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Cybersecurity experts say incidents had minimal effect but may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threat

Heat stress and rising temperatures are affecting worker safety and health, as well as productivity, enterprises, and the wider economy in Ethiopia, Ghana, Lebanon, the Maldives, Senegal and Sri Lanka, new multi-country studies from the International Labour Organization have found.

Heat pump technology hasn’t changed much since the 1850s, but climate tech startup Pascal thinks it’s cracked the code. The company just unveiled a novel approach using a sponge-like material that promises to deliver 20% efficiency gains over conventional refrigerant systems. With buildings accounting for nearly 40% of global energy consumption, Pascal’s innovation couldn’t come…

An annual emissions factor says very little about the coldest mornings of the year, and those are the hours when an electrified building leans hardest on the grid. Companies swapping boilers for heat pumps are now planning around exactly that gap, while the rules for counting it are being rewritten.

Ranchi: Increasing heat coupled with frequent heatwaves is taking a toll on human productivity in Jharkhand. A recent study by the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED), an organisation working in the environmental and energy sectors, has pointed out that extreme heat is causing a significant decline in worker efficiency, resulting in significant losses…

Workers in the ironing and finishing segments of Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) sector endure extreme environmental hazards inside factories, spending over three-quarters of their working days under high or severe heat stress during an expanding seven-month heat season, a new study has found.

Hot water and heating issues linger in parts of Michigan State University in East Lansing, which continues to experience utility problems after a power plant failure over the weekend. 

[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] The race to build AI agents aimed at individual users is heating up. Meta has released its AI assistant app Muse for Mac. The Mac version of Muse connects to files, messages, calendars, notes and mail so users can work within each default app.

The 2026 heatwave in Europe could cost billions, economists say. Crops, households and workers’ productivity are all at risk.

An Austrian research group has developed an integrated optimization framework for heat pump investment planning that explicitly accounts for nonlinear part-load efficiency. The approach recognizes that heat pump efficiency varies with operating load, rather than remaining constant, depending on how much of the system’s total capacity is being used at a given time. This enables…