WKOW

Caledonia data center plan scrapped by Microsoft after community pushback

RACINE COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) -- Microsoft has stepped back from its plans to build a data center in Caledonia. A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is not moving forward with the project after ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
Columbus Dispatch

Data centers create jobs in central Ohio, but not in ways you might expect

As central Ohio's data center industry keeps booming, critics often lament that the gigantic server warehouses directly employ only several dozen people. But while the number of employees collecting a ...
CNN

In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migrants

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can ...
Ars Technica

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage

The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all ...
Gothamist

NYC's floating jail to be scrapped for parts down in Louisiana

New York City’s notorious five-story floating jail in the Bronx will be tugged down to the bayou and scrapped for parts to make way for a new waterfront delivery hub, the Economic Development ...
CoinDesk

Stripe Unveils Stablecoin Issuance Tool With Phantom’s CASH, Expands Into AI Commerce with OpenAI

Payments giant Stripe unveiled a stablecoin issuance platform and AI commerce tools at its New York showcase on Tuesday, marking a push to tie its payments business to the growing role of digital ...
LP Gas

Propane industry moves to create national safety data repository

At the beginning of 2024, Eric Kuster and his colleagues at the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) started tracking the number of news headlines related to propane incidents across the ...
dbta

Snowflake Unites Industry Leaders with the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative to Create a Universal Semantic Data Framework

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is partnering with leading industry players and ecosystem vendors, including Salesforce, BlackRock, dbt Labs, and RelationalAI, to lead the Open Semantic ...
VentureBeat

The $1 trillion AI problem: Why Snowflake, Tableau and BlackRock are giving away their data secrets

Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs and more than a dozen other technology companies announced Tuesday they will create a universal standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms — ...
Business Insider

Nvidia is investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of an AI data center deal

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