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@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-04 07:05:29

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted doz…

Marquis data breach impacts over 74 US banks, credit unions
Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted dozens of banks and credit unions across the US.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-05 10:25:52

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-05 09:42:04

from my link log —
What we’re talking about, when we talk about data destruction.
free-dissociation.com/blog/pos
saved 2026-01-0…

What We’re Talking About, When We Talk About Data Destruction
When I wrote my post back in May of last year about Apple’s recycled hardware reuse policy, I found myself frustrated by how hard it was to talk about how well a storage device had been destr…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 18:00:33

"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-05 05:17:10

Flock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF's Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer | KPFA
Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-03 18:32:05

idk instead of hoping that your Big Tech software vendor—who had many data leaks before and was sued many times for abusing customer data—doesn't steal your data for AI training you could maybe not store your data in a Big Tech cloud

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-03 22:35:53

Meanwhile on the #Sun as seen by SDO HMI jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/im at 21:53 UTC today ... the big groups (1)4296 and 4294 at the bottom as well as 4299 at the top keep marching towards the center of the disk, but not much has happened since the X1.9 flare two days ago. (The Kp forecast in spacepager.eu/data-products/fo sees something interesting three nights from now, though, but such long-term views are notoriously unreliable.)

@datascience@genomic.social
2025-12-04 11:00:01

This looks helpful: #rstats #optimization

Fast Tidying of Data
Tidying functions built on data.table to provide quick and efficient data manipulation with minimal overhead.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-04 16:00:05

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,…

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003). 34546 nodes, 421578 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/arxiv_citation#HepPh

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.

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-03 07:05:26

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.
📍

A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions | TechCrunch
We sent over a dozen questions to Mixpanel's CEO about the company's data breach. Here's what we want to know.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 18:36:46

Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal (James Faris/Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/kalshi-cnb

Prediction giant Kalshi strikes a new media partnership with CNBC, days after its CNN deal
Prediction site Kalshi is partnering with CNBC, days after striking a deal with CNN. Prediction sites are popular but getting regulatory pushback.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-12-05 11:44:00

#TGIQF: Star Trek – Next Generation: Das Quiz
Die Star-Trek-Abenteuer um Picard, Data und Co. gelten bis heute als eine der beliebtesten SciFi-Serien. Im heise Quiz beamen wir Sie ins nächste Jahrhundert.

#TGIQF: Star Trek – Next Generation: Das Quiz
Die Star-Trek-Abenteuer um Picard, Data und Co. gelten bis heute als eine der beliebtesten SciFi-Serien. Im heise Quiz beamen wir Sie ins nächste Jahrhundert.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-01-04 16:45:46

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-04 19:25:18

#Ørsted will juristisch gegen den Stopp seines Offshore-Windparks #RevolutionWind vorgehen.
Das fünf Milliarden Dollar teure Projekt vor der US-Ostküste wurde kurz vor Fertigstellung durch die Regierung #Trump

Orsted will gegen Stopp von 5-Milliarden-Dollar-Windpark vor US-Küste vorgehen
Oslo, 02. Jan (Reuters) - Der dänische Energiekonzern Orsted will juristisch gegen die Aussetzung seines milliardensc…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-03 16:06:11

Josh Shapiro to unveil plan for managing the data center boom in Pennsylvania (Allan Smith/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/2028-elec
memeorandum.com/260203/p51#a26

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-01-05 03:23:02

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

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-02 13:00:05

"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)

AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-12-04 15:42:02

[M]any consumers might not realize the privacy risks just by glancing at the flyer sent to them, according to Florian Schaub, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
"The privacy policy is very specific that we're going to track everything, including what you do in Incognito Windows. Previously anonymous data may now be identifiable. All those risks are not disclosed here," Schaub said, after reviewing a copy of the flyer.

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro (@redcrew@mstdn.social)
No thanks. Google promises gift cards to some who agree to hand over data https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tompor/2025/12/04/google-mailer-promises-gift-cards-for-data/87379726007/ #Google

@noellabo@fedibird.com
2026-01-04 12:45:10

お賽銭箱だね（違います）
QT: pokemon.mastportal.info/@natsu

@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-04 17:58:33

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

Sarah Taber (@sarahtaber@mastodon.online)
Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply. Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/

@emilis@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-04 09:30:42

> Officials acknowledge that European satellites are vulnerable to interference, and that possible intercepts could not only compromise sensitive information but also allow Moscow to manipulate their trajectories.
news.liga.net/en/politics/news

FT: Russia may have intercepted data from key European satellites
Two Russian spacecraft suspected of conducting electronic reconnaissance over Europe and intercepting confidential information

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-02 18:46:41

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

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-04 08:03:21

Some people want to shield data from AI use, interestingly there is also the exact opposite.
hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/1

The Global Race to Build AI-Ready Scientific Datasets - BigDATAwire
In the wake of the Genesis Mission, it’s become obvious that data is stepping into a role we once reserved for hardware. The United States didn’t commit to faster chips […]

@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
2026-01-02 21:43:21

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!

Big Tech blocked California data center legislation, leaving only a study requirement
Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the issue by 2027.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-12-04 05:24:39

I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.

