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Kalshi signs a deal with the AP to license elections data starting with the 2026 midterms; AP will provide Kalshi with its vote count data and race calls (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/kalshi-ap-elections-data

Security — A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions
A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach.
📍 https://

Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred (SvD)
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-priva…

"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM

Mountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
https://www.mv-voice.com/public-safety/2026/02/02/mountain-view-police-turn-off-license-plate-cameras-after-data-sharing-breach/

Earth.Org.UK (EOU) public data snapshot including home energy timeseries...
https://zenodo.org/records/18116386

A conversation starter? 'Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI' from Europeana Pro and @… https://

Russia turns over drone data to U.S. from alleged attack on Putin’s Valdai residence as CIA and NSA find no confirmation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/russia-turns-over-drone-data.html

Big Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://

Microsoft and Google keep the energy consumption of their Dutch data centers secret
-- despite European reporting obligations.
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO)
received blank forms or no data at all.
The Dutch newspaper NRC reports that the government has no legal means to request the actual figures.

Explained: Image generators need so much data that there is no one at the companies that build them who can keep track of where the data comes from and what is actually portrayed in the source data. No one can take responsibility, which the bros embrace as a feature, not a bug.

That is why I am particularly bothered by generated images of children, as it has previously been shown that large datasets likely contain many images of abuse. There are such large amounts of images that it wou…

Absolutely the worst thing about having *finally* built myself the analytics dashboard I wanted for my winter-time cycling data is that I'm going to spend too long looking at data and not enough time generating data, i.e., actually riding my bike. )-:

Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

Critical Federal Data Collection Is Disappearing - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/critical-federal-data-collection-is-disappearing/

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Federal Data Is Disappearing (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p26#a260202p26

Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/hacktivists-claim-to-have-hacked-homeland-security-to-release-ice-contract-data/

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai https://www.404media.co/amazon-data-centers-on-fire-after-iranian-missile-strikes-on-dubai/

Cortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1958489/000175392625001850/g085026_s1a.htm "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system";

California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/weary-of-data-brokers-california-site-offers…

"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
👓

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

@… I'd be willing to bet that the ownership of Medtech don't actually know where all their data is, e.g. backups. I'd be very surprised if no personal data is stored, unencrypted, offshore.

Moving beyond Strings in #SpringData
https://spring.io/blog/2026/02/27/moving-beyond-strings-in-spring-data

"At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire."
“objects that struck the data center”. “objects”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

This is the email referring to NYC Open Data.
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This is an open question.
While searching on traffic counts, I came across this NYC Open Data website https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/datafeeds.shtml containing counts of unreadable license plates.

Investigator breaches white supremacist sites, exposes users​ | Cybernews
https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/
'An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.'

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

🤝 Seit 2020 berät und unterstützt der NFDI4Culture-Helpdesk Forschende und Kulturerbeinstitutionen zum Thema Forschungsdaten.
📅 Ab dem 17.03.2026 werden nun regelmäßig einmal im Monat Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen Konsortien @… NFDI4Culture, @…

2026: A Year at the Crossroads for Global Data Protection and Privacy
https://fpf.org/blog/2026-a-year-at-the-crossroads-for-global-data-protection-and-privacy/
@…

spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

US Electric Grid Heading Toward 'Crisis' Thanks to AI Data Centers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/data-centers-electric-grid

Was there a massive leak of a dangerous greenhouse gas in Iceland🇮🇸 in 2011 - or was it just a data📈 reporting error? European emission databases show that the Norðuršl aluminium factory🏭 in Iceland released 60 tons of SF₆ in 2011 — but no such emissions in any other year. It's so much that it is hard to believe this really happened. And that is not the only odd thing I found in emission databases.

You can literally (pardon the pun) reconstruct the training data works using the LLMs, to a high degree of completeness.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers.
The fillin…

Co poniedziałek muszę gdzieś się zmyć na godzinę - to miejsce zostanie już tradycyjnie odwiedzane co tydzień.

