Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

ACRL announces the publication of Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and ...

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol ...

Alloy is bringing data management to the robotics industry

Australia-based Alloy thinks it can help robotics firms with their data problem: The startup is building data infrastructure ...
New York Post

Mamdani means to ax the NYPD’s gang database — and to boost crimes that hit minorities most

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference in New York City, September 3, 2025. REUTERS NYPD boss Jessica Tisch and her rank and file keep scoring impressive wins ...
Chicago Tribune

Illinois election officials decline to give Justice Department sensitive voter data

Illinois election officials late Tuesday told President Donald Trump’s Justice Department the state would not comply with the federal agency’s demand for sensitive data on the state’s roughly 8.3 ...
Wall Street Journal

Data Centers That Don’t Exist Yet Are Already Haunting the Grid

Data centers are desperate to connect to the U.S. electric grid. What remains fuzzy is how many will ultimately be built and how much electricity they will require. U.S. utilities are reporting a ...
USA Today

DOGE put Social Security data of millions of Americans at risk, whistleblower says

WASHINGTON ― Personal information of more than 300 million Americans is at risk of being leaked or hacked after employees of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a sensitive Social ...
The Hill

Trump administration restores public spending data after legal fight

The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court. Public access to the data was ...
Lifehacker

You Should Remove Your Info From the Rebooted National Public Data Site

National Public Data was the target of a massive hack in early 2024, which led to billions of records being leaked. The site has since returned under new ownership. The site now allows you to search ...
PC Magazine

Site Behind Major SSN Leak Returns With Detailed Data on Millions: How to Opt Out

National Public Data is back with new owners, joining the ranks of other creepy, people-finding services. Here's how to get your profile removed from the site. When he's not battling bugs and robots ...
SDxCentral

Oracle unveils distributed database to boost agentic AI, data sovereignty

Oracle has unveiled its latest database offering it claims will enhance agentic AI deployments and help with data sovereignty demands. The Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale ...
American Banker

The CFPB intends to start writing a new data-sharing rule

Two months after vowing to kill the previous administration's rule on the sharing of customer data between banks and fintechs, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is revisiting the issue. The ...