TechCrunch looks back at the biggest data breaches, disruptive cyberattacks, and damaging hacks of 2025, from the raiding of U.S. government databases to a hack every month in South Korea.

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to hunt for near-Earth asteroids,” said Scientific American. Also, it could worsen the space junk problem, as “more hardware is launched and more debris and fragments fall back through the atmosphere.”

The data center boom continues in Indiana. But what are data centers, and why are people upset about them coming to our state? Here's what Hoosiers should know.

These AI campuses consume more power than major U.S. cities. Their footprints are measured in miles, not feet.

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI,

Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

As enterprises modernize, the question is no longer whether to use SAP or non-SAP tools, but how to make them work together effectively.

Coupang disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customers after unauthorized access to personal data went undetected for nearly five months. Penta Security explains how the incident highlights insider credential abuse risks and why encrypting customer data beyond legal requirements can reduce exposure and limit damage.

In the past decade, Apple has positioned itself as a privacy-first company. It has butted heads with law enforcement for encrypting people’s phones, messages, and FaceTime calls, and battled Facebook over its creepy ad-tracking practices. But Apple’s ...

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Without cooling, data centres fall over. In November, a cooling system failure at a data centre in the US sent financial trading tech offline at CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator. The company has since put in place additional cooling capacity to help protect against a repeat of this incident.