A joint venture between Singapore’s Lum Chang and Malaysia’s Tien Wah Press Holdings has agreed to build a data center for operator MyTelehaus. The facility will cover 1.61 acres in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Financial details and capacity were not disclosed.
LinkedIn is rolling out its AI-powered job search feature to all English users, with plans for four more languages. The company says it’s already used for over 25 million searches weekly. Initial data suggests it helps job seekers without a four-year degree get hired 10% more often.
A UK fusion energy developer is investing nearly £8 million in new high-performance computing power. The contract for a modular data center, awarded to Boxxe, will support the ambitious STEP prototype fusion plant project. It’s a sign of the intense computational needs behind the quest for fusion en
The Breakthrough Listen project aimed the powerful Green Bank Telescope at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for five hours. While they detected signals, all nine candidates turned out to be human-made radio interference. The search confirms the object is just a fascinatingly normal comet from beyond our
According to a Komprise survey, 85% of IT leaders plan to spend more on storage in 2026, with AI workloads being the primary driver. The top challenge? Just figuring out what data they have and getting it ready for AI models.
Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, warns that the speculative rush to build AI data centers is a dangerous gamble. He predicts a “significant financing crisis” could hit by 2027 or 2028, driven by extreme spending and a mismatch between builders and users.
The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach involving science servers. A threat actor claimed to have stolen 200 GB of data, but ESA’s initial analysis suggests the impact is limited to unclassified systems used for collaborative engineering.
A new simulation of a fresh YouTube account found that 21% of the first 500 Shorts shown were AI-generated “slop.” The global consumption of this content is massive, with top channels pulling in billions of views and millions in ad revenue annually.
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that provides an API for scraping search engine results to train AI models. This legal move highlights the intensifying battle over data ownership in the AI era, with Google playing both offense and defense.
In a massive data scrape, the shadow library group Anna’s Archive claims to have downloaded metadata for Spotify’s entire library. The trove includes info on 256 million tracks and 86 million actual song files. This move blurs the lines between digital preservation and outright piracy.
