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DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon

DuckDB founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt join AWS as DuckLabs is acquired; DuckDB and DuckLake remain open source under the DuckDB Foundation.

Amazon Web Services hired DuckDB creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt through the acquisition of DuckLabs, the bootstrapped 30-plus-person Amsterdam company behind the in-process analytical database downloaded more than a million times a day. DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack remain MIT-licensed open source under the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation, which holds the IP and continues stewardship; the team stays in Amsterdam with the founders keeping technical leadership. The Foundation will add a technical advisory board and open the extension stack so extensions signed by other developers and organizations run in DuckDB.

Help Net SecuritySep 2, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoOther

A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

Risk modeling suggests a few hundred compromised grid-scale batteries dispatched through cloud optimizers could trigger blackouts in Texas or Great Britain.

Centrii analysis estimates 1,500 compromised one-megawatt units (5.4% of ERCOT's ~28 GW fleet) or 400 units (about 29% of Great Britain's ~1,400-unit fleet) could destabilize the grids, with modeled damage of $12-65 billion in Texas and a national blackout costing £2-10 billion in Britain. The study puts the probability of a major attack affecting at least one million people by 2031 at 92.1%, dropping to 61.4% with IEC 62443 certification and quarterly drills, based on 10,000 Monte Carlo runs. Because hostile battery swings are phased like legitimate frequency response, control rooms would see nothing unusual; Centrii proposes hunting for a reverse-governor signature where inverter output feeds oscillations. Spain's April 2025 blackout took an expert panel until March 2026 to rule out cyberattack, partly because key plants had no recordings.

Help Net SecuritySep 2, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoResearch

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