With just a Raspberry Pi, a few sensors, and some Python code, you can create a powerful and budget-friendly data logger. From tracking temperature and humidity to monitoring pressure or light levels, ...

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build ...

As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented data center buildout that has especially hit rural communities living near ample empty land where tech companies see fit to plop down these ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

The state House on Monday passed two bills intended to help the state and local governments grapple with the impacts of data centers, as communities across the commonwealth continue to deal with the ...

The deportation of a Guatemalan mother and daughter who were detained before boarding a flight raises new questions about how the Trump administration is using government databases for immigration ...

Algorithms are increasingly using personal data to determine the minimum pay a worker is willing to accept, consumer watchdogs say. You've likely already felt the digital sting of "surveillance ...

When you walk through a furniture store, the wood around you seems ordinary. Floorboards gleam under bright lights. Tables and cabinets are labeled with familiar names of wood, such as oak, rosewood ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Essentially, log files are the raw record of an interaction with a website. They are reported by the website’s server and typically include information about users and bots, the pages they interact ...