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The 350-W panels are fairly easy to set up, though the metal fasteners on the kickstands take a bit of fiddling. Unfortunately, the 500-W panels are downright finicky. To fold down compactly, it is broken into 12 separate sections and folds out in a double row, so I found I had to wrestle with it to get the feet set up and ensure it was stable. You’ll also need to watch out at the higher angle if there’s any wind, or a gust might just catch them and flip them over. The flip side is that they fold down impressively…

Cyberattacks against water and wastewater systems reportedly have reached at least a dozen states, with threat actors exploiting low-complexity attacks against industrial controllers. The intrusions, possibly linked to the Iranian government, prove the US’s water infrastructure remains dangerously exposed.In recent weeks, water and wastewater organizations associated with a number of different US states have disclosed cyberattacks against their systems. Minnesota was the first to confirm such attacks late last month, saying that cyberattackers targeted operational technology (OT) systems for more than 30 water systems. Around the same time on July 30, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated an…

Wallets linked to crypto payments platform Coinsbuy were reportedly drained of more than $7.9 million across Ethereum and TRON on Sunday.According to a Telegram post from blockchain investigator SpecterAnalyst, the attacker began moving the stolen funds into Monero through exchanges, while ChangeNOW helped freeze a six-figure portion of the assets.Coinsbuy temporarily paused deposits and withdrawals following the incident before restoring both services, according to SpecterAnalyst. The investigator identified three addresses linked to the stolen funds, including two Ethereum addresses and one TRON address.Source: SpecterAnalyst, TelegramIncorporated in Panama, Coinsbuy is a crypto payments platform that provides businesses with infrastructure to accept,…

Jackie, a bald eagle in California who became an online star, died on Monday after receiving weeks of veterinary treatment. Jackie was being cared for by Ojai Raptor Center, a wildlife rehabilitation organisation, after she was attacked by other eagles. The bird had underlying health issues that caused anaemia and weight loss. “Over the past several days, her condition continued to deteriorate despite intensive treatment and the combined efforts of our veterinary team and consulting specialists,” Ojai Raptor Center said in a statement. A livestream featuring the Big Bear Valley nest of Jackie and her partner, Shadow, has hundreds of…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that they, along with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will lead a new pilot program to study whether thermal energy networks could help cool subway stations. During the summer, underground stations can reach temperatures far higher than those above ground because of heat generated by the trains, equipment and surrounding infrastructure.  “Anyone who has stood in a subway platform in August knows that our stations do not just get hot. They turn into underground saunas,” Mamdani said at a Monday press conference.  The $800,000 pilot study will…

Independent MP accuses Labor of ‘listening to the money and the power’ on gambling ad policyKate Chaney, who was on the inquiry with the late Labor MP Peta Murphy that handed down the landmark ‘you win some, you lose more’ report on gambling harm, says so far it seems the talks between the Coalition and Labor on a gambling reform package are “disappointing”.Speaking to the ABC’s RN Breakfast a little earlier, the independent MP says the government has listened to the gambling lobby instead of the evidence.Part of the government’s proposed reforms limit online gambling ads on television to three…

New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been “hollowed out” by decades of decline and “for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable”.BBC News has exposed organised crime on high streets across the country, revealing shops selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, selling cannabis and cocaine, enabling illegal working and suspected money-laundering.The Conservatives and Reform said the proposals would lead to “more empty” shops, without tax relief for other small businesses.Burnham…

A democratic socialist. An insurgent campaign. America’s swingiest swing state.A roller coaster of a primary race is crashing to a close this week in Wisconsin, where a chef-turned-state lawmaker has become the front-runner in the state’s Democratic contest for governor — much to the chagrin of a party establishment that has struggled to stop her.The progressive favorite, Francesca Hong, 37, is a democratic socialist who is betting that her populist pitch — she opposes the construction of data centers and unabashedly backs “Medicare for all” — will meet a moment of rising economic frustration.Mainstream Democrats are deeply worried that Hong’s…

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he’d used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he’d hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, “Do cool shit.” I made what I hoped was a polite noise. What reaction was this man looking for? He probably hoped someone, maybe me, would say it was cool or inspiring. It seemed I was not the first person he’d told about this poster. “You know, it’s funny,” he said to me. “No one ever says anything…

Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team said. “StormEncryptor is written in C++ and appends the file name extension .encrypted to files it encrypts,” Microsoft noted in a series of posts on Bluesky. “It then drops a ransom note named !!!README_FIRST!!!.txt to every scanned directory.” Although the exact vulnerability exploited by the threat actor as part of this campaign…