Flash Bee is an easy-to-make DIY handheld lightning detector based on an ESP32-C3 board, a round display, and AMS AS3935 ...

It’s still self-surveillance with our tax dollars and everything else, but we are also creating nets of smart devices and ...

The fast-growing market of non-invasive neurotechnology is collecting people’s neural data without clear guidelines.

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Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. Data brokers are helping the FBI get around warrant requirements. is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the ...

Faculty Associate Ben Green tracks growing public discontent with the data centers fueling US AI companies. Data Centers, Green notes, lead to higher energy costs for consumers, impose substantial ...

In October 2025, a 67-year-old retiree from Philadelphia sent an email to the Department of Homeland Security pleading for basic decency in how they carried out a high-profile asylum case. Within five ...

Annie Cannelongo, left, and Annette Singh are neighbors who live in the same Hilliard subdivision. They’re organizing against proposed fuel cell powering a data center just outside their neighborhood.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia data centers may soon have to pay up. “They can keep building em, they just need to pay their fair share of taxes, that’s all,” Senator Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) told ...

While lifesaving vaccines face a relentless onslaught from the Trump administration—with fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the charge—scientific literature is building a ...

Microsoft is expanding data loss prevention (DLP) controls to block the Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant from processing confidential Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, regardless of their ...