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• The slow path to reliable data on child sexual abuse

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  Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns

  Data collected by Tesla on the driver and vehicle in the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and then shared with law enforcement has shined a spotlight on a difficult ethical question for the auto ...
  
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• Are the new personal data rules workable?

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  Phantom data centers: What they are (or aren’t) and why they’re hampering the true promise of AI

  So-called fake data centers are a bottleneck to scaling infrastructure to keep up with compute demand for AI and other critical workloads.
  
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• Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025

  Over half of Microsoft's $80 billion in spending will take place in the U.S., Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote in a Friday blog post.
  
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• China approved more than 90 per cent of overseas data transfers in 2024: top regulator

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