"Ultrasound can also be used to stimulate neurons. When multiple beams are focused on one spot, the waves change the pressure around the neurons, altering their firing rate."
Reminds me of the Expanse where a magnets were used to inhibit empathy in humans...
Key point:
“It’s a voluntary program,” Emmett Romine, vice president of customer solutions and innovation at Xcel, told local news station KMGH-TV. “Let’s remember that this is something that customers choose to be a part of based on the incentives.”
This is fairly common with other utilities as well, my local utility did the same thing a few years ago.
Also read the advisory - the issue is not with them - it's with the legacy prescription transfer systems they hook into. That is something they cannot hire someone to pentest without getting all of their competitors to agree.