LUGANO, Suiza–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Investigar significa invertir en el futuro. Este es el principio que guía el programa de IBSA Foundation Fellowships, que desde hace más de una década apoya a investigadores menores de 40 años provenientes de universidades e instituciones de investigación de todo el mundo. El programa otorga becas para promover proyectos innovadores y con potencial disruptivo en campos científicos poco explorados; un éxito en constante crecimiento, confirmado también por la edici
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LUGANO, Svizzera–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fare ricerca significa investire nel futuro. È questo il principio che guida da oltre 10 anni le IBSA Foundation Fellowship. Nato per sostenere giovani ricercatori sotto i 40 anni provenienti da università e istituti di tutto il monado, il progetto offre borse di studio per promuovere ricerche innovative e potenzialmente rivoluzionarie in ambiti scientifici ancora poco esplorati. Un successo in costante crescita, confermato anche dall’edizione 2024, che ha seg
LUGANO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #IBSA–Research means investing in the future. This is the guiding principle behind the IBSA Foundation Fellowships programme, which for over a decade has supported talented researchers under 40 from universities and research institutions around the world. The programme awards grants to promote innovative and potentially groundbreaking projects in lesser-explored scientific fields; a constantly growing success, also confirmed by the 2024 edition, which marked a ne
LUGANO, Suisse–(BUSINESS WIRE)–La recherche, c’est investir dans l’avenir. Tel est le principe directeur des IBSA Foundation Fellowship qui, depuis plus d’une décennie, soutiennent des chercheurs talentueux de moins de 40 ans provenant d’universités et d’établissements de recherche du monde entier. Le programme octroie des subventions pour promouvoir des projets innovants et potentiellement novateurs dans des domaines scientifiques moins explorés. Un succès toujours croissant, également confi
LUGANO, Schweiz–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Forschung bedeutet, in die Zukunft zu investieren. Dies ist das Leitprinzip des IBSA Foundation Fellowships-Programms, das seit über einem Jahrzehnt talentierte Forscher unter 40 Jahren aus Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen auf der ganzen Welt unterstützt. Das Programm vergibt Fördermittel zur Förderung innovativer und potenziell bahnbrechender Projekte in weniger erforschten wissenschaftlichen Bereichen. Der stetig wachsende Erfolg was auch die Ausgabe
LUGANO, Zwitserland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Onderzoek betekent in de toekomst investeren. Dit principe is de leidraad achter het IBSA Foundation Fellowships-programma, dat al meer dan een decennium getalenteerde onderzoekers jonger dan 40 jaar uit universiteiten en onderzoeksinstellingen van over de hele wereld steunt. Deze bekendmaking is officieel geldend in de originele brontaal. Vertalingen zijn slechts als leeshulp bedoeld en moeten worden vergeleken met de tekst in de brontaal, die als enige re
Call Congress today and tell your Senators to keep America’s farming families strong and rural communities resilient by preserving the investment tax credits.
BOSTON, May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lightstar reaffirms its unwavering commitment to America’s farming families as federal proposals threaten to undermine a vital farm viability and succession planning tool for America’s farmers – the long-standing technology neutral investment tax credit (ITC).
If the US wants to ensure a secure American energy pipeline – the Senate must safeguard current solar investments.
Recent language passed by the House on Thursday May 22, including a 60-day construction requirement, would kill hundreds of solar projects, which many farming families rely on for retirement and financial independence. This move jeopardizes the financial stability and future of rural communities across the nation, undermining a proven model that supports productive agriculture and energy independence.
“Our farmers rely on the financial stability of solar projects to keep their land productive, diversify their income, and future-proof their businesses against growing economic uncertainties,” said Lucy Bullock-Sieger, Chief Strategy Officer at Lightstar. “Stripping the ITCs away is more than policy change. It’s a direct threat to American livelihoods, our food system, and energy security. Lightstar stands united with our landowners across the country — do not jeopardize their futures.”
For years, the ITCs have empowered family farms to adopt agrivoltaics, a dual-use agricultural-solar model that allows continued farming while generating local renewable energy. This innovation enables farmers to steward their land, weather unpredictable markets, and support new generations in farming, all while delivering over $600 billion in private investment and supporting 270,000 jobs nationwide. The ITCs have a demonstrated 400% return, projected to expand the U.S. economy by $1.9 trillion over the next decade, according to the American Clean Power Association.
