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Congressman Ro Khanna is pushing for what he calls a Data Center Bill of Rights, arguing that communities should have a meaningful say when tech giants want to plant massive power-hungry facilities in their backyards. It's a rare moment where a sitting lawmaker is treating infrastructure as a civil question, not just an economic one.
On a darker note, security researchers have flagged a critical vulnerability in Metabase, the popular open-source analytics platform, scoring a perfect ten on the CVSS severity scale. The flaw allows unauthenticated SQL injection through the password reset flow, meaning an attacker doesn't even need an account to potentially access your database. If your organization runs Metabase, patching this is not optional.
And Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist often called the godfather of deep learning, is once again sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. His latest observation is blunt: it is hard to see how you prevent bad actors from using it for bad things. Coming from someone who helped build the foundation of modern AI, that's not pessimism for its own sake — it's a warning rooted in hard-won understanding.
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