If you're not already following @SeanCasten can I ask you to do it?

He is one of very few politicians who takes Mastodon seriously as a platform of communication - and he does a bang-on job of it.

Give him a hand, a follow and some extra reach, please.

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

Being able to store excess solar until winter will be gamechanger!

Norwegian energy storage scale-up Photoncycle has raised €15M to accelerate the commercial rollout of its seasonal solid-state hydrogen-based energy storage system in Denmark and the Netherlands.
https://www.photoncycle.com/en/news/photoncycle-raises-eur15m-to-bring-seasonal-energy-storage-to-the-netherlands-ahead-of-2027-net/

RE: https://mastodon.green/@solar_chase/115405274671180986

Small victories: BNEF has changed its definition of long-duration storage to this! Thank you BNEF's LDES queen Yiyi Zhou.

Microsoft bought 93% of all the carbon removal credits globally last year. This is absurd, and no way to determine which method might actually work and scale. Carbon dioxide removal research and development should be government-funded and government-led.

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/microsoft-is-the-carbon-removal-market/