Indonesia says its giant sea wall will stop flooding. Is this climate adaptation or a costly folly?

Indonesia plans to build a "giant sea wall," more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java's north coast from rising sea levels.
IEEE

Sustainable Urban Flood Mitigation Using Smart Sensors and Autonomous Drainage Mechanism

Abstract: Urban flooding remains a critical challenge, exacerbated by inadequate drainage systems and the lack of timely early warning mechanisms. This paper presents a sustainable urban flood ...
Devdiscourse

WMO holds technical workshop on flood early warning systems across Nile Basin

According to organizers, the meeting marked an important transition from technical system design toward operational ...
Inside Higher Ed

Princeton Introduces Proctoring, Changing Century-Old Honor Code

Princeton University’s faculty voted this week to proctor all in-person exams, fundamentally altering a 133-year-old honor system that has relied on students to monitor for and report cheating. But it ...
The Alpena News

Federal, state, and local officials begin flood damage assessments

News photo by Josh Jambor Flooding near the intersection of Princeton Avenue and St. Onge Street on April 15 flooded roads, yards, and many people’s basements. Now, federal, state, and local officials ...
Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia is planning to use new flood monitoring technology in Eastwick and other neighborhoods

Block captain Brenda Whitfield, 78, barely contained her emotion as new flood monitoring technology was unveiled Saturday morning in the Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia. The longtime ...
Futurism

Amazon Pushed Its Employees to Use Its In-House AI Coding Tool, But They Wouldn’t Stop Asking for Claude

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In ...
Wired

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet. Security researcher ...
WHBL

Manitowoc County Included in Flood Damage Assessments by Wisconsin Dept. of Emergency Management

The Wisconsin Department of Emergency Management has begun assessing damages that resulted from severe storms and flooding last month. Federal, state and local officials are conducting the joint ...
CNET

I Resurrected My Favorite Childhood Games Using Gemini Vibe Coding

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
news10nbc

Lakeshore communities use sandbags, pumps, and drones as flood stage gets nearer

WEBSTER, N.Y. — With Lake Ontario expected to get near its flood stage later this week, lakeshore communities are preparing for the worst. News10NBC has been tracking how communities in Greece, ...