It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal

Facepalm: Microsoft released an update for a recently unveiled zero-day vulnerability in Windows Defender, but the patch is apparently making things even worse. The researcher who first discovered the “RoguePlanet” flaw quickly found some potentially dangerous problems in the patch as well. The feud between “NightmareEclipse” and Microsoft continues to hold unpleasant surprises for the…

Peptides are inching closer to the mainstream. A panel of experts on Thursday narrowly recommended that the Food and Drug Administration reclassify four popular peptides—including one endorsed by podcaster Joe Rogan—to allow certain pharmacies to legally dispense them. In an at-times emotionally charged meeting that lasted more than 11 hours, members of an FDA advisory…

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Popular AI chatbots such as Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT can analyze data from spreadsheets and other uploaded files. You can upload spreadsheets and ask them to create summaries, find patterns, and more. I wanted to use ChatGPT to analyze my spending to see if it could find ways to save money, but I didn’t want…

Databricks and Microsoft are forging deeper ties with an expansion to the duo’s decade-long partnership, with a fresh focus placed on data management. As part of the move, Databricks said it plans to expand use of Azure Databricks in core business operations and build a new, unified data lakehouse. The move will also see the…

Ask ChatGPT for a chapter in the voice of Stephen King and it now says no. It offers instead to write something with “the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and small-town dread,” while staying “its own.” OpenAI has quietly changed how its chatbot handles author imitation, Ars Technica reported after testing it. The model declines…