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What is JSONC and is it any better than JSON?

JSONC is one attempt, of many, to improve JSON. Other formats that try to do something similar include YAML and JSON5. Each ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
Yahoo

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Servers in a data center in 2015. The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided ...
The Washington Post

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

When a developer approached Saline Township, Michigan, with a proposal to turn 250 acres of farmland into a data center, the town board said no, citing opposition from residents. Then came the lawsuit ...
The Baltimore Sun

University of Maryland launches violence reporting system project

The University of Maryland School of Social Work launched a statewide initiative that aims to help community organizations and health departments use death data to develop suicide and homicide ...
NPR

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Indonesia Revokes TikTok License Suspension After Data Submitted

Indonesia revoked a suspension on TikTok’s local operating license after the social media platform shared data requested by the government. The company provided data related to TikTok Live traffic ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
TechCrunch

Clop hackers caught exploiting Oracle zero-day bug to steal executives’ personal data

Oracle has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in one of its flagship business software products that a hacking group is currently abusing to steal personal information about corporate executives. In a ...
MarketWatch

The Fed has a big decision to make without key data. Here’s what it could do.

As they prepare to meet in 10 days on interest rates, Federal Reserve officials are very divided over a key question: How worried they ought to be about the U.S. labor market. “Some folks are less ...