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With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast ...

National Public Data is back online. Protect your privacy from it now - and check if other people-search sites have your information.

National Public Data is back with new owners, joining the ranks of other creepy, people-finding services. Here's how to get your profile removed from the site.

“With Elasticsearch vector database at the heart of the Dell AI Data Platform's unstructured data engine, Elastic will bring vector search and hybrid retrieval to a turnkey architecture ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.

AT&T customers who were impacted by two 2024 data breaches can now file a claim for a proposed settlement. Here's how to file a claim and the amount of compensation.

A sprawling $25 billion data center campus is set to break ground in north central West Texas, as the state's power grid continues to feel the strain of the rise of AI.

Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more.