Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) The Senate ...

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee want answers from the Social Security Administration about the Department of Government Efficiency sharing its data. Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ranking ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, ...

Databricks says Instructed Retriever outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.

IBM is betting $11 billion that real-time data infrastructure will become as critical to AI deployments as databases were to enterprise applications. The company's just-announced acquisition of ...

IBM Corp. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire streaming data firm Confluent Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at about $11 billion, paying $31 per share in cash for all ...

It wouldn’t be Christmas without some big spending! IBM’s acquisition of Confluent could address some critical gaps for Big Blue and support customers moving away from batch processing, in search of ...

Dec 7 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab is in advanced talks to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent (CFLT.O), opens new tab for about $11 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...