The U.S. homeland is out of range of military strikes, but state and local governments could see cyber attacks, cloud service disruptions and rising supply costs.

Overview: Modern big data tools like Apache Spark and Apache Kafka enable fast processing and real-time streaming for smarter ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...

It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied ...

Microsoft’s MSFT1.07%increase; green up pointing triangle earnings surge failed to energize investors on Wednesday as it reported higher-than-expected spending on data centers and other AI ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab has agreed with Indigo Carbon to buy a record 2.85 million soil carbon credits linked to regenerative agriculture in the United States, as ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced an initiative to prevent its data centers from harming the areas where they’re built. Brad Smith, the tech giant’s vice chair and president, detailed the program in a ...

Quincy is a small farming town in Central Washington near the Columbia River, home to one of the world’s top french fry producers. It’s also the model for Microsoft’s nationwide data center strategy.

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local ...