InfoWorld

How to run an R data visualization chatbot you can talk to

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots ...
The Economist

People are using big data to try to predict Nobel laureates

IN YEARS GONE by, the wait for the announcement of winners of the Nobel prizes was a period of fun but largely uninformed speculation. The Nobel committees’ processes of choosing winners are so ...
Los Angeles Times

Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The AI-driven boom in data centers is putting growing demands on water in California and the Southwest. New ...
Newsweek

Chinese Firm Allegedly Using Charles Leclerc’s Brainwave Data for Military Use

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc's name has appeared in a brainwave data breach following an investigation. It is alleged that China might have stolen brainwave data through a focus ...
Reuters

China spotlights major data centre project using domestic chips

BEIJING, Sept 17 (Reuters) - China Unicom (0762.HK), opens new tab has built a massive data centre powered by domestically developed artificial intelligence chips from Alibaba and other companies, ...
Gizmodo

AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

For the past few years, the AI industry has been charging full steam ahead, in what can sometimes feel like a pell-mell mad dash to take over the world. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the ...
Futurism

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an ...
Hosted on MSN

‘Colossal Structure’ In the Early Universe Visualized Using Very Large Telescope Data

A galaxy proto-supercluster was discovered using VIMOS instrument of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The astronomers who discovered it have nicknamed the bohemoth “Hyperion.” It has been visualized here.
Bleeping Computer

Crypto24 ransomware hits large orgs with custom EDR evasion tool

The Crypto24 ransomware group has been using custom utilities to evade security solutions on breached networks, exfiltrate data, and encrypt files. The threat group's earliest activity was reported on ...
ConsumerAffairs

Who's paying for all the electricity those new data centers are using?

Residential electricity prices hit 18¢/kWh on average in April 2025—a 35% increase over five years. Utilities requested or received approval for $29 billion in rate increases in just the first half of ...
Bleeping Computer

LameHug malware uses AI LLM to craft Windows data-theft commands in real-time

A novel malware family named LameHug is using a large language model (LLM) to generate commands to be executed on compromised Windows systems. LameHug was discovered by Ukraine’s national cyber ...