A TransUnion cyberattack exposed over 4.4 million people's info. Credit-monitoring services can help you identify if your identity has been compromised.

Just one problem: No one seems to want a data center in their backyard. Communities oppose them because they consume massive amounts of energy and water and pollute the environment. Another concern? Data centers are major eyesores.

A ransomware group behind the attacks claims to have stolen 275 million records connected to students, teachers, and staff. Here's how to deal with it.

A data breach is a cyberattack, although not all cyberattacks are data breaches. A good example of this is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which is a cyberattack where bad actors disrupt a network by flooding servers with traffic, but do not steal any data.

Carroll County officials are trying to decide what role — if any — data centers should play as the county wrestles with water limits, rising electric costs and large infrastructure debates.

AI agents, data breaches, security flaws, enterprise deals, workforce cuts, and robotics moves shaped a busy week across Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Meta, and more.

Over 1,500 new data centers are in development nationwide. Most will be built in rural areas, particularly the South and Midwest, marking a shift from urban locations.

“Going from zero to a 17-gigawatt AI hyper campus in one leap before they had a single tenant or a dollar of project finance — that was a lot in hindsight,” said Timm Schneider, an energy analyst and founder of the Schneider Capital Group.

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - The rallying U.S. stock market will take its cues next week from inflation and consumer spending data, developments in the war in Iran, and a high-stakes meeting between the leaders of the U.

The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.