Tom Brown, CEO of Lightstar, emphasized, “If the United States wants to ensure a secure American energy pipeline – the Senate must safeguard current solar investments which have already drawn down significant capital expenses. Abruptly cutting off the investment tax credits undermines the stability of a high-performing industry, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in private investment.”
Lightstar’s mission is rooted in supporting rural property rights, fostering long-term partnerships, and promoting responsible land use. Lightstar is committed to designing solar projects that operate in harmony with agricultural activity, ensuring that land remains in agricultural operation through innovative agrivoltaics. Without the investment tax credit these projects cannot move forward.
“The Senate must act to protect responsible solar and block the House ITC provisions,” added Bullock-Sieger. “Canceling the investment tax credit in 2025 means canceling the futures of thousands of farming families and jeopardizing our energy security as a nation. We need more food and energy, not less – and farming families should be able to deliver both for America.”
Tell Congress to keep American Energy Incentives in place for America’s farmers. Act now! You can support America’s farming families, visit:
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Lightstar develops, builds, and operates community solar projects that deliver lasting benefits for landowners, their land, and local communities. With a focus on environmental stewardship and long-term partnerships, Lightstar empowers America’s rural families to thrive in a changing world while protecting the legacy and productivity of their land.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ —
CALL TO ACTION:
Horizons NYC is actively seeking referrals of rising kindergarten and first-grade students who are struggling in school with suspected learning disabilities and qualify for free or reduced lunch. Families, schools, and community organizations are encouraged to contact Macy Stockton, Executive Director, at mstockton@horizonsnewyorkcity.org, or visit horizonsnewyorkcity.org/horizons-gateway to learn more.
First-of-Its-Kind Summer Program Launches for Struggling Young Learners in NYC
The Gateway School and Horizons New York City are proud to announce the launch of Horizons NYC at The Gateway School—a first-of-its-kind summer program offering early, tuition-free intervention for children from systemically under-resourced communities who are struggling in school with suspected language-based learning disabilities.
This groundbreaking initiative is the first to pair a nationally recognized summer enrichment model with the deep expertise of a school that specializes in language-based learning differences. It is designed to reach students before formal diagnoses are typically made, when the proper support can make the most significant impact.
Launching this summer for rising kindergarten and first-grade students, the program will grow over time to serve grades K–8. Combining Gateway’s 60 years of experience in specialized education with Horizons NYC’s proven out-of-school model, it delivers critical literacy instruction and social-emotional support during a vulnerable time for young learners.
“This is a truly unique collaboration with the potential to change lives,” said Joseph Auteberry, Gateway educator and Program Director. “We’re meeting students at the moment they begin to struggle and offering the tools and confidence they need to succeed.”
The initiative has drawn strong support from education leaders. Former NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña supports the program for providing learning opportunities to students who may not otherwise have access, helping to change the trajectory of their lives and create generational impact for families.
Assembly member Robert C. Carroll ’97, a Gateway alumnus and author of the Dyslexia Task Force Act, also champions the effort as a model for literacy equity and early intervention.
To refer a student or learn more, visit: https://www.horizonsnewyorkcity.org/horizons-gateway
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 27, 2025 /3BL/ – Tetra Pak has received the Environmental Initiatives Award at the 2025 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards for its Approach to Nature framework. The SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement and Leadership) Award recognises Tetra Pak’s framework as an industry-leading example of how major companies can leverage their expertise to guide and collaborate with partners throughout the value chain to realise their own sustainability goals and address regulatory requirements.
Tetra Pak launched its comprehensive Approach to Nature framework in 2024 to address nature-related impacts across the value chain. This ambitious approach is built upon concrete actions and more than 20 measurable targets and practical actions, defining the company’s contribution to halting and reversing nature loss, supporting the restoration of ecosystems and enhancing water security.
As well as internal goals and actions, the framework also addresses supplier and customer nature-related impacts, including those connected to packaging end-of-life.
Significant progress has already been made against the framework. In its own operations, Tetra Pak aims to reduce total water withdrawal by 35% by 2030 (from a 2019 baseline). Tetra Pak’s Kunshan site in China is an example of success in this regard, with rainwater harvesting implemented to irrigate over 6,000m² of green plants, cutting annual water use by more than 120 tonnes.1
Francesca Priora, Vice President, Climate & Nature, Tetra Pak comments: “We are honoured to accept this award from SEAL Awards for our Approach to Nature framework. This recognition highlights our commitment to reversing and halting nature loss by reducing the negative impacts of our value chain on nature and supporting landscape restoration.
