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A sell-off storm brewed over software stocks in Tuesday's session over growing AI concerns tied to Anthropic's (ANTH.PVT) new AI chatbot Claude. Lossdog Founder and CEO Tom Sosnoff and Yahoo Finance ...

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WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the ...

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

The Trump administration issued an emergency order Sunday night allowing Texas’ power grid operator to use backup generators from data centers and other facilities to prevent rotating outages over the ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

Abstract: Many cloud services perform periodic database backup to keep the data safe from failures such as sudden system crashes. In the database system, two techniques are widely used for data backup ...

As many states across the nation brace for a severe winter storm this weekend, the Department of Energy is advising grid operators to use data centers as backup generation sources in case of a power ...

State regulators cut funding late last year for a program that supports people with disabilities during disasters in Southern California. The background: The Disability Disaster Access and Resources ...

Days into his mayoralty, Mayor Mamdani got a significant political boost as he and Gov. Hochul announced a deal for universal child care. Mamdani should take it as a complete win on one of his main ...