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Hillsboro proposes limiting new data centers to just 30 acres, down from thousands. The proposal includes a 1,000-foot buffer between new data centers and schools.
The Pentagon data breach exposed 2.76 million Social Security numbers and military records, raising long-term identity theft concerns for veterans.
Kodiak AI plans to haul IKEA freight on Texas highways with no one in the cab, raising urgent cybersecurity and safety questions for drivers.
Apple Intelligence in iOS 27 adds Extend and Reframe tools to Photos, letting iPhones generate new background areas beyond your original borders.
Microsoft's X account was hijacked to promote a crypto pump-and-dump scheme, exposing its more than 13 million followers to a scam campaign.
Scammers can combine your name, phone number and address with data breach details to attempt SIM swaps, phishing and even identity theft schemes.
ChatGPT Work, Meta Muse and Gemini Spark can monitor flight prices, sort your email inbox and track important deadlines, but savvy users start small.
“He obviously doesn’t understand how AI works,” said Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a cancer specialist and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anthropic notified the Philadelphia Police Department of the incident and later published a report describing what happened.
Newly shared research from Tech Against Terrorism shows that three in five AI models failed their terrorism safety test.
OpenAI responded to researchers' claims that their dismissal will make safety workers fearful to raise concerns.
According to the DOJ, Korniev ran an international group that recruited over 15,000 "mules" in the U.S. to launder more than $10 million in stolen funds.
