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Enterprises face delicate balancing act with data center sustainability goals
High energy consumption, raw material requirements, and physical space constraints are holding back data center sustainability efforts, according to new research from Seagate. With Goldman Sachs Research forecasting that global power demand from data centers will increase by as much as 165% from 2023 to 2030, energy usage is now a top concern for 53.5% of business leaders. Seagate’s Decarbonizing…
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Cohere’s Embed 4 model helps enterprises search dynamic documents, ‘messy’ data – Computerworld
Embedding models help transform complex data — text, images, audio, and video — into numerical representations that computers can understand. The embeddings capture the semantic meaning of the data, making them useful for tasks like search, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. Still, they can struggle with more complex materials, such as documents comprising a mix of text and images,…
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Meta just revived plans to train AI models with European user data – here’s how you can opt out
Meta has confirmed plans to train AI models using European users’ public content and conversations with its Meta AI chatbot. Last year, Meta announced plans to train its AI on user data, but pressure from activists and regulators, as well as tighter data privacy laws in the EU, led it to pause that plan indefinitely. Meta also held back the…
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Landmark Admin data breach impact now reaches 1.6 million people
Landmark Admin has issued an update to its investigation of a cyberattack it suffered in May 2024, increasing the number of impacted individuals to 1.6 million. Landmark is a Texas-based third-party administrator (TPA) handling policy accounting, regulatory reporting, reinsurance support, and IT systems for major insurers nationwide like Liberty Bankers Life and American Benefit Life. In October 2024, the company…
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Cleo attack victim list grows as Hertz confirms customer data stolen – and security experts say it won’t be the last
Hertz has confirmed it suffered a data breach as a result of the Cleo zero-day vulnerability in late 2024, with the car rental giant warning that customer data was stolen. In a statement confirming the incident, the firm said customer data was “acquired by an unauthorized party that we understand exploited zero-day vulnerabilities within Cleo’s platform in October 2024 and…
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Texan plastic surgeon notifies 32K people of data breach that leaked medical info and patient images
Vitenas Cosmetic Surgery is notifying 31,852 people of a February 2025 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and health information. Ransomware gang Kairos claimed the attack after allegedly stealing 734 GB of data. Images of patients were included in its proof pack. In its notification, Vitenas confirms that: “On or about February 26, 2025, we detected we were the…
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Govtech giant Conduent confirms client data stolen in January cyberattack
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent disclosed today that client data was stolen in a January 2025 cyberattack. Conduent is a business services company that provides digital platforms and solutions for government and commercial clients in transportation, healthcare, customer experience, and human resources. The company has over 33,000 employees and provides services to half of Fortune 100 companies…
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Hertz confirms customer info, drivers’ licenses stolen in data breach
Car rental giant Hertz Corporation warns it suffered a data breach after customer data for its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands was stolen in the Cleo zero-day data theft attacks. “On February 10, 2025, we confirmed that Hertz data was acquired by an unauthorized third party that we understand exploited zero-day vulnerabilities within Cleo’s platform in October 2024 and December…
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US lab testing provider exposed health data of 1.6 million people
Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) has released a statement informing it suffered a data breach where hackers stole sensitive information of roughly 1.6 million people from its systems. LSC is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that provides centralized laboratory services to its member affiliates, including select Planned Parenthood centers. It plays a crucial role within its niche, supporting organizations in the reproductive health…
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Google to add on-demand genAI data analyst to Workspace – Computerworld
Users can, for example, automate a stream of jobs involved in document reviews, customer support requests, or product analysis. One such use case: Workspace Flows can approve branding copy by referring to a collection of marketing data. Or it can handle customer service requests by referring to support documents. “A lot of the work we do today requires context and…
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