Encryption is under attack – but it's "vital for law enforcement," says former US investigator

During a discussion at an event for Global Encryption Day 2025, a former investigator joined technologists and activists in ...
CNET

Satellites Have Exposed Sensitive Data From T-Mobile and Others, Research Reveals

A research paper being presented this week at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference reveals that satellite internet services, including T-Mobile's, used unencrypted transmissions that ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...
Wired

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from ...
Yahoo

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Servers in a data center in 2015. The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided ...
Hosted on MSN

I encrypt DNS and use Unbound as a recursive resolver to get the best of both worlds — Here's how

I no longer rely on my router’s DNS service after I started using Unbound on my home network. After setting up split-horizon DNS for internal subnets at home, I used public DNS servers for the ...
Columbus Dispatch

Data centers are grabbing thousands of acres in central Ohio. But are they the best use?

Communities often celebrate data center openings. But for all the benefits state and local officials tout for the massive facilities, they also bring their share of problems — including gobbling up ...
Computerworld

UK government still wants Apple to break data encryption

The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, ...
InfoWorld

Introduction to Java records: Simplified data-centric programming in Java

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...
Newsweek

Chinese Firm Allegedly Using Charles Leclerc’s Brainwave Data for Military Use

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc's name has appeared in a brainwave data breach following an investigation. It is alleged that China might have stolen brainwave data through a focus ...
KQED

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It

Halfway through the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to a 123% increase from 2024 in ...
Futurism

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an ...