From oilfield water to battery power: Midland opens first U.S. Lithium Carbonate Facility in decades

A first-of-its-kind lithium carbonate facility opened in Midland Friday, turning produced water from the Permian Basin into a ...

Want local vibe coding? This AI stack replaces Claude Code and Codex - and it's free

And then there's agentic AI coding. When a tool can help you do four years of product development in four days, the impact is world-changing. While vibe coding has its detractors (for good reason), AI ...
IEEE

Write-Once, Prove-Once: A Reusable Framework for Secure Boot Verification in Rocq

Abstract: Secure boot is a fundamental mechanism for establishing a hardware-rooted chain of trust in modern computing systems. While formal verification using interactive theorem provers like Rocq ...
The Wenatchee World

Write on the River outlines winter, spring programming for local writers

January’s email newsletter from Write on the River highlights upcoming programming aimed at supporting local writers, a mission the organization has pursued since 2005. An email Q&A with Write on the ...
Chicago Tribune

Illinois lawmakers return to Capitol facing $2.2B budget gap while pushing election-year affordability message

SPRINGFIELD — In an election-year General Assembly session where what won’t pass will likely be as telling as what might, Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol facing a familiar but narrowing path: ...