The Verge

Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them

Big tech companies and data center operators are suddenly concerned about their image amid the AI boom. Big tech companies and data center operators are suddenly concerned about their image amid the ...
Futurism

ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database

In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t ...
Yahoo

ICE Tells Legal Observer, 'We Have a Nice Little Database, and Now You're Considered a Domestic Terrorist'

Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer's car. When she asks why he's doing that, he says, "Because we have a ...
The New York Times

Want Your MTV? A Rogue Site Is Bringing Back the Videos.

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...
CNBC

Boneparth: 2026 could be a year of normalization after nonstop headline risk

Douglas Boneparth, Financial Advisor & President at Bone Fide Wealth and CNBC Financial Advisory Council member, says 2026 may bring normalization, continued AI capex spending, and opportunities for ...
Yahoo

See Inside the AI Data Centers Helping to Power the Internet

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From emails to social media to online shopping, banking and chatting — everything we rely on everyday goes through an AI data ...
CNBC

Fed's completing the normalization process, says Georgetown's Paul McCulley

CNBC's Steve Liesman and Paul McCulley, former PIMCO chief economist, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting, the path going forward and much more. Got a confidential ...
InfoQ

Training Data Preprocessing for Text-to-Video Models

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
Forbes

Tackling Cybersecurity Data Sprawl Without Normalizing Everything

Whether investigating an active intrusion, or just scanning for potential breaches, modern cybersecurity teams have never had more data at their disposal. Yet increasing the size and number of data ...
The Washington Post

OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues.

Tests by The Post suggest the training data for OpenAI’s video generator Sora included versions of movies, TikTok clips and Netflix shows. Warning: This graphic ...
People

Disney Will Pay $10 Million for Collecting Children’s Data from Its YouTube Videos

The entertainment company was allegedly alerted beginning in June 2020 that it was violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Charna Flam is a writer ...