Merchants have become increasingly skilled at using consumers’ personal data, including their online shopping habits and smartphone use, to calculate an individual’s tolerance for higher prices. Now ...
Internal AI access can create compliance and privacy risks. Workspace admins can turn off intelligence sources. Google gives Gemini access to Workspace data by default. I have long accepted one ...
Atlanta-based Flock Safety is making company changes following a slew of police misconduct arrests and public controversy surrounding license plate reader cameras. As many as two dozen law enforcement ...
Tech CDS on the rise again this week Oracle CDS trade around 200 bps, above Nvidia at 78 bps and Meta near 93 bps Tech accounted for nearly $650 million of second-quarter corporate CDS trading, DTCC ...
AI search is rapidly becoming the default, whether users like it or not. In just a year’s time, Google’s AI-generated answers in search, known as AI Overviews, have gone from appearing in 15% of ...
Data centers for AI and other digital use cases are consuming increasing amounts of energy and water, complicating the jobs of policymakers and community planners looking to protect residents’ health ...
Microsoft has announced that passkeys will become the default authentication method for the Entra ID enterprise identity service starting September 2026. Passkeys will be enabled automatically for ...
As Alabama communities weigh proposals for new data centers, concerns about water consumption have become a flashpoint. Yet another major water user often escapes scrutiny: golf courses. A comparison ...
As a dangerous heat wave bakes major East Coast cities, Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed data centers in the mid-Atlantic this week to use their backup power supplies instead of using ...
A member of the public wears a "Don't data center my Texas" pin on the back of their hat while waiting for the Natural Resource Committee to convene on June 23, 2026. Data centers need a lot of water ...
The data center, called Project Kilby, is expected to consume nearly 2.7 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to about 2 million homes. A majority of the electricity will come from large gas turbines ...
If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...