“We are proud to collaborate with customers, suppliers and partners on our journey to restore ecosystems and improve water resilience. Approach to Nature is one of the ways we are working together to transform food systems to ensure a more secure, resilient and sustainable future for all.”
The framework has also been recognised by ‘It’s Now for Nature’, a joint global campaign led by Business for Nature – a coalition that brings together more than 100 influential partner organisations and forward-thinking companies to “drive credible business action and policy ambition to achieve a nature-positive economy for all by 2030”.2
Find out more about the SEAL Awards, alongside a full list of winners.
Discover more about Approach to Nature, including quantitative targets and practical actions.
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As we move into May, my garden in Austin Texas is at its best, the Japanese Maple is flourishing, and the roses and lantana are giving pops of color. The garden benefits from the mild temperatures and gentler spring conditions to allow plants to establish strong roots before the summer heat arrives.
I find myself wondering if there’s an AI tool that would help me keep some of my more challenging plants alive before the weather machine turns to “broil”. This takes me back to my day job, which includes working with energy grid operators to help build the strong roots of cyber security.
April has been an eventful month for the world’s energy grids, let’s look at some of the key developments.
In the U.S., the House Committee on Energy and Commerce heard from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the impact and reliance of AI on the energy grid. Schmidt told Congress “Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 9 percent of total generation, an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030, this is at a scale I have never seen in my life in terms of energy planning.”
“If China comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting.”
AI’s dependence on the energy grid is clear and if the US cannot keep up with power needs, other countries like China could gain a competitive edge. The energy requirements of data centers are predicted to skyrocket, especially with more advanced and power-hungry systems on the way. The energy grid is being stretched beyond its limits and AI could push up energy prices and create shortages. The energy grid is essential to powering the boom in AI and makes it a prime target for threat actors seeking to destabilize AI leadership or dependent critical systems.
In April we also saw massive blackouts across Spain, Portugal and parts of France that halted public transportation, banking cashpoints and internet connectivity, in one of Europe’s biggest ever power system collapses. Spain, Europe’s fourth-largest economy had no electricity, Red Eléctrica de España, the grid operator, is working to figure out what led to this worst-case scenario, a system completely devoid of energy. Whatever the cause, it is an admonitory tale of the importance of a resilient energy grid.
Although some have ruled out cyberattacks as the cause of the recent blackouts, attacks in the sector are growing. Energy systems are increasingly dependent on IT at every stage of the supply chain-generation, transmission, and distribution- all of which must be protected. The need to strengthen grid security has become more urgent since the invasion of Ukraine.
Over the course of a series of blogs we will explore how Keysight is helping grid operators and manufacturers rise to the challenge of improving power generation and cybersecurity while maintaining agility and regulatory compliance. We will discuss the latest trends and how operators can stay ahead of attackers. You will see coverage of IoT, OT and device security, cloud, and network security, as well as the importance of resilient time in the energy grid.
In today’s blog we will focus on the increasing susceptibility of AI to the hidden threats in IoT/OT and devices in the energy sector.
AI’s demand for electricity
The world’s data centers are using ever more electricity, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that global electricity usage by data centers will double in just four years, increasing from 460 terawatt hours of electricity in 2022 to 1,000 terawatt hours annually by 2026. This demand is roughly equivalent to the total electricity consumption of Japan. With governments around the world announcing multi-billion-dollar investments in AI, data center electricity consumption is expected to grow at a rapid pace as AI applications begin to penetrate the market.
Goldman Sachs Research estimates that data center power demand will grow by 160% by 2030. Currently, data centers globally consume 1-2% of overall power, but this percentage will likely double to 3-4% by the end of the decade. The overall increase in data center power consumption from AI is expected to be roughly 200TWh/year between 2023 and 2028, with AI representing about 19% of total datacenter power demand.
This heightens the dependence as well as the risk profile of the energy systems that support the AI datacenters and applications, making them targets for cyberattack.
It is also worth highlighting the additional dependency on water consumption. Data centers use fresh mains water, rather than surface water, so that the pipes, pumps, and heat exchangers used to cool racks of servers do not get clogged up with contaminants. Microsoft’s global water use soared by 34% while it was developing its initial AI tools, and a data center cluster in Iowa used 6% of the district’s water supply in one month during the training of OpenAI’s GPT-4. Therefore, cyber-attacks impacting water supply to the datacenter operations may also be of concern.
