OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools(404media.co)

98 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 87 comments

Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage(404media.co)

81 points by awoodbeck 20 days ago | 25 comments

A 404 Media article reporting that lawmakers introduced several bills to restrict Flock's license plate reader surveillance following the outlet's reporting.

FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem(404media.co)

57 points by marban 1 year ago | 16 comments

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets(404media.co)

722 points by johnneville 1 year ago | 212 comments

A 404 Media article on archivists working to identify and preserve thousands of datasets disappearing from the US government's data.gov portal.

Google Search Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find(404media.co)

33 points by doener 2 years ago | 12 comments

Laion Took Down Its Datasets After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material(404media.co)

45 points by orangeteacups 2 years ago | 37 comments

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait(a16z.com)

26 points by gmays 15 days ago | 33 comments

An a16z American Dynamism article explaining why Texas's grid operator paused new data center interconnections amid a surge of large-load requests.

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage(1011now.com)

469 points by sensanaty 22 days ago | 608 comments

Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal(arstechnica.com)

614 points by nobody9999 1 year ago | 75 comments

Ars Technica article on a court rejecting Verizon's claim that selling customer location data without consent was legal, amid a circuit split with AT&T's case.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use(nltimes.nl)

148 points by Thom2503 26 days ago | 156 comments

NL Times news article reporting that most data centers in the Netherlands refuse to disclose how much water and electricity they use.