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GeoOutageBench introduces a benchmark for ambiguity-aware, ontology-grounded geospatiotemporal knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) that integrates multimodal data (outage records, remote sensing, weather, storm and power events) to support power outage and resilience analysis, presented at SIGSPATIAL '26.
OutageDiT is a generative foundation model for power outage forecasting that uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture to generate seven-day outage trajectories, improving forecast accuracy and enabling zero-shot transfer to new regions.
A user shares how their OpenClaw-based AI agent named Sam autonomously handled a power outage by coordinating with Tesla Powerwalls, monitoring energy usage, and alerting family members to adjust consumption.
A comprehensive guide from WIRED on assembling an emergency kit for cars or go-bags, covering essential gear like water filters, flashlights, power banks, and air quality monitors to prepare for wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other disasters.
New 'kill switch' laws like SB6 allow local governments to remotely cut electricity to high-density racks during power spikes, raising concerns about the reliability of remote computing and prompting calls for local-first backups.