Tootfinder

The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…

FTC Reminds Data Brokers of Their Obligations to Comply with PADFAA
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-brea…

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

GitHub - Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools: Crowdsourced data tools
Crowdsourced data tools. Contribute to Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

What a surprise 😂
OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle - Slashdot https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/03/10/0510223/openai-is-walking-away-from-expanding-its-stargate…

What the data says about Ukraine’s mobilization crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/what-the-data-says-about.html

#DataRetention

Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.

»Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts:
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information that is now circulating on the dark web«
Which of you is surprised or even shocked - as you are not now? Unfortunately, many still naively believe that they have nothing to hide.
🤷

Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information.

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. 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.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

Wait Sama started talking Trump now, or was it always the case?
> Water is totally fake. It used to be true, we used to do evaporative cooling in data centres, but now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever, this is completely untrue. Totally insane. No connection to reality.

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret
The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to stop you from finding out. Google wants to build a new data …

Matia, which helps enterprises consolidate their data management operations, raised a $21M Series A led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/10/matia…

Matia raises $21M to help enterprises consolidate their data management operations - SiliconANGLE
Matia raises $21M to help enterprises consolidate their data management operations - SiliconANGLE

Researchers warn of AI, data centers’ water impact - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/researchers-warn-ai-data-centers-water-impact/411316/

💕 Data Love Is In The Air! Unter dem Motto "Where's the Data?" wird die Datenliebe im Rahmen der #LoveDataWeek vom 09.–13.02. mit zahlreichen Veranstaltungen zelebriert, und @… ist mit dabei 😍
HERMES | Humanities Education in Research, Da…

"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."

Data Over Dogma: What We’ve Lost in Social Media Discussions
I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, and thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to consider other viewpoints—even without changing our minds—we’ve lost something important.

Data Over Dogma: What We’ve Lost in Social Media Discussions – Bob Mueller
Why post on social media if not for discussion? A reflection on disagreement, echo chambers, and why thoughtful conversation matters.

oh nice, redpocket brought back my favorite sim plan (for my kids), and they upgraded it!
For $30/yr, you get unlimited text/talk, and 200MB per month. For those of you with low data needs (or who specifically want to limit their kids data usage): https://www.ebay.com/itm/136840233242

$2.50/Mo RedPocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: UNLIMITED Talk /Text + 200MB | eBay
Choose the network that works best for you and your phone! THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. B. Text Services. 200MB 5G Data. E. RedPocket service plans are for individual use only and not for resale.

Trump Posted Unpublished Jobs Data Early in Social Media Post (Reade Pickert/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/trump-posted-unpublished-jobs-data-early-in-social-media-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p43#a260109p43

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Fedibirdでは、投稿の右下のところに参照・引用した投稿を一覧するボタンがあります。
みんなこの投稿にどんな言及してるのかなーって思ったら、ここから辿るといいですよ。
QT: https://misskey.io/notes/ahcjjwkgcno80bix

Alice im Kartonagenland
Italienische Reise im Grand Palais: In ihrer Ausstellung „Grottesco“ baut Eva Jospin imaginäre Architekturen und Landschaftsreliefs aus Karton und Stickerei.
https://zeitung.faz.net/data/667/reade

RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science.
A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened
America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
https://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p36

America's vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
By Pratik Pawar / Vox. View the full context on memeorandum.

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operator-fabricated-seismic-risk-data/

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.

A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/nscale-ai-data-center-boom.html

The Former Coal Miner in the Middle of the A.I. Data Center Boom
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats

Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/nielsen-gracenote-lawsuit-openai…

Scoop: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement
This lawsuit could set a new precedent for how data providers, in the media industry and outside of it, protect their intellectual property.