The energy sector is a major target for cyberattack
The energy grid faces persistent threats from cyber criminals and hostile states such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea exploiting ransomware, AI, and advanced intrusion tools. State-linked cyber groups increasingly target industrial control systems pivotal to energy infrastructure. There are major areas of concern in the energy supply chain, where vulnerabilities exist in interconnected systems, for example GNSS and GPS for timing, and the targeting of subsea cables.
In 2021 the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware attack disabled its IT computer systems resulting in fuel shortages and panic buying in affected states. In 2022 a Russian attack on satellites knocked out communications and control of thousands of wind turbines in Ukraine. In 2023 the China-linked group, RedEcho, attacked India’s power sector during border tension.
According to the E-ISAC, Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the nation state actors targeting the US energy sector in 2024 included Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Lemon Sandstorm/UNC757, APT 29 – Midnight Blizzard and GRU Unit 29155.
Last year Volt Typhoon, a China state-sponsored threat actor, targeted energy, transportation, and water sectors in the US and Canada. Its campaigns affected industrial sectors including Electricity Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution. Chinese hackers were active in Massachusetts’ Littleton Electric Light & Water Departments (LELWD) for over 300 days without detection.
We have seen CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn (CARR) confirm attacks on US water and energy facilities. Hunt3r Kill3rs targeted internet exposed OT/ICS devices in the US, Europe, and Israel. And just in the last couple of days I saw a new headline about a cyberattack against a Canadian operator, Nova Scotia Power.
In addition to the IT-focused attacks such as Colonial Pipeline which have downstream impacts on industrial control systems (ICS), there has also been an increase in ICS-targeting malware intentionally designed for adverse effects on operational technology (OT) environments. FrostyGoop Malware is an ICS-specific malware tracked by Dragos. It interacts with ICS devices over Modbus TCP/502, a standard ICS protocol used worldwide. It is undetectable by common antivirus software and was used in Ukraine heating outages in 2024.
Legislation and proactive cyber security testing
Laws like the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations and EO 13636 require enhanced resilience in critical sectors, including energy. The cyberattacks in the US and elsewhere are why regulators like Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) are updating their requirements, to ensure power companies are preparing for the latest threats. FERC has begun to take steps to increase stricter cyber security controls for grid and power providers. FERC 887 and NERC CIP 003-9 are new regulations that impose stricter requirements on electric utilities for internal network security monitoring and remote access.
The costs of non-compliance can be significant. Back in 2019 NERC fined Duke Energy $10 million for cybersecurity failings relating to the CIP (critical infrastructure protection) compliance program.
How Keysight can help
With cyberattacks in the energy sector on the rise it is crucial to implement proactive security measures to safeguard your infrastructure and mitigate potential risks. It is important to validate new devices, networks, application workloads and traffic mixes. Our security testing solutions replicate your environment and support a wide range of protocols and applications with real-world test scenarios.
Keysight can help you to validate and refine your security posture, improving resilience to cyberattacks and ensuring adherence to cyber security requirements. To safeguard your infrastructure Keysight helps you in several ways including awareness and training, configuration management, incident response, risk assessment, security assessment, access control, identification, and authentication, as well as system and communications protection.
Let us explore further how Keysight can help you with device and IoT security.
Spotlight: Device and IoT security in the energy sector
As the energy sector becomes increasingly connected, communications networks will include both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks which open up additional attack vectors. Back in 2022, Starlink terminals were hacked using voltage fault injection and side channel attacks to gain access to the Starlink network.
Keysight can conduct security assessments of devices connected to the energy grid, including validation of Smart Meters to the relevant Common Criteria Protection Profile. We analyze the hardware (debug and test interfaces and memories), software design, secure boot process, OS (Linux, Android, RTOS), as well as application security and perform targeted reviews to understand the security of your device. We can also analyze the security of the chipsets by considering logical, fault injection and side-channel threats, as well as the immutable firmware on the chips and the overall architecture.
Upgrades, especially of production OT devices, can be very expensive. Do you really want to take a substation down because you need to upgrade the firmware to fix a security flaw? This is why it is so important to do extensive pre-deployment testing of smart inverters, relays, phasors, and other operational devices so you can fix as many problems as possible early. It is also important to maintain an SBOM of deployed devices so that you can get immediate notification if a vulnerability is discovered in a library utilized in a device’s firmware so that it can be remedied or mitigated before hackers can exploit it.
With a long history in the energy sector, Keysight is dedicated to safeguarding critical national energy systems. You can read more about how we keep energy grids safe on our Grid Modernization page.
Keysight is your partner for energy cyber security.