Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering ...

Currently, there is no centralised, mandatory register that records all of the medicines a person is prescribed and dispensed ...

A security researcher has discovered 149 million stolen login credentials in an unprotected database, including 900,000 ...

Although there’s broad agreement that AI demands high-quality, well-governed data, the research indicates that AI inference ...

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

In the days of old, every time you needed a personal photo, you had to go out of your way to take it yourself. You had to visit your desired location, set up the scene, and snap the picture. Fast ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

The Los Angeles Times today published the Police Records Access Project, a new searchable database featuring once-secret police records. Built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, 1.5 million pages ...

Today, for the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in California. KQED, along with journalism and police accountability advocates, is publishing a database ...