How to Use Claude to Turn Your Handwriting Into a Custom Font

It’s a great, easy way to turn your handwriting into a font, but you can use it to create any typeface you can imagine as ...
Bisnow

Apex Data Center Scrapped

Plans for the project, called New Hill Digital Campus, were pulled by Maryland firm Natelli Investments last week. The project was proposed for the town of Apex in Wake County. The developer initially ...
The Citizen

Vodacom scraps data charges for SABC streaming platform

Mobile service operator Vodacom has scrapped data charges for the SABC+ platform, allowing users to stream the service without incurring any costs. SABC+ shared the update on X on Monday. “Stay ...
Futurism

You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create

Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, creating 125 new jobs for workers throughout the area. Pharmaceutical giant Becton ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center

Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged over financing and OpenAI’s changing needs. The collapsed talks ...
Futurism

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place

Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately ...
TechCrunch

Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information ...
InfoWorld

How should AI agents consume external data?

The jury’s out on screen scraping versus official APIs. And the truth is, any AI agent worth its salt will likely need a mixture of both. AI agent development is off to the races. A 2025 survey from ...
Grist

Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them.

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the ...
OPB

Oregon Gov. Kotek to create statewide data center advisory committee

As power-hungry data centers continue to pop up across the state, Oregon will begin creating policies addressing the expansion and potential impacts they have, through a newly appointed advisory ...
Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...