US government requests for user data from technology companies has skyrocketed by 770% in the past decade, a new research report has concluded. In total, information from more than 3.5 million ...

Google is making it harder for scammers to steal your identity — and the effort can’t come soon enough. The tech giant quietly updated its “Results about you” tool on Feb. 10, expanding it to allow ...

Big quote: The FBI's ongoing use of commercially purchased location data reignited debate in Washington this week over how far law enforcement can go in monitoring Americans' digital footprints ...

What did CME Group change? The exchange group ended its end‑of‑day (EOD) licenses in 2025 and began offering EOD (settlement) data under delayed‑data licenses, while also consolidating multiple ...

BNP Paribas said Anthropic had the most significant increase in visits and users after its Super Bowl ad, beating out other AI companies. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google Gemini all aired Super Bowl ...

Crystal ball: A seemingly minor update to the Steam beta client might lay the groundwork for Valve to collect performance data for many games across a wide variety of PCs. While the company's plans ...

A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, ...

TikTok said Wednesday that it's rolling out a new local feed that shows videos from nearby businesses and services based on users' precise geolocation data. Users of the social media platform will now ...

As part of Safer Internet Day, Google unveiled updates to its “Results about you” and non-consensual explicit image removal tools. The “Results about you” tool already allows users to remove Search ...

Shares of Spotify Technology SA jumped the most in nearly eight years after the Swedish music streaming giant added a record number of users last quarter, far surpassing analysts’ expectations. The ...

Bing is giving websites their first look at how content performs in AI-generated answers. A new AI Performance dashboard shows citation counts, page-level data, and trend lines. "Grounding queries" ...

Hackers have exposed personal and contact information tied to SoundCloud accounts, with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned reporting impacts to approximately 29.8 million users. The ...