Going beyond decibels: Visualising how annoying traffic noise really is

We measured traffic noise in 25 homes across Singapore for a Straits Times interactive story. Here is how the data was ...
Security Boulevard

Payouts King Takes Aim at the Ransomware Throne

IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

One company, AfterQuery, sells a series of off-the-shelf “worlds” to AI labs, with names such as “Big Tech World”, “Finance ...
Nature

AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit biases when training other systems

Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this ...

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM

Opus 4.7 utilizes an updated tokenizer that improves text processing efficiency, though it can increase the token count of ...
The Bismarck Tribune

Basin, NextEra eye building huge gas plant to serve North Dakota data centers

In an effort to provide power for a huge data center buildout, a North Dakota utility is seeking to fast-track a natural gas plant along with one of the country's largest energy developers.
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Amazon and Anthropic expand strategic collaboration

Anthropic to secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of current and future generations of Amazon’s Trainium chips to train and power ...