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How ‘Reprompt’ Attack Let Hackers Steal Data From Microsoft Copilot

Varonis found a “Reprompt” attack that let a single link hijack Microsoft Copilot Personal sessions and exfiltrate data; ...
The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
Reuters

Fact Check: Sweden does not use new beet extract salt to de-ice roads and nourish birds

Sweden uses common salt to de-ice its roads in winter, contrary to online posts that say it uses a new beet extract salt, the country’s Transport Administration has said. Posts shared on social media, ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...
Government Technology

What Is Synthetic Data, and How Is Government Using It?

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...
Wall Street Journal

Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...
The Shreveport Times

A Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. Why it will use up state's water, electricity

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...
InfoWorld

Databot: AI-assisted data analysis in R or Python

If you’d like an LLM to act more like a partner than a tool, Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that also works in both R and Python. Databot is designed to analyze data you’ve ...