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Data breaches have become a fact of our digital world. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded over 12,000 breaches in that year alone. That’s nearly three dozen a day. And it gets ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Amazon said that two of its data centers in the UAE were hit by drone strikes. Digital services in the UAE reported outages following drone strikes on AWS data centers in the country. Delivery and ...

Amazon Web Services said Monday that two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates were "directly struck" by drones. A facility in Bahrain was also taken offline after it was damaged by a nearby ...

Amazon Web Services had a power outage at one of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday. Amazon said it could take at least a day to bring the data center back online. The fire was ...

Google has officially discontinued its Dark Web Report feature, a free tool that once scanned known dark web breach dumps for personal information tied to a user's Google account. The service ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Residents and area property owners gathered Thursday night to question the impact of a planned data center off Interstate 27 and FM 54 north of Abernathy. The developer, ...

SAN JOSE — A major provider of data centers bought several buildings in South San Jose in a deal that suggests the tech industry’s hunt for access to hubs for massive computer processing has yet to ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Since the announcement of a multi-part data center project, Shreveport residents have voiced opposition, citing concerns over transparency, rising utility costs, water supply, ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - The mayor of Mooringsport and two others have filed a petition for judicial review of the Shreveport City Council’s decision to approve a new data center, citing a lack of ...