My most useful Chrome extension was stealing my data for years

An extension I used almost every day was bought by a new owner and loaded up with spyware. It happened in 2024, but Google ...

Want to know which sites are selling your data? This free privacy tool gave me answers

Data is gold, and some companies go to great lengths to collect it, store it, and sell it. But you can put an end to it.
Analytics Insight

Best Python Libraries for Cybersecurity: 2026 Edition

Python libraries for cybersecurity help automate threat detection, network monitoring, and vulnerability analysis. Tools like Scapy, Nmap, and Requests enable penetration testing and network security ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...
Game Rant

How to Escape a Level in YAPYAP by Extracting

Krista McCay is a writer specializing in video game guides and walkthroughs. She first entered the industry in 2022 while studying English at UC Santa Barbara and working part-time as an editor. It ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
Wired

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...
The New York Times

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.
Geeky Gadgets

How Google’s Lang Extract Turns Messy Documents into Trustworthy JSON and Interactive HTML

What if you could turn chaotic, unstructured text into clean, actionable data in seconds? Better Stack walks through how Google’s Lang Extract, an open source Python library, achieves just that by ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...