Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3300) in the Everest Forms Pro plugin, which lets them ...
9to5Mac

AI companies and data brokers even resort to fake forms to keep selling our data

Act surprised! A new privacy study has found that data brokers and AI companies deliberately deceive consumers who attempt to opt out of the sale of their personal data. An audit of the opt-out ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
Wired

Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. Researchers at EPIC ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...
Post and Courier

Spartanburg data center plans to use 460K gallons of water per day. Here's what that means.

SPARTANBURG — The NorthMark data center on Pine Street estimates it will use 460,000 gallons of water daily — or almost 2,000 times the average residential customer — without posing a major strain on ...
Business Wire

Red Hat Delivers Post-Quantum Readiness and AI-Powered Automation with Latest Versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 provide a unified foundation for the hybrid cloud designed to address emerging security challenges, featuring advanced AI assistance, quantum-resistant ...
AOL

White House Tries To Bash Chuck Schumer With AI Cinco De Mayo Post — But He Was Ready

In 2016 and again in 2025, Trump "celebrated" the Mexican holiday by posting a photo of himself eating the taco salad at Trump Tower. On Tuesday, the White House posted its own, slightly different ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
CBS News

Using the ocean to power data centers

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...