Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals. A fusion center in Philadelphia combed through spicy internet comments from AI critics and concluded there is a growing risk of physical violence against data centers from “domestic violent…
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SoftBank to Plow $52 Billion Into French Data Centers
SoftBank is promising to spend at least $52 billion on building a network of massive data centers in France, helping advance Europe’s goal of tech independence with what would be the continent’s largest AI infrastructure project.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Risk Management
Qevlar’s new AI agents correlate CVEs, incident data, and active exploitation signals
Qevlar has announced a new set of AI agents designed to bridge the disconnect between Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and vulnerability management teams. The new capabilities help security teams correlate CVEs with live incident data for real-time risk prioritization, automatically identify asset owners to speed remediation, and autonomously hunt for active CVE exploitation. General availability…
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Big Subsidies for Google, Limited Water for Locals: The Dilemma of AI in India
Developing-world nations are offering billions of dollars in incentives for U.S. data centers, but locals say the cost is too high.
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How Much Do You Know About Data Centers? Take Our Quiz
Where are data centers concentrated in the U.S.? How much water and electricity do they consume? It’s time to test your knowledge.
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The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: The fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis.
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What Will Travel Look Like in 20 Years?
Plus, how tech giants are pushing to build data centers in space and why people are whispering at work.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Takes Stand in Elon Musk Megatrial
The trial centers around Musk’s donations to the AI lab when it was a non-profit and its conversion to a for-profit company.
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Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list
Missile and drone attacks that took out cloud data centers in the Middle East underscored a critical vulnerability in the modern economy: reliance on digital infrastructure that sustains competitive advantage and operational continuity for corporations, nations, and militaries. The outages and downstream disruption were a preview of a new form of strategic and operational risk.…
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What researchers learned about building an LLM security workflow
Security operations centers are running into the same wall everywhere. Detection tools generate more alerts than analysts can work through, and the early stages of any investigation involve pulling together logs from several sources to decide whether something is worth escalating. Vendors have spent the past two years pitching LLMs as the answer, with a…
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Europol Busts Albanian Scam Call Centers in Major Online Fraud Case
European police arrested 10 suspects after dismantling Albanian scam call centers linked to a €50m ($58m) online investment fraud operation
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Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers
The growth of data centers — and adversaries’ targeting of them — left lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday contemplating whether the federal government has the right setup for defending them. Some industry witnesses and experts at the hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection testified that the answer might be…
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Intel Sales Rise 7% as AI Agents Drive Growth
Demand from data centers for its CPUs pushed quarterly revenues to $13.6 billion.
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The U.S. Has Long Been a Nation of Inventors—and Luddites
From smashing looms to blocking AI data centers, some Americans have resisted technology’s forward march.
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Inside Caller-as-a-Service Fraud: The Scam Economy Has a Hiring Process
Fraud operations now operate like call centers, complete with hiring, training, and performance tracking. Flare reveals how cybercriminals manage “Caller-as-a-Service” operations like a professional sales team. […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI Sued by NAACP Over Memphis Data Center
Lawsuit alleges xAI’s efforts to power its data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi are creating a health risk for local residents.
AI, Global Security News, Network Security
UJET Launching New Channel-Led Global Sales Motion With Google Cloud
UJET, an innovator in AI-powered contact centers, has announced it will launch a new managed service offering and a strategic sales motion with Google Cloud. The Google Cloud CCaaS by UJET offering brings Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade agentic AI, CX, and contact center solutions to the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and mid-market sectors through AVANT’s…
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Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there’s a wide-open window nobody’s guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the most dangerous AI threat surface in your network that isn’t on anyone’s
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War-Driven Outages Put MSP Data Center Strategies at Risk
Data centers are no longer insulated from geopolitical conflict, and MSPs are starting to feel the impact. Recent attacks tied to escalating tensions between Iran, the U.S., and Israel have disrupted cloud infrastructure in the Middle East, forcing hyperscalers to shift workloads and exposing new risks to uptime, supply chains, and service agreements. For managed…
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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes
I have been in security rooms for years, from military operations centers to corporate boardrooms. In all those years I can tell you that the hardest mission that most security leaders will face is not identifying a threat, but getting someone to act on it. We’re trained to see exposure before they are identified by…
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Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI
AI is the new space race for data centers, and consistency at speed is the rocket fuel that colocation and hyperscale providers need to reach orbit. Everything you already know about physical security still applies but it won’t matter unless you have the right plan and partnerships in place to scale without sacrificing quality. Growth…
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Corelight’s Agentic Triage turns SOC alerts into evidence-backed investigations
Corelight has introduced a new set of agentic AI capabilities aimed at helping security operations centers (SOCs) cut down on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. The updates are designed to boost analyst efficiency, speed up response times, and build trust through greater transparency. The release includes Agentic Triage to streamline SOC workflows, a new suite of machine…
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Middle East Conflict Highlights Cloud Resilience Gaps
Data centers — used by both governments and militaries for operations — are now fair game, not just for cyberattacks, but for kinetic attacks as well.
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Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East
Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. […]
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Why ‘secure-by-design’ systems are non-negotiable in the AI era
Moody’s recently reported that global investment in data centers will surpass $3 trillion over the next five years, driven by AI capacity growth and hyperscaler demand. As big tech companies, banks, and institutional investors pour capital into these projects, data center developers and their financial sponsors must prioritze cybersecurity. Moody’s said that data center investments…
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Starcloud prepares to launch AWS Outpost into space
Hot on the heels of Starlink’s plan for a million data centers in space, Starcloud’s next launch will put hardware from AWS in orbit. “Starcloud will be the first to launch the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston wrote in a LinkedIn…
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Musk’s million data centers in space won’t fly, say experts
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced plans to put a million data centers in space, a program he hopes will help meet the growing demand for existing facilities on earth driven by the increasing use of AI. Experts, however, have dismissed the idea of data centers in space as completely impractical. Thermal management is one…