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News Tipoffs - Massachusetts Editors Newsletter for Monday February 16, 2026 ( 3 items )  

Fairfax Water Deputy General Manager Dewhirst Testifies Before Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following written testimony by Scott Dewhirst, deputy general manager of engineering and technology at Fairfax Water, and a board member of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center, on behalf of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, from a Feb. 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Identifying and Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges to Protect America's Water Infrastructure": * * * Chairman Capito, R  more

Harvard Medical School Research Shines Light On How Cytokines Manage Immune Response
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a set of tools that allow researchers to identify and track cells responding to immune signaling molecules known as cytokines, offering insight into previously unseen aspects of immune communication. The findings, published Jan. 7 in Cell, describe a technology called cytokine cellular locating platforms, or CyCLoPs. The system enables scientists to tag cells that receive specific cytokine  more

Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Ranking Member Whitehouse Issues Opening Remarks at Hearing on Water Infrastructure
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following opening remarks from a Feb. 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Identifying and Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges to Protect America's Water Infrastructure": * * * Thank you, Chair Capito, for convening us on another important topic and to the witnesses for taking time to be here. Cybercrime and cyberwarfare are realities of the 21st century and   more