A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise. The report was ...

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Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

A Laravel package that allows you to easily load data into Oracle database using sqlldr. The SQL*Loader default date format is YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS."000000Z" to match Laravel's model date ...

When the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) began a multi-year collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), they worked together to modernize a critical public health information source: ...

CEOs of artificial-intelligence companies want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building their energy-gobbling data centers, but that can’t happen without the necessary electricity supply. And ...

Microsoft-owned social networking site LinkedIn will soon start using the data of its users to train its AI models, reports Windows Latest. The platform has sent out emails to users about the change, ...

Big Pharma buys consumer health care data and uses it to target doctors who don’t prescribe their drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have been doing this for decades, yet few people know it happens. Many ...