Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.
InfoQ

AI-Powered Bot Compromises GitHub Actions Workflows Across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects

AI-powered bot hackerbot-claw exploited GitHub Actions workflows across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF projects over 7 days using 5 attack techniques. Bot achieved RCE in 5 of 7 targets, stole GitHub ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
CNBC

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...
Wall Street Journal

How Jet Engines Are Powering Data Centers

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...
KXAN

Texas regulators will ask data centers to begin reporting their water usage

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...
WHYY

How much water do data centers use? One in Delaware City could use up to 20 million gallons a year

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
WDBJ

Virginia lawmakers look to address data center water use

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia lawmakers are considering legislation to limit water consumption by data centers. It comes as Google plans to draw an estimated 8 million gallons per day from Carvins ...