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The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. "Unlike traditional ...

A sprawling $25 billion data center campus is set to break ground in north central West Texas, as the state's power grid continues to feel the strain of the rise of AI. Vantage Data Centers announced ...

People die but their data may endure, which troubles legal scholar Victoria Haneman. The emergence of generative AI means a person's digital presence can be recreated and revived, even if they or ...

Security researcher finds unsecured 38GB database containing 10,820 records Names, postal addresses, and more were leaked to the open internet The archive, owned by IMDataCenter is now shut down ...

A group of Chinese scientists has created powerful new tools that allow them to edit large chunks of DNA with incredible accuracy—and without leaving any trace. Using a mix of advanced protein design, ...

The United Nations, governments and aid agencies are scrambling to save one of the world’s largest public-health databases from extinction. In February, the US government cut all funding for the ...

Spring-cleaning season is almost done, and it is time to finally get rid of that old computer. But be very careful before you sell, give away or recycle it. You could be handing over sensitive ...

If you're buying a used laptop or getting rid of your old one, you'll want to know how to factory reset it to erase all previous information and make it start like new again. Managing Editor Josh ...

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...