Exposed Elasticsearch cluster leaked 8.7 billion records of Chinese individuals and businesses Data included PII, plaintext passwords, and corporate registration details Cluster likely run by data ...

ShinyHunters breached Panera Bread, stealing 14 million records of customer data Actual impact closer to 5.1 million users, with unique emails, names, phone numbers, and addresses exposed Attack tied ...

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This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs prefer to talk of possibilities rather than obstacles, and of vast revenue opportunities to be seized through sheer force of will. That defiant optimism now faces the ...

Only in America are electricity regulators elected by popular vote. Ten states do so, and, unsurprisingly, the campaigns usually win little attention. The upcoming election for two seats on Georgia’s ...

Drive in almost any direction from almost any American city, and soon enough you’ll arrive at a data center—a giant white box rising from graded earth, flanked by generators and fenced like a prison ...

U.S. medical imaging provider SimonMed Imaging is notifying more than 1.2 million individuals of a data breach that exposed their sensitive information. SimonMed Imaging is an outpatient medical ...

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...