Technology

New Mexico Delegation Welcomes $64 Million To Modernize And Improve Grid Infrastructure

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New Mexico Delegation News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) welcomed $64,362,000 in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development loans to increase access to clean, affordable energy by building and improving electric infrastructure across New Mexico. 

Continental Divide Electric Coop will Read More

NNSA Announces Awards Of Counter Nuclear Smuggling System Deployment Contracts With SeaTech And Parsons

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence (NSDD) has announced the Counter Nuclear Smuggling System Deployment (CNSSD) contract awards, valued up to a combined $1 billion, to SeaTech Global Security Solutions of Richland, Wash., and Parsons Government Services International, Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., to bolster global security.

Through these contracts, SeaTech Global Security Solutions and Parsons Government Services International, Inc., will undertake the critical task of deploying advanced

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Catch Of The Week: United Healthcare Cyber Attack

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Could your business keep going if key services suddenly were offline, and if you were unable to get paid for your services? That would likely be problematic, right?

This is the situation faced by doctors across the nation after Optum’s Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack, causing them to shut down their networks on Feb. 21, 2024.

Change Healthcare is owned by UnitedHealth Group, the biggest healthcare company in the US. Change Healthcare provides payment processing, allows for checking of patient benefits, and manages Read More

Catch Of The Week: The Day The Facebook Died

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Ah yes, 10:00 a.m. EST, March 5th, 2024… a day that would live in infamy…the day Facebook crashed!

Facebook users across the world were disconcertingly logged out of their accounts, then received an ominous error message when they tried to log back in.

Many users (obviously not me! :P) panicked, thinking that their accounts had been hacked, or that they had finally posted that one over the top meme that earned them time in Facebook jail (banned!).

 

OK yes, I did panic for about 5 minutes wondering if I had somehow been hacked, then Read More

Los Alamos ScienceFest Announces 2024 Dates, Opens Registration For Several Events

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MainStreet & Creative District News:

Los Alamos MainStreet and Creative District have announced that Los Alamos ScienceFest 2024: Creative Energy, will run July 12-16 around Los Alamos County and feature a variety of workshops, lectures, interactive science activities and more.

Registration for Exhibitor and Vendor participation in this multi-day festival has opened and includes the most well-known event of the series, Discovery Day. This year Discovery Day is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at Ashley Pond Park. It features hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Read More

NNSA Co-Hosts International Symposium On Insider Threat Mitigation In Brussels

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NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby gestures during a panel discussion at the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation, March 5, 2024. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Belgian Federal Agency on Nuclear Control (FANC) co-hosted the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, Belgium March 5-7.

The theme of the symposium was “Expect the Unexpected: Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches to Insider Threat Mitigation,” and it showcased how Read More

Five New Mexico Companies Awarded $1M+ Federal Grants For Climate Tech Development

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EDD News:

SANTA FE — Five New Mexico small businesses have been awarded grants of over a million dollars each from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science to further technology innovation and commercialization in climate tech, New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) Acting Cabinet Secretary Mark Roper announced today.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants are competitive federal grants that support small businesses engaged in research and development with a potential for commercialization. The DOE recently Read More

LANL: Correcting Old Space-Physics Error For Safer Satellites

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The Van Allen radiation belts provide a natural analogue to artificial radiation belts that could occur after a high-altitude nuclear explosion. In this image, the red lines circling Earth is an artificial belt of high intensity, and the yellow regions are the natural belts; LEO/MEO/GEO refer to low-Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Correcting 50-year-old errors in the math used to understand how electromagnetic waves scatter electrons trapped in Earth’s magnetic fields will lead to better protection for technology in space.

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N3B Performs Robust Sampling, Monitoring To Drive Legacy Waste Cleanup At Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Groundwater monitoring studies began in 1945 at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Today, workers collect nearly 2,300 groundwater samples annually. The groundwater samples are collected from a network of more than 200 monitoring wells located on LANL, Pueblo de San Ildefonso, Los Alamos County and Santa Fe County property. The sampling helps ensure water drawn for human consumption meets all federal and state drinking water standards. Courtesy/N3B

The low-head weir pictured is one of many storm water controls that help prevent contaminated sediment from being transported downstream. Read More

Catch Of The Week: Copy And Paste Facebook Scams

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Nothing goes viral quicker than a scam, and this one has been popping up in my Facebook feed once again, so time to break it down…

The copy paste Facebook scam is one of those unkillable, zombie scams that just won’t die.

The post follows a similar pattern to the one below:

This and similar hoaxes have been spreading for over a decade, so you’ve probably seen it, maybe you’ve even shared it.

At best this is a hoax, at worst a scam. Nothing will “upgrade the system” to display more of your friends’ activity, and nothing will remove those Read More