Earlier this month, a hacker named Lovely claimed to have breached a Condé Nast user database and released a list of more than 2.3 million user records from our sister publication WIRED. The released ...

Composite data for country groups in the WEO are either sums or weighted averages of data for individual countries. Arithmetically weighted averages are used for all data for the emerging market and ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

Daniel Melser receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). This article has been produced by Daniel Melser in his role ...

Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred in June 2025, with the ...

Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in a recent breach of one of its databases. In a blog post late on Tuesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group said one of its ...

Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud. By Emily Badger As the Trump administration has sought to amass personally ...

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your ...