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5 ways retailers break trust—and how data can fix it
When I became a first-time mom, my perspective on the products my family used changed completely. As a data scientist, I naturally dive…
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Hong Kong probes Louis Vuitton data leak after UK, Korea attacks
Leaked data of the Hong Kong customers include names, passport numbers, birth dates, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, shopping…
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Thousands of Afghans won't receive compensation for data breach
Thousands of Afghans whose personal details were leaked but who were not evacuated to Britain are not expected to receive any…
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US: Wall Street opens higher as investors weigh data, earnings
Wall Street opened higher on Friday (Jul 18), with investors weighing a week of mixed economic signals and earnings reports, while…
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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that…
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Grant Shapps says his focus was on saving lives after Afghan data breach
Former defence secretary Grant Shapps has defended the decision to keep secret a data breach involving the details of thousands of Afghans…
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Warburg Pincus-backed data centre operator Princeton Digital bags US$1.3 billion from Stonepeak
Warburg Pincus-backed Princeton Digital Group announced on Friday (Jul 18) that it secured US$1.3 billion in funding from Stonepeak, a…
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Gold heads for weekly dip as strong dollar, US data weighs
Gold was flat in early Asian trade on Friday (Jul 18), heading for a weekly fall, weighed down by an overall stronger US dollar and solid…
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US: S&P 500, Nasdaq end at record highs after solid retail data
Wall Street stocks rose to fresh record highs on Thursday (Jul 16) as markets focused on solid US retail sales data and corporate earnings…
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Meta is using tents to build its giant AI data centers
When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to…
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US: Wall St opens marginally higher as markets weigh data
Wall Street opened largely steady on Thursday (Jul 17), as investors mulled over fresh economic data, while upbeat results from Taiwan’s…
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AI data centers require massive amounts of power—making electricity more expensive for everyone around them
It’s a staggering statistic: Around 70% of the world’s internet traffic flows through Virginia. The state’s data centers, some of which…
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UK offered to speed up resettlement case of Afghan who posted leaked data online
Joel Gunter and Hannah O'Grady BBC News The Ministry of Defence offered to expedite the review of a rejected resettlement application of…
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Afghan data breach: What we do and do not know
A major data breach which led to thousands of Afghans being secretly relocated to the UK became public knowledge for the first time this…
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US: Wall St opens higher as inflation data, earnings take centre stage
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Jul 16) as investors sifted through new inflation data and digested a fresh round…
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How WeTransfer reignited fears about training AI on user data
Dutch file-sharing service WeTransfer is under fire after users spotted sweeping updates to its terms of service that appeared to let the…
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Afghan data breach raises serious questions for Tories, Keir Starmer says
Becky Morton Political reporter PM: Tory ministers have "serious questions to answer" on Afghan scheme Former Conservative ministers have…
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Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed that all…
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Three key questions after Afghan data leak sparked unprecedented secret evacuation
Frank Gardner Security correspondent It has been more than three years since a British official inadvertently leaked a dataset containing…
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Data shows immigration status of benefit claimants for first time
Kate Whannel Political reporter Data showing the immigration status of those claiming universal credit (UC) - a benefit designed to help…
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Secret Afghan relocation scheme set up after major data breach
Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data,…
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US dollar gains on yen after consumer price data
The US dollar gained against the Japanese yen and was little changed against the euro on Tuesday (Jul 15) in choppy trading, after data…
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US: S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher after inflation data; focus on bank earnings
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 opened higher on Tuesday (Jul 15) after fresh inflation data, while banking heavyweights kicked off the…
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Gold holds ground with spotlight on US inflation data
Gold inched higher on Tuesday (Jul 15) as traders awaited the release of US inflation data later in the day that could shed more light on…