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.

As honey traps target even trained officials, questions grow about safeguarding national security from seduction‑based espionage.

The criminal group behind a hack at Dutch telecom Odido, one of the largest carried out in the Netherlands, has begun ...

ShinyHunters allegedly leaked 12.4 million CarGurus records, exposing personal and financing data and raising risks of phishing and data extortion attacks.

You've probably heard of the dark web, but what's actually on it? These 5 tips can help you explore the dark web using Tails, Tor, and a VPN, assuming you actually want to go see.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...

Microsoft’s research shows how poisoned language models can hide malicious triggers, creating new integrity risks for enterprises using third-party AI systems. Microsoft has developed a scanner ...

The windowless buildings rising across North Carolina look more like warehouses than engines of climate change. They have no smokestacks and no obvious emissions. But inside, thousands of servers run ...

Simple Wearable Report turns Oura data into a lab-style report. The free tool provides an option to upload to chatbots. You can use it to send to doctors or query an AI. An Oura Ring user on the ...

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of ...

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of ...