Converting ZIP codes to latitude and longitude coordinates unlocks location functionality that ZIP code strings alone can’t support — distance calculations, radius searches, map markers, delivery zone ...

There are pieces of your life scattered all over the internet, and some of them are for sale. Data brokers amass web searches, financial records, and location data from millions of individuals and ...

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

Anthropic's logo appears on a smartphone screen. The Pentagon is in a heated battle with Anthropic, one of the most successful AI companies in the world—and the temperature is only rising. When ...

A new study published in Big Earth Data introduces Geo-Disasters, a new database designed to improve the usability of global disaster records for climate risk research and policy planning. Climate ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

The exterior of the Treasury Department is seen in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) The Treasury Department bureau in charge of fighting financial ...

A self-styled social networking platform built for AI agents contained a misconfigured database which allowed full read and write access to all data, security researchers have revealed. Moltbook was ...

The jury’s out on screen scraping versus official APIs. And the truth is, any AI agent worth its salt will likely need a mixture of both. AI agent development is off to the races. A 2025 survey from ...

Misconfigured Clawdbot servers exposed API keys, private chats and credentials, cybersecurity researchers warn after the AI assistant surged in popularity Cybersecurity researchers have raised red ...