Innovative algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster and more affordable for global disease outbreaks

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

Data Scientist Ke Zhang’s Research Explores Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Marketing

A privacy-preserving marketing framework applies homomorphic encryption to perform machine learning on encrypted consumer data. By combining ...
Ars Technica

“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...
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Are we mining minerals the wrong way?

There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the rare earth elements it needs through e-waste recycling and mine tailings, ...
NBC News

Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Keeping Security Algorithms Current Is Getting Harder

Keeping security algorithms current is now a lifecycle challenge that spans chip design, manufacturing, deployment, and long-term maintenance across the supply chain. To stay ahead of emerging threats ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Mongabay

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...
PBS

We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See

Our thermal drones exposed pollution from a massive AI data center powering the AI boom. We investigated one of the world’s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden ...
WTHR

13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has promoted data centers as a major economic win by promising billions of dollars in investment, new jobs and a place in the future of artificial intelligence. But 13 ...
AOL

‘It’s like we don’t exist’: 49,000 in Lake Tahoe fear losing power as data centers strain the grid. Experts warn a larger energy crisis is looming

As many Americans struggle with rising energy prices, 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents face a different dilemma: AI data centers — including those owned by Alphabet, Amazon and Meta — eating up their ...