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Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment. Kimberly White/Getty Images reader comments 6 Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled “Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI… Read More »

Hang out with Ars in San Jose and DC this fall for two infrastructure events

Enlarge / Infrastructure! reader comments 16 Howdy, Arsians! Last year, we partnered with IBM to host an in-person event in the Houston area where we all gathered together, had some cocktails, and talked about resiliency and the future of IT. Location always matters for things like this, and so we hosted it at Space Center… Read More »

Feds allege destructive Russian hackers targeted US oil refineries

Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. reader comments 27 with 20 posters participating Share this story For years, the hackers behind the malware known as Triton or Trisis have stood out as a uniquely dangerous threat to critical infrastructure: a group of digital… Read More »

Saudi Aramco confirms data leak after $50 million cyber ransom demand

Enlarge / The Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Getty Images reader comments 27 with 23 posters participating Share this story Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, confirmed on Wednesday that some of its company files had been leaked… Read More »

Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

reader comments 20 with 17 posters participating Share this story For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and… Read More »