CNN

Trump has a new proposal to limit the public’s access to economic data

On an already head-spinning day of news for businesses and investors, the president lobbed a social media post into the mix that casually suggested regulators upend a fixture of Corporate American ...
The Conversation

AI’s ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency

Divya Mahajan owns shares in Google, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia. She receives funding from Google and AMD. Artificial intelligence is growing fast, and so are the number of computers that power it.
The Conversation

When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data

Nicole M. Bennett is affiliated with the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University. When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
9NEWS

Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims

DENVER — Flock Safety, the company operating license plate reading cameras across the United States and in dozens of Colorado municipalities, now admits federal immigration agents have direct access ...
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 ...
Engadget

Workday says hackers used social engineering to access personal data during a breach

Human resources technology company Workday has confirmed that a data breach has affected its third-party CRM platform. In a blog post announcing the breach, the company said that a social engineering ...
Forbes

Commonalities In The Disputes Over Data Access And Interchange Fees

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. One policy trend that has persisted this year is the introduction ...
9NEWS

Denver cuts off Loveland's access to Flock license plate-reading camera data

DENVER — The most populated city in Colorado is removing Loveland's access to its Flock automated license plate reading data, after 9NEWS obtained records that showed Loveland Police has shared access ...
The New York Times

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration. By Zach Montague Reporting from Washington A federal ...
Education Week

Federal Appeals Court Ruling Allows DOGE Access to Education Department Data

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a preliminary injunction that had blocked the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing sensitive individual ...
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 ...