Wall Street Journal

Google to Pay $135 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Handling of Cellular Data

Google will pay $135 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the Alphabet GOOGL-0.54%decrease; red down pointing triangle unit programmed its Android operating system to illegally collect consumers’ ...
Frontiers

Federated learning for critical electrical infrastructure—handling data heterogeneity for predictive maintenance of substation equipment

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Black and Veatch, Overland Park, KS, United States 2 Department of Enterprise Solutions, Black and Veatch, Overland Park, KS, United States High-voltage ...
InfoWorld

Kotlin-based Ktor 3.4 boosts HTTP client handling

Update to the Kotlin-backed framework brings duplex streaming to the OkHttp client engine and the ability to cancel in-flight HTTP requests when the client disconnects. JetBrains has released Ktor 3.4 ...
KTVB

Another class-action lawsuit targets PowerSchool over student data collection practices

BOISE, Idaho — A second class-action lawsuit has been filed against PowerSchool, the student data company widely used by K-12 schools, alleging the company improperly collects, uses and shares student ...
Game Rant

Diablo 4's second Lord of Hatred class is predictable, but you won't see its gameplay loop coming

Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.
The Mercury

Limerick eyes 1.4-million-square-foot data center proposal

LIMERICK — The public got its first look at a 1.4-million-square-foot data center proposal for 192 acres across from the Philadelphia Outlets Thursday when it was unveiled to the township planning ...
Austin American-Statesman

Oracle facing possible class action over data breaches impacting millions

Oracle Corp., the Austin-based tech giant, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit over multiple data breaches this year impacting millions of people. A federal judge in Austin is currently ...
Electrek

Google just spent $4.75B chasing power for AI data centers

Google already owns a minority stake in Intersect from a previous funding round. Once the deal closes, Intersect will be expected to help bring new data centers and power generation online faster, ...
Wall Street Journal

SoftBank to Buy Data Center Investment Firm DigitalBridge for $4 Billion

SoftBank Group 9984-0.28%decrease; red down pointing triangle agreed to buy DigitalBridge DBRG-0.13%decrease; red down pointing triangle Group for $4 billion, including debt, part of the Japanese ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion

Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant to dramatically expand its ...
The New York Times

Google Buys Data Center Company for $4.75 Billion

The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence. By Eli Tan Reporting from Seattle Google has agreed to buy ...
Gizmodo

Google Is Spending Over $4 Billion on a Data Center Company

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced on Monday that it has agreed to buy the data center and energy company Intersect in a deal worth $4.75 billion. Intersect specializes in developing data ...