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How your solar rooftop became a national security issue

How your solar rooftop became a national security issue

James Showalter describes a pretty specific if not entirely implausible nightmare scenario. Someone drives up to your house, cracks your Wi-Fi password, and then starts messing with the solar inverter mounted beside your garage — that unassuming gray box that converts the direct current from your rooftop panels into the alternating current that powers your

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The hidden cost of living in Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

The hidden cost of living in Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

In Brief Posted: 12:59 PM PDT · August 10, 2025 Image Credits:Deleon Realty Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report that details how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent

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The computer science dream has become a nightmare

The computer science dream has become a nightmare

In Brief Posted: 11:59 AM PDT · August 10, 2025 Image Credits:izusek / Getty Images The coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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