A software engineer created a 90-day AI course to help workers across departments build the tech they want

Flexport's AI training was built in-house to give employees automation and vibe-coding skills crucial to modern supply chain ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
JD Supra

Semiconductor Export Controls in 2026: Dual-Use Risk, Re-export, Sanctions Exposure, and Compliance Strategy

Semiconductors are among the most strategically sensitive products in global trade. In 2026, exporting semiconductors is no longer a routine commercial matter: it is a legal, geopolitical, and ...
The Next Web

The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

China treats data as a factor of production, not a privacy right or corporate asset, and is building economic infrastructure around it: regulated data exchanges, 30+ new standards expected in 2026, ...
CBS News

Using the ocean to power data centers

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Water use is a key data center issue. This will get you caught up.

Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...
TechCrunch

Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence

Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications. This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open ...
Wall Street Journal

Locals Are Using AI to Fight Data Centers Being Built in Their Backyards

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...
PC Magazine

Switching to Gemini? You Can Now Import Chat History, Memories From Rival AIs

If you're not satisfied with your experience on ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI chatbot, you can now switch to Gemini without losing your chat history or preferences. Google on Thursday announced new ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...
GitHub

Garmin Connect Data Export

Pulls your health and fitness data from Garmin Connect and saves it as a plain text file with complete JSON data blocks. Designed for uploading to LLM tools like NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude. Also ...