Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation ...
The Source Weekly

City of Bend Adopts Residential Wildfire Mitigation Building Code, Effective May 15

The Bend City Council has adopted Section R327 of the Oregon Residential Specialty Code, establishing home‑hardening ...

Skyscraper Hits New Milestone As Tallest Residential Building South of NYC

Sharing the news of the record set by Cipriani Residences Miami as an exclusive first with Newsweek, a spokesperson for the ...
Marketplace

California buildings must limit "embodied carbon." Here's what that means

California became the first state to regulate embodied carbon in its building code. That’s changing the construction industry ...

Bastrop repeals B3 code, adopts new development regulations

The Bastrop City Council repeals, replaces its Building Block Code, ending the yearlong process of reworking development ...
Fast Company

The building code rule that lets Seattle turn forgotten lots into housing

Fire officials and pro-density urbanists are often at loggerheads. This is especially evident in notoriously car-centric Los Angeles, where a firefighters’ union spent six figures opposing active ...
Governing

Building and Fire Safety Codes Save Lives. Why Are States Weakening Them?

Firefighters respond to a five-alarm fire in a row of apartment buildings in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 6. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/TNS) A New Year’s celebration in the Swiss Alps turned ...
The Bulletin

Bend moves toward wildfire building codes

Bend may be the next city in Oregon to require home builders to use fire-resistant materials in new construction. The Bend City Council mostly supported that prospect in a work session last week, and ...
Daily Journal

Tupelo updates building, fire codes to new standard

TUPELO — Ahead of updating the city’s guiding documents and plans, Tupelo officials have agreed to revise its fire prevention and protection rules alongside its building regulations. The Tupelo City ...