Google is spending $50 million training 300,000 skilled-trades workers across more than 20 US states Funding comes from Google’s AI Opportunity Fund and is being positioned as a public-private partnership model to fulfil upcoming infrastructure-related jobs tied to datacenter and grid buildouts This is a small fraction of Google’s overall AI skill-related spend of a…

Gartner study suggests AI data center power requirements will grow by 26% in 2026 This is a 13% increase over an earlier forecast which capped growth at 500TWh. AI data centers currently account for 31% of total data center power consumption, but are projected to exceed conventional server power needs by 2027 The last few…

Incogni report finds leading job sites sell sensitive user data, often without awareness ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, and Monster ranked highest for collection/sharing practices Millions of US job seekers at risk, with only 7% expressing concern over privacy exposure Almost all of the leading job search sites are selling their users’ sensitive data to third parties –…

Senior-level skills like judgement and leadership are now in-demand for entry-level workers, too Strong AI adopters are seeing considerable growth in productivity Companies must continue to invest in human upskilling New data from PwC analyzing more than one billion job ads across six continents, has found professionalized roles where AI automated parts of the work…

If you need a capable, no-fuss 15-inch laptop for work, study, or everyday use, the Dell Inspiron 15 3530 is $729 (was $1100) at Best Buy. This configuration pairs the 13th-generation Intel Core i7-1355U with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a 512GB PCIe SSD, and a 15.6” FHD touchscreen in a slim Carbon Black chassis that…

To celebrate the upcoming release of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil on September 18, I thought it would be fun to look back on some of the franchise’s previous movies with a quiz. It’s important to note that Cregger’s take on Resident Evil will be different from what we’ve seen before. The new movie is considered…

Novo Nordisk cyberattack exposed pseudonymized clinical trial patient data (IDs, biomarkers, lifestyle factors) Company insists no direct PII was leaked, reducing immediate risk of phishing or identity misuse Systems shut down for containment; third‑party experts investigating, core operations remain unaffected Novo Nordisk, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has confirmed it recently…

Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, says the UK’s teen social media ban is “unlikely to work” due to VPN use Social media providers are expected to prevent under-16s in the UK from using their platforms While digital rights experts say circumvention is easy, the UK Prime Minister insists the ban is enforceable Nigel Farage said…

FBI dismantled Chinese PhaaS “Outsider Enterprise,” seizing servers, $100k USDT, and Telegram bot Service ran ~9,000 fake sites, 1M+ URLs, stealing 3.8M credit cards and causing $1.9B losses Google filed civil suit, says crooks blasted 2.5M fraudulent SMS in two weeks targeting Android users The FB) has dismantled a major Chinese phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called…

Google has cut the price of Gemini AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month Subscribers now get 400GB of Google storage instead of 200GB Here’s how Gemini AI Plus compares with OpenAI’s $8 ChatGPT Go plan Google just slashed the price of its Google AI Plus plan to $4.99/month (£4.99 /AU$7.99), down from $7.99,…