We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years. PowerSchool, which provides K-12 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Data breaches at colleges and universities are common. In the last 20 years ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

Data centers seem to be popping up everywhere, with big tech companies proposing to build them on farmland, old golf courses, downtowns and industrial parks. Many of the proposed developments are huge ...

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the ...

Recently, while I was taking an Uber from the airport, my driver told me he’d been reading some articles about data centers. “They’re baaaad,” he said ominously. However, a moment later, we were ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

Christopher Ramezan receives funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become part of daily life. Many devices – including electric razors and ...

As Google’s 2024 antitrust loss proved, the company has worked very, very hard to ensure its search engine is the primary roadmap for the Internet. Google scours the Internet for data about everything ...

Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud. By Emily Badger As the Trump administration has sought to amass personally ...

Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history. The tax, spending and policy bill ...