Cooling Tower
Coverage of Cooling Tower in the Nexus archive.
- Legionnaires’ disease outbreak: Sixth person dies of the illness on Upper East Side
A sixth person has died from Legionnaires’ disease in an outbreak on New York City’s Upper East Side, with 90 cases confirmed since July 2. Health officials attribute the outbreak to a water-cooling tower with live Legionella bacteria but caution the link is not definitive. The affected area is contained to ZIP codes 10028, 10128, and 10075, and all 59 positive cooling towers have been disinfected.
- GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
The UK's AI Security Institute found that OpenAI's GPT-5.5 matches Anthropic's Mythos Preview in cybersecurity performance, with both models achieving similar success rates in Capture the Flag challenges and a new data extraction test. However, both failed a more complex power plant control simulation.