Reining in data centers sparks rare bipartisanship in statehouses

A rare source of bipartisanship has broken out in state capitols across the country: tackling data centers. Legislators from both major parties in red, blue and battleground states alike are rushing to figure out how to regulate the construction and energy consumption of the data centers fueling the AI boom. This year alone, state lawmakers … Read more

Trump’s demand for colleges nationwide to fork over race data faces legal hurdle

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A U.S. judge in Boston on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from ordering colleges to collect and turn over detailed data on race and student admissions, delivering a near-term reprieve to 17 Democratic attorneys general who sued to block the policy from taking force.  U.S. District Judge … Read more

Social Security watchdog opens probe into alleged misuse of data by ex-DOGE employee

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into what it describes as a former Department of Government Efficiency worker’s potential misuse of data obtained from the Social Security Administration. According to a document the Associated Press obtained Wednesday, the SSA’s inspector general informed the leadership of four congressional committees … Read more

States sue the Trump administration to challenge policy requiring colleges to collect race data

BOSTON — A coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they aren’t considering race in admissions. President Donald Trump ordered the new policy in August after he raised concerns that colleges and universities were using personal statements … Read more

How Analytics Is Used in Everyday Systems For Payroll Data

Data analytics has become an essential part of modern decision-making across industries. From sports training environments to workplace payroll systems, organizations increasingly rely on data to measure performance, improve efficiency, and support better outcomes. While analytics may once have been associated primarily with large corporations or scientific research, it now plays a role in many … Read more

Structured Data Is Not Enough: Why AI Search Needs a Memory Layer

Generative AI is completely rewriting the rules of online visibility.  We’re moving past the days of simply ranking links; today’s AI engines don’t just find information: they read it, reason over it, and build direct answers for the user. For SEOs, growth marketers, and innovation teams, this shift raises a massive, and sometimes uncomfortable, question: … Read more

IRS leader Bisignano declines to answer questions over unlawful taxpayer data disclosures to ICE

WASHINGTON — The head of the IRS largely declined to answer questions about recent unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data when he was questioned by lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, saying they happened before his tenure began. IRS CEO Frank Bisignano faced the House Ways and Means Committee to speak about the agency’s progress … Read more

Amazon says drones hit 3 of its Middle East data centers amid Iran conflict

Amazon said drones struck three of its Middle East data centers, causing outages related to the “ongoing conflict in the Middle East.”  Drones directly struck two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates, and a drone strike near an Amazon data center in Bahrain also damaged that facility, the company said in a post on … Read more

Art and data converge in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert

“Desert Pulse,” an art installation at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, is a multi-sensory immersion featuring time-lapse imagery of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert – a landscape pulsing with life. Lee Cowan talks with U.K. architects Matt Shaw and Will Trossell, who brought a 3-D LIDAR scanner (a tool used in surveying) to the desert to … Read more

Two more Trump allies say Biden FBI secretly seized their data amid ‘weaponization’ controversy

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At least two more allies of President Donald Trump have said the Biden-era FBI secretly sought their records, in addition to the records of FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Republican operative Corey Lewandowski, who currently serves as a Department of … Read more