The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
Reuters

Italy closes Google probe over unfair use of personal data after remedies adopted

MILAN, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Italy's competition authority said on Friday it had closed a probe it had launched last year over Google's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab alleged unfair commercial practices in the ...
GitHub

GitHub - sfomuseum/WallLabel: Swift package for deriving structured data for museum wall label text using on-device machine learning (large language) models.

This is a Swift package for deriving structured data for museum wall label text using on-device machine learning (large language) models. It was extracted from the sfomuseum/Registrar package in order ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

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 ...
Phoenix New Times

Phoenix data center water use could jump 900% in 6 years, study says

Quietly but quickly, Phoenix has become one of the nation’s hotspots for a booming economic and technological phenomenon of late-stage capitalism: data centers – the boxy, sprawling farms of wire and ...
SiliconANGLE

CrowdStrike’s Enterprise Graph aims to redefine AI-era security

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s Enterprise Graph solution is the company’s latest defense against cyberattacks fueled by agentic artificial intelligence. The innovation is part of the company’s new ...
STAT

Lilly will let small biotechs use its AI models at no cost

Eli Lilly has developed artificial intelligence models that can help predict the behavior of potential drug candidates, based on the data the drugmaker has collected over the last two decades and at ...
Fast Company

Data centers use massive energy and water. Here’s how to build them better

In late July, the Trump administration released its long-awaited AI Action Plan, which includes steps to cut environmental requirements and streamline permitting policies to make it easier to build ...
Sacramento Bee

SMUD shared customer data with police, prompting privacy, racism concerns

Alfonso Nguyen, who is part of a lawsuit claiming SMUD illegally shared energy usage data with law enforcement, at his home near Elk Grove earlier this month. Nguyen has an electric wheelchair that ...