471 Million Breach Notices in Six Months — And Only 24% Said How It Happened
The Identity Theft Resource Center's H1 2026 report counts 471.2 million victim notices from 1,803 tracked compromises in six months — more notices th...
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10 articles on transparency.
Two-Thirds of New AI Data Centers Are Going Up in Drought Zones — Mid-Year Water Review
American data centers consumed an estimated 17.5 billion gallons of water directly in 2023, a figure projected to double or quadruple by 2028. About t...
101 Gigawatts of Private Gas Plants: Data Centers Are Building Their Own Grid
Data center developers have announced roughly 101 gigawatts of behind-the-meter natural gas generation in the United States. About 57 GW of that has a...
Data Centers on Army Bases: What EO 14318 Actually Does — and What It Doesn't
You have probably read that the White House 'classified AI data centers as military installations.' That is not what happened, and the accurate versio...
Texas Froze New Data Center Approvals — And the Reason Is 474 Gigawatts
On 3 August, Governor Greg Abbott halted approvals for new data centers connecting to the Texas grid until state regulators audit them. The trigger: a...
Nobody Agrees How Many Data Centers America Has — A Mid-Year 2026 Census
Halfway through 2026, the trackers put the United States somewhere between 2,000 and 2,100 operating data centers, around 800 under construction, and ...
Somebody Finally Mapped the Pipe: DecryptAds Puts 284 Million Ad Supply-Chain Records in the Open
For years the answer to 'who exactly received my location when that app loaded an ad?' has been that nobody outside the industry could know. DecryptAd...
Claude Is Now Watermarking Its Text — Invisibly, Worldwide, and Not Because America Asked
Anthropic has begun embedding imperceptible machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude, plus C2PA-signed provenance metadata on generated...
When Transparency Becomes an Attack Surface: Maine's Breach Portal Goes Dark
Maine pulled its public data-breach database offline this month after someone planted fake disclosures naming VRChat and Discord. The episode exposes ...
New York's FAIR News Act: When 'Made With AI' Becomes the Law
New York's FAIR News Act would force news organizations to label content substantially made with generative AI — covering weather, sports, and enterta...