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 ...
InfoQ

MySQL AI Introduced for Enterprise Edition

Oracle has recently announced MySQL AI, a new set of AI-powered capabilities available exclusively in the MySQL Enterprise edition, targeting analytics and AI workloads in large deployments. Concerns ...
Bleeping Computer

Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a ...
The New York Times

Reading Skills of 12th Graders Hit a New Low

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...
The Conversation

We decoded the oldest genetic data from an Egyptian, a man buried around 4,500 years ago – what it told us

Adeline Morez Jacobs does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...
New York Post

Trump’s return-to-office mandate is working — with employees in DC twice as likely to work on-site

WASHINGTON — Civil servants are twice as likely to head into the office while their compatriots work from home, according to new data — and it is all thanks to President Trump. Trump’s directive ...
Bleeping Computer

Jaguar Land Rover confirms data theft after recent cyberattack

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) confirmed today that attackers also stole "some data" during a recent cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems and instruct staff not to report to work. JRL functions as ...
LancasterOnline

Pa. lawmakers look underground for nuclear alternative to cool data centers

As the number of data centers in Pennsylvania soars, it’s nuclear energy, more than any other source, that has dominated conversations about how to produce the electricity needed to cool the ...
The Washington Post

Social Security whistleblower quits after saying Americans’ data was compromised

The agency’s chief data officer said the U.S. DOGE Service had uploaded personal information for more than 300 million people to the digital cloud. A Social Security Administration official ...
wsbt

Michigan City passes tax abatements for proposed data center

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WSBT) — There has been a data center controversy in Michigan City. READ MORE: Michigan City Council looking at new project plans for potential data center READ MORE: Public ...
Houston Chronicle

Controversial data center proposal for College Station to be voted on Thursday

A 600 megawatt data center could be planted in College Station, Texas – but some community members are pushing back against the corresponding land sale. The College Station City Council on Thursday ...