As ICE cracks down in Minneapolis and across the country, reporters and privacy advocates have drawn attention to how the agency is using technology: scanning people’s faces without consent, using ...

Three super PACs aligned with top Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress routed roughly $44 million in the first quarter through affiliated nonprofits that shield donor identities before the ...

Empirical investigation requires dealing with fundamental uncertainty. In experimental psychology, research questions are often addressed using Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), an approach ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The FBI has labeled a recent data breach, which reportedly targeted an FBI surveillance system, a “major incident” and notified Congress about the cyber intrusion, the agency confirmed to The Hill on ...

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

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Data storage and security are among the biggest challenges our technology-dependent world faces today, pushing us to explore unconventional options. The good news is that researchers worldwide are ...

Moody’s Analytics warns the AI boom has a 45% chance of ending in recession. Moody’s Ratings uncovered that five tech giants have accumulated $662 billion in off-balance-sheet data center lease ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's an advocate for digital privacy and has been quoted in online publications like Computer Weekly, The Guardian, ...