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Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions offline for an extended period. Amazon has urged teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere.
Tech companies are attempting to weaken Colorado's landmark right-to-repair law, which aims to give consumers and independent repair shops access to repair information and tools for electronic devices. The law, titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair, has been moved out of committee and into the state senate for further consideration.
A college student's online activity, including a cat meme, inadvertently helped authorities crack a massive botnet case. The network, known as Kimwolf, included over a million compromised home Android devices and digital phones.
Attorneys are facing increasing penalties for using artificial intelligence tools to generate errors in court briefs. Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by AI tools. The most prominent case was that of a lawyer who was sanctioned for using AI to generate a brief that contained false information.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, nearly half of planned US data center projects have been delayed or canceled. One major reason behind these setbacks is the availability of key electrical components, such as transformers, switchgear, and batteries, that are used both at data centers and in other industries.
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have announced plans to build five new artificial intelligence data centers in the United States as part of their ambitious Stargate project. The project is estimated to cost $500 billion and aims to expand the companies' capabilities in AI research and development.
Spending on data center projects in the US has surpassed office construction for the first time, according to a report from Bloomberg. This trend is driven by the increasing demand for cloud computing and data storage.
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