AI’s secret water crisis: How data centres are draining freshwater reserves across the world |

[ad_1] AI’s Every time you use ChatGPT to write a 100-word email, roughly 519 millilitres of water is consumed, nearly the volume of a standard water bottle. That figure comes from a peer-reviewed 2025 paper published in Communications of the ACM by Pengfei Li, Shaolei Ren, and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside. It […]

New device may make computers 1,000 times faster without overheating while reducing data center power consumption |

[ad_1] Inside a modern data centre, performance is already constrained less by raw transistor capability and more by heat removal. Server racks packed tightly together push thermal systems to their limit, and operators often throttle workloads not because chips can’t compute faster, but because cooling systems can’t keep up. Against that backdrop, the claim that […]

No mass data leak: JEE (Advanced) authorities | India News

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: JEE (Advanced) authorities on Friday said a cloud storage misconfiguration identified by an ethical hacker earlier this week did not result in any mass extraction of candidate data and had no impact on examination records, results or rankings. The clarification came after social media claims that candidate records and admit card documents […]

World’s oldest computer revealed: A YouTuber’s data leads scientists to new insights into 2,000 years of computing history |

[ad_1] The Antikythera mechanism has been described as the world’s first analogue computer since it was found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in 1901, but until now, we have not known precisely how it was configured inside. The Anticythera mechanism – a corroded chalcographical artefact discovered at a Roman shipwreck in 1901, […]

Satellite data reveal Earth is getting brighter at night: Major regions include sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia |

[ad_1] Go out at night when the sky is clear and take a look around more often than not, you’ll see fewer stars than your grandparents did when they were young. And this isn’t just an illusion; satellite measurements now show that the Earth is becoming increasingly bright at night, thanks to the rapid proliferation […]

600-year-old Inca reveal ‘computer-like’ system that could store data, organise records, and even mimic encryption |

[ad_1] PC: National Endowment for the Humanities Before smartphones, spreadsheets, or even written alphabets as we know them, the Inca appear to have managed information in a way that still feels surprisingly advanced. Their system, known as quipu, used knotted cords and colour-coded strings to store records across a vast empire. It was long thought […]

Family says ‘no’ to $26 million offer to build AI data center on their ‘priceless’ generational farm |

[ad_1] Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer from Fortune 100 company to sell ‘priceless’ generational farm for AI data center A farming family in northern Kentucky has turned down a $26 million offer from a Fortune 100 company seeking to build a large AI-linked data centre, choosing instead to keep land they say carries far […]

Alien abduction data for every US state revealed: New York jumps to third as govenment registers alien websites | World News

[ad_1] The Empire State recorded 8,314 UFO sightings since 1974, or one for every 1,003 residents. Delaware holds the top spot.New York has climbed two places to rank third among the most likely states in the United States for alien abductions, according to Casino.ca’s annual ranking published to mark National Alien Abduction Day on 20 […]

Joe Kent suggests Israel link in Charlie Kirk assassination, calls conspiracy theory a ‘data point’ that needs investigation

[ad_1] Former National Counterterrorism Center boss Joe Kent on Wednesday suggested that a conspiracy theory alleging Israel may have been involved in the assassination of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “data point” that needed investigation, New York Post reported.Kent, who resigned his Trump administration position Tuesday in protest of the war in Iran, […]

Ex-DOGE engineer had access to private information of millions of Americans, claims whistleblower: ‘Wanted to sanitize data’

[ad_1] A whistleblower complaint has triggered a federal investigation into claims that a former member of a government cost-cutting team said he had access to sensitive Social Security data and planned to use it after moving to a private sector job.The internal watchdog of the Social Security Administration is examining the allegations, which involve a […]