At least half a million Australians have had their financial data compromised by this week’s youX hack, and it was easily preventable.

Hacker claims to have compromised 141 gigabytes of data from a MongoDB Atlas cluster, potentially affecting more than 600,000 loan applications across almost 100 lenders.

Politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers agree that tech companies should cover the power costs of artificial intelligence data centers. But they still fight over what “fair share” ...