You're looking for something that's readable but more efficient and smaller than #JSON or #YAML?
Structure data with #ASCII control codes like people did in 1963!

from my link log —
New Zealand geodetic datum deformation model.
https://www.linz.govt.nz/data/geodetic-system/datums-projections-and-heights/geodetic-datums/new-zealand-geo…

Irgend jemand scheint unter "Digitale Souveränität" etwas ganz anderes zu verstehen als der Rest der Welt.
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty

Five bold Super Bowl 2026 predictions that sound far-fetched -- until you look into the data

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lx-bold-predictions-data-preview/

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

Una lectura mšs que obligatoria para entender lo que conlleva “la nube”
https://www.cloudwards.net/deep-dives/the-data-center-water-wars/
@…

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/profound-impacts-record-ocean-heat-intensifying-climate-disa…

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/profound-impacts-record-ocean-heat-intensifying-climate-disa…

Cowboys Don't Chase Big Free Agents (5-Year Data) https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-dont-chase-big-free-agents-5-year-data

Arizona GOP Gives FBI Largest County's Election Data - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/arizona-gop-gives-fbi-largest-countys-election-data/

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

Michigan Judge Rebukes Justice Department's Effort to Obtain Voter Data (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/michigan-judge-voter-data.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p112#a260210p112

Heute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.

I’m delighted to hear more people talking about data poisoning in the context of mass surveillance.
This video has YouTube Syndrome (overlong to reach 10 min, filler, spends too long teasing the actual info), but starts getting into the heart of it around 3:45.
I was hoping for more actionable advice about active poisoning toward the end, and not just “like nicer stuff on social media,” but…good start, glad people are talking.
https://chaos.social/@afelia/116048491771210434

"Rethinking TXT Files"
#RDM #ResearchData

Ohio Democrats warned Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) Monday
over his decision to hand over the sensitive voter data of nearly 8 million Ohioans to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The dispute escalated after reports confirmed LaRose had transferred the statewide voter registration database to the DOJ as part of its nationwide investigation into how states are maintaining their voter rolls.

Ohio Dems put GOP elections chief on notice for handing voter data to Trump DOJ
This isn’t the first time LaRose has danced to DOJ’s tune.

Metacurity operates outside the infosec news echo chamber to track patterns, context, and connections that most other sources miss.
Check out today's issue for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google,
--Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering,
--Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported,
--Discord to demand face scans or…

Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google
Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering, Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported, Discord to demand face scans or government IDs, Hacktivist scraped 500k payment records from stalkerware apps, Promotei botnet still excels at stealing passwords, much more

»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
🤷

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

Data reveal a significant acceleration of global warming since 2015 #climate

Data reveal a significant acceleration of global warming since 2015
Global warming has accelerated since 2015, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). After accounting for known natural influences on global temperature, the research team detected a statistically significant acceleration of the warming trend for the first time.

Trump-appointed judge dismisses DOJ attempt to access Michigan voter data
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5731653-doj-lawsuit-michigan-voter-data/

A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…

Samsung Defeats Texas’ Bid to Halt TV Tech Following Court Error
Samsung Electronics America can continue to use technology that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says allows it to unlawfully collect data on TV watchers, a judge ruled Friday.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p82#a260310p82

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…

Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE

New Jersey lawmakers OK plan to charge data centers for spiking electric costs - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2026/01/nj-lawmakers-ok-plan-charge-data-centers-spiking-electric-costs/410580/

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator,
--Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data,
--NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data,
--UK government launches $282m cyber action plan,
--Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura,
--Command injection flaw fou…

Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator
Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data, NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data, UK government launches $282m cyber action plan, Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura, Command injection flaw found in D-Link DSL routers, much more

Here are the agencies that were cut the most by Trump, new data shows (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/10/federal-cuts-trump-agencies-data/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p50#a260110p50

のびてるね、投票数
QT: https://fedibird.com/@tukine/115859321870564945

from my link log —
Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-spark
saved 2019-10-12

Pointer Based Data-Structures in SPARK
As seen in a previous post, it is possible to use pointers (or access types) in SPARK provided the program abides by a strict memory ownership policy…

China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/c…

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. 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.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

On Website Technicals (2026-01) - Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction... - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html

On Website Technicals (2026-01)
Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction...

Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Michigan's voter roll data (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-seeking-michigan-voter-roll-data-rcna258465
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p177#a260210p177

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

South Korea's Science Ministry blames Coupang's massive 2025 data leak on management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. 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. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data (Darius Tahir/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5704792/health-care-price-transparency-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p166#a260210p166

@… こちらを

On Website Technicals (2018-12) - Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-19.html

On Website Technicals (2018-12)
Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/xai-musk-data-center-missis…

Elon Musk's xAI to third data center in Memphis area
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday that this is the largest private investment in the state's history. The center, called MACROHARDRR, will be near Memphis, Tennessee, and is xAI's third in the area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong says it will house the world's largest supercomputer. The project faces scrutiny over environmental concerns, especially regarding air pollution near predominantly Black co…

Civil rights groups file motion to protect sensitive Kentucky voter data from Department of Justice
https://www.forwardky.com/civil-rights-groups-file-motion-to-protect-sensitive-kentucky-voter-data-from-department-of-justice/

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

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

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research home #dataset

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 242 nodes and 6594492 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This Startup’s Clever Way To Cut Health Costs Helped It Hit A $1.4 Billion Valuation
Garner Health uses data to identify the country’s best doctors based on quality and cost, then gives its customers’ employees financial incentives to go to them — which can save 12% on healthcare costs.

Kristi Noem and DHS do not deserve the benefit of the doubt (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/kristi-noem-dhs-ice-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p130#a260109p130

Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns
https://gizmodo.com/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns-2000731145

South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10 data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04e5603e-e87c-4035-90a5-03c3d1da3a2e

Is South Korea’s dominant online retailer an American company?
Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul over massive data leak

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Dozens of Kids Entered Foster Care After Immigration Agents Detained Their Parents (Jackie Llanos/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/immigrant-detention-deportation-foster-care-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p40#a260210p40

Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/nielsen-gracenote-lawsuit-openai…

Scoop: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement
This lawsuit could set a new precedent for how data providers, in the media industry and outside of it, protect their intellectual property.

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 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: the White House is drafting a voluntary pact seeking commitments from tech companies to ensure data centers don't raise electricity prices and more (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/09/tru…

Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/elon-musk-xai-permit-for-mississippi-plant-de…

Elon Musk's xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns
Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.

'Largest economic development in history': $20 billion dollar data center coming to Southaven (Hannah Kozlowski/Action News 5)
https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/01/08/largest-economic-development-history-20-billion-dollar-data-center-coming-southaven/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p106#a260108p106

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience.

Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02/05/the-ai-talent-wars-have…

The AI Talent Wars Have Hit Data Labeling
The AI Talent Wars Have Hit Data Labeling

New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-is-the-latest-state-to-consider-a…

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/ai-data-centers-land-c…

Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03…

Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade/taiwan-…

Taiwan exports to US overtake those to China on AI tech demand
Wider goods trade surplus in 2025 stokes worries over Trump tariff pressure

Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026

BCDR Firm Slide Raises $70M Series B To Fuel Global MSP Expansion: ‘The Train Keeps Rolling’
With new funding, Slide plans to expand into Europe, adds new platform capabilities.

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/mississippi-regulators-to-…

Elon Musk's xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
The NAACP has accused Mississippi regulators of rushing a meeting to approve xAI plans for a massive, methane-burning power plant in Southaven.

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/cred…

Credit Data Firm 9fin Seeks $1 Billion Valuation in Fund Talks
Debt intelligence provider 9fin Ltd. is in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of as much as $1 billion as it seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the highly competitive market for credit research.

Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 2029 is highly ambitious, but the idea is plausible (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a5cf86ec-47cb-448f-b4a3-56ca6390ad8e

As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil…

Niantic Spatial partners with Coco Robotics to integrate a visual positioning system trained on data from Pokemon Go and Ingress into a fleet of delivery robots (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/1

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel

Intel's Heracles Chip Speeds Up FHE Computing
Intel's Heracles chip speeds up encrypted data processing by up to 5000 times.

Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data…

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/

In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/openai…