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On March 6, 2025, Axios reported that the State Department had launched a new social media surveillance program called “Catch and Revoke.” The intended goal of this program was to use artificial ...

It is becoming more and more difficult to secure federal data that measures the condition of our nation. This has become most apparent by how different government agencies are being influenced by ...

The term “democratizing data” has been gaining traction in recent years, but what does it truly mean? Without question, it refers to making data accessible to all individuals within an organization, ...

Interior of a modern data center. (Photo by Imaginima/Getty Images) Data centers evoke strong and conflicting opinions. Advocates point to the truly significant revenue they can generate for local ...

Data is the oil that fuels the AI gold rush; machines need it to understand the world and help us solve its most pressing problems. But the way we use, collect and store data is evolving as quickly as ...