Australia’s data centre boom risks driving up the cost of electricity and derailing emissions targets unless governments force operators and their global tech customers to directly fund new renewable ...

The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks. "As of Spring 2026, SRG actors use a social ...

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...

The Journal spoke with Benjamin Lee, an electrical- and systems-engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of space-based computing. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images; ...

Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity back to big tech companies, in some cases sending more data than state ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – State lawmakers advanced a bill aimed at regulating data centers in South Carolina. It’s a topic that has been much debated, including in the Lowcountry. The state senate’s ...

Everyone is using generative artificial intelligence. Every industry, from film and marketing to cybersecurity and manufacturing, has quickly integrated AI into its tech stack. But AI’s massive power ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

Researchers have developed a technology to invisibly transmit information disguised as background thermal radiation. Using a phenomenon called "negative light," they transferred 100 kilobits of data ...