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Reports say the Trump administration is weighing underwater datacenters off Maine and Alaska, and Lake Erie groups want a plan before anyone proposes one nearby.
Read more: Underwater datacenters may be next, and Lake Erie groups are worriedFederal web accessibility deadlines start April 26, 2027, and some nonprofits that take government money may be covered. Here is who should check now.
Read more: Website accessibility rules reach some nonprofits starting April 2027Hackers got into a records software vendor, and Social Security numbers and health details of patients at two New York counseling practices may have been taken.
Read more: Hacked software vendor exposes data of NY counseling patientsA $3.9M settlement over a 2022 ArCare data breach lets patients claim up to $5,000 in losses or about $100 in cash, plus free monitoring.
Read more: Health Center Data Breach Settlement Offers Payouts Up to $5,000A federal judge cleared four groups of Facebook users to sue Meta together over a tracking tool on hospital and pharmacy websites. Meta plans to appeal.
Read more: Judge lets patients sue Meta as a group over hospital website trackingMichigan says scammers are using Medicare sign-up season to get Medicare numbers by phone, mail and door knocks, and the deadline is Dec. 7.
Read more: Scammers target Medicare sign-ups to steal personal informationXero and Chaney & Associates expanded their partnership to link accounting, payroll and international payments for churches and faith-based nonprofits.
Read more: Xero and Chaney & Associates team up on money tools for churchesAirbnb will put $500 million into its nonprofit over five years so more disaster survivors and medical travelers can get free short stays.
Read more: Airbnb pledges $500 million to house disaster and medical emergency victimsFree AI chatbots are popular with doctors, and some hospitals now block them over patient privacy while others bring them in house.
Read more: Hospitals split on doctors using free AI chatbots with patient dataA nonprofit says Anthropic's AI is improving about twice as fast as before, mostly because the company uses AI to build it. Here is what that may mean.
Read more: AI is now helping Anthropic build its next AI, and progress has sped upA 2025 survey found 92 percent of nonprofits use AI, yet only about 15 percent have a policy for using it responsibly. Here is why that gap matters.
Read more: Most nonprofits use AI, but few have rules for using it safelyTwo health providers agreed to settle breach lawsuits, and affected patients can claim free credit monitoring and cash before January deadlines.
Read more: Two health providers settle data breach lawsuits, payouts availableAI scribes that record doctor visits are spreading fast. Louisiana and Rhode Island now require patient notice, and HIPAA does not.
Read more: Your doctor's AI note-taker may be listening, and some states now require a heads-upA draft Senate bill would set clearer review rules for medical AI and create a way to pay for AI services, so your doctor may use more of it.
Read more: Senate draft bill would pay doctors to use AI and set safety rulesAthenahealth, whose software many medical practices use for patient records, now connects to the Claude AI assistant. Whether your health data stays protected is unclear.
Read more: Athenahealth links its patient records software to Claude AIHCA Healthcare, Blossom Health, El Camino Health and UMMC reported breaches. Some exposed Social Security numbers and medical details, so patients should watch for letters.
Read more: Four health systems report data breaches, including HCA HealthcareUniversity Hospitals in Ohio still had systems offline on November 2 after a cyberattack. Two other recent incidents exposed Social Security numbers.
Read more: Ohio hospital system still has systems offline after cyberattackA small Brooklyn nonprofit is a main source of voting facts for big AI chatbots, and it says it is struggling to pay for that work.
Read more: AI chatbots get voting facts from a small Brooklyn nonprofitStony Brook researchers found doctors preferred an AI-written hospital discharge summary in 95% of cases reviewed, though a doctor must still check every draft.
Read more: AI-written hospital discharge notes beat doctors' versions in a studyMarathon Health says a caller posing as an IT worker got into its systems. Letters are going out to up to 5.7 million people, many of whom never visited a clinic.
Read more: Health Provider Marathon Health Breach Hits Up to 5.7 MillionA New York health IT company says an intruder took patient files, exposing birth dates, insurance details and medical histories for 49,467 people.
Read more: Hackers got into a New York health IT firm's files for nearly three monthsA hacker got into a Connecticut Medicaid payment account, exposing billing and insurance details for about 41,000 people. Social Security numbers were not included.
Read more: 41,000 Connecticut Medicaid Patients Had Billing Details ExposedA hospital AI chief says medicine has used AI for decades, and that forgetting this is risky. His advice for patients and leaders: judge AI by patient outcomes.
Read more: Hospital AI chief says medicine has used AI for decades, not just latelyThe White House declined to hand over key papers on its voluntary AI testing plan, even after agreeing in September to release documents. Here is why that matters.
Read more: White House withholds papers on its voluntary AI safety testing plan