#microblog #sycylia

I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, & thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to even consider other viewpoints, we’ve lost something important.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-ov…

Not a huge fan of David “LNG” Eby but I’m with him on this one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-alberta-separatist-group-treason-9.7071107?cmp=rss

Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B , as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/kkr-led

This has to be some kind of record. Even for trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/

University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center confirms data leak following ransomware attack https://therecord.media/university-of-hawaii-ransomware-data-breach

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Check out today's Metacurity to catch up on the crucial infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed,
--Hot social media site for AI agents Moltbook left APIs exposed,
--28 malicious skills are targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
--Russian Legion warned Denmark of large-scale cyberattack,
--Notepad is probing reported security incidents,
--US DoJ s…

Not all heroes wear capes; some just wear ∀s and ⊃s.
https://forum.cspaper.org/topic/191/iclr-i-can-locate-reviewer-how-an-api-bug-turned-blind-review-into-a-data-apocalypse

NBC News plans to expand chief data analyst Steve Kornacki's role in the 2026 midterms with a "Kornacki Cam" that will stream on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers. The filling speak…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Cookies vs. Local Storage: What’s the Difference? When and Where to Use Each?
Cookies are suitable for authentication and session management, while local storage is ideal for storing non-sensitive data on the client side. This detailed guide explains why and when to use each.
🍪 https://www.permit.io/blog/cookie…

Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a "worker's tacit knowledge and experience", as textbook knowledge loses value (J. Scott Davis/Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2026/0224

"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html

I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Why do none of these articles even touch on how much data DOGE stole from the US government, how much damage they caused to the security of government IT systems, and how much DOGE exposed all of our data to foreign adversaries?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

"Evaluating and Understanding the Geocoding of City Directories of #Paris (1787-1914): Data-Driven Geography of Urban Sprawl and Densification"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it. 

Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy

Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…

This would never happen in the US but it should.
Coupang interim CEO questioned for 12 hours over data leak probe
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/01/coupang-executive-questioned-allegation-destroy…

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/

This message is brought to you by Amazon Web Services
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/27/data-center-moratorium-construction-pritzker-reeves/

AWS said objects struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-c…

So Coupang didn't know it had been breached until one of its customers reported it to them.
This customer, surnamed Park, was informed of the breach by a stranger via email, who showed Park's 15 most recent emails with the retailer.
https://<…

A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, adjusting consumption when asked (Eamon Farhat/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

<…

The Dutch Data Protection Authority, the national privacy watchdog, told Het Financieele Dagblad that it has counted dozens of such AI-related data breach reports so far this year.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/30/dutch-privacy-watchdog-warns-rising-ai-ch…

TikTok plans to invest $37.7B to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/tikto…

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-broker-breaches-fueled-do…

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Data breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12-29/business/industry/Data-breach-at-Korean-Air-leaks-30000-employee-records/2488168

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…

Snowflake and OpenAI agree to a multi-year, $200M partnership to integrate OpenAI's models into Snowflake Cortex AI and the Snowflake Intelligence agent (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/snowflake-lands-usd200m-openai-partn…

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-data-breach-was-limited-to-servers-with-unclassified-documents/
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an alleged data breach, stating that it aff…

Conduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions
as Ransomware Group Claims
⚡️ 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.
Letters began reaching affected individuals this month detailing a major data breach at #Conduent Business Services, LLC,
a government technology contractor that processes payments, healthcare claims, and back-office services for clients n…

How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-ta…

So, users in Korea will now be notified if they are involved in “possible” data leaks, not just definitive cases, and potential threats to their personal information under a new set of data protection measures.
This is like pre-crime for data breach notification.
…

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robot-data-startup-raises-60-million

OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600 PB of data (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…

An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o…

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…

Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/day-ai-sequoia-ai-crm

Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while adhering to Apple's privacy standards (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-discus…

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/iranian-crypto-outflows-spike-after-airstrikes/

Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musk-says-spacex-acquired-xai

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus signed a multi-billion deal with an unnamed customer to build a Melbourne data center with 18,400 Nvidia GB300 chips (Sharon Klyne/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.theat…

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/spotifys-2025-wrapped-becomes-a-mul…

Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-de…