)Dates:8 November 2024 23 March 2025Location: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DenmarkArtist: ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto)Academic Partners:Synthetic Landscape Lab at Innsbruck University, Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the Bartlett UCLProject Team:Prof Claudia Pasquero, Dr Marco Poletto with Jasper Zehetgruber, Beyza Nur Armagan, Xiao Wang, Alessandra PolettoPrototyping Support Team: Konstantina Bikou, Korbinian Enzinger, Francesca Turi, Jonas Wohlgenannt, Marco Matteraglia, Michael Unterberger, Mika Schulz, Felix Humml, Bo Liu.All images Rasmus Hjortshj.> via ecoLogicStudio