Blockchain analytics are becoming AI-powered: Here’s why it matters

Public blockchain data has always been sought after, but decoding it has been daunting. With AI-driven tools, blockchain ...
Albuquerque Journal

Doña Ana County’s Project Jupiter joins $500 billion Stargate AI initiative led by OpenAI, Oracle

Officials on Tuesday said that the Doña Ana County data center will be leased by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for 18 years, ...
The Conversation

AI’s ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency

Divya Mahajan owns shares in Google, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia. She receives funding from Google and AMD. Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it.
CBS News

Disney to pay $10 million to settle FTC lawsuit over collecting kids' data

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.
The Hill

Social Security’s chief data officer resigns, cites ‘culture of panic and dread’

Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges submitted a Friday resignation letter days after citing policy violations in a whistleblower report documenting the Department of Government ...
TwinCities.com

After Trump’s DOGE action, 300 million people’s Social Security data is at risk, whistleblower says

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

Columbia police unveil new transparency dashboard. Here's how to use it

The Columbia Police Department launched a new online tool allowing public access to crime statistics. Users can filter data by crime type, weapon type, location and date range. Future transparency ...
New York Post

How AI data centers are leading to big electricity bills in NY and NJ — and who’s being hit hardest

Summer always increases electricity bills, as more people use electricity for air conditioning. But there’s another issue popping up this year: Not AC, but AI. Households are now competing against ...
The Conversation

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Margaret Levenstein receives or has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Census Bureau. John Kubale receives funding from the National ...
PC Gamer

China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech

Hardware Nvidia claims H20 chips do 'not have backdoors' after reportedly being summoned by 'Beijing authorities' for a quick word Hardware 'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen ...
CSOonline

Flaws in a pair of Grafana plugins could hand over DevOps control

Users must configure updated settings in SQLite and Infinity plugins to defend against attackers gaining admin privileges on Grafana instances. Two now-patched critical flaws in Grafana’s plugin ...
USA Today

New data show the US's immigrant population declining dramatically. Is it true?

The country's immigrant population may have dropped by roughly 2 million people in the first six months of the year, according to new government data. The new data offer an early – if imperfect – ...