Serial console showing reads of all zeroes from the bus
ngscopeclient protocol analyzer view showing reads of the first three words in the config space returning valid data, followed by a write of 0x00 to offset 0x10
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-02-01 20:12:27

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

Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data
Background: Many resources and professionals reference the 3-2-1 backup rule as an effective strategy to prevent active research data loss. However, the changes in storage technology and the pace of research data growth have outgrown the 3-2-1 rule. Objectives: The authors want to contribute background information and invite community input to evolve the 3-2-1 rule to fit modern research data and storage better. This evolution would provide better information to research data management profes…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 07:15:57

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
latimes.com/business/story/202…

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-03 18:28:41

University of Phoenix says 'numerous individuals' impacted by Oracle EBS breach therecord.media/university-of-

University of Phoenix says 'numerous individuals' impacted by Oracle EBS breach
The private, for-profit University of Phoenix is the latest school to disclose that it suffered a data breach due to a vulnerability in Oracle's E-Business Suite.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-05 12:06:47

Coupang is facing scrutiny after a data leak revealed that major portions of its Korean-language service were built and maintained by Chinese devs--the main suspect in its recent breach is a former Chinese employee who worked on the company’s authentication systems.

Coupang Data Breach Raises Scrutiny of Foreign Developer Hiring, Including Large China-Based Teams - Be Korea-savvy
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is facing intensifying scrutiny after a major data leak revealed …

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2026-01-04 07:46:30

The rapid decline of #StackOverflow et al in the age of #AI slop data.stackexchange.com/stackov

@newstik@social.heise.de
2026-02-03 18:26:16

Here is the solution for the #AI #energy crunch: We put the AI data centre in a glacier, for cooling. That melts the glacier. We use the meltwater to create CO2-free hydropower to power the AI data centre.
Circular economy! Just what the wokeists ask for.
How could anyone be against this?

…
@axbom@axbom.me
2026-01-03 09:49:15
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…
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-04 03:24:56

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin next week
to block nutrition assistance funding for states led by Democrats
that have not provided data on fraud in the program, Secretary Brooke Rollins told President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
USDA sought data from states earlier this year related to their administration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits, Rollins said Tuesday.
She added the data was needed to address fraud t…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-02 17:12:35

Critical Federal Data Collection Is Disappearing - Joe.My.God.
joemygod.com/2026/02/critical-

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-03 18:00:04

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

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020). 23 nodes, 3197 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_baboons#observational

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. The observational data contains all the behavioral events registered by an observer, with 8 columns: - DateTime: Time stamp of the event, namely the moment the observed behavior was registered. In case of STATE events (events with duration > 0), it refers to the beginning of …

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-04 17:24:04

Haha, sorry MAGA, turns out you can’t power all those aspirational AI data centers without renewables. Wow, if they built a bunch of renewable infra and then the bubble popped, that’d be just (*snicker*) terrible…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-05 11:29:03

So the city of Houston is blaming its firefighters for clicking on a link in an email the city sent to them that intended to share information about the firefighters’ promotion exam but instead linked to a bunch of social security numbers in the clear.
Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed

Houston data breach exposes firefighters’ personal info, union says they’re being blamed
Houston firefighters say they’re being unfairly blamed after a city email exposed 7,500 Social Security numbers in a data breach.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-04 00:25:58

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/home
memeorandum.com/260203/p127#a2

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-05 01:05:00

Thanks, clanker fluffers
aftermath.site/steam-machine-f

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-04 17:16:09

One guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 20:31:09

CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalsh

Exclusive: CNN strikes prediction data partnership with Kalshi
The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-03 15:00:53

So if you care about technology and its impact on the material world I have a treat for you: @…'s "99th Day" is out.
It is a book showing the data on the material impact that technology, data centers and all that have on our world and is willing to ask the big questions. It's an uncomfortable book and that is good. Check it out!<…

99th Day: A Warning About Technology

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 13:55:51

The Tow Center releases a tracker that monitors lawsuits, deals, grants, and other developments between news publishers and AI companies (Klaudia Jaźwińska/Columbia Journalism Review)
cjr.org/analysis/lawsuit-licen

Lawsuit or license? A new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between publishers and AI companies.
Announcing a new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between news publishers and AI companies.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-04 07:00:04

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

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020). 23 nodes, 3197 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_baboons#observational

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. The observational data contains all the behavioral events registered by an observer, with 8 columns: - DateTime: Time stamp of the event, namely the moment the observed behavior was registered. In case of STATE events (events with duration > 0), it refers to the beginning of …

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-04 17:48:33

the rise and fall of stackoverflow
the graph of posts per month is quite something
the decline over the last four years is almost a mirror of the rise 2008-2012
and they are now down to near zero
data.stackexchange.com/stackov

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-04 00:55:57

The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (Sam Sabin/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/03/virgina-t

Virginia brothers arrested for allegedly tampering with government databases
The brothers worked for a contractor and previously pled guilty for hacking into the State Department.

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-01-01 15:17:56

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

Earth.Org.UK (EOU) public data snapshot including home energy timeseries
Snapshot of public data file set from EOU including energy and IoT data. This includes detailed timeseries data during the target home (16WW) transition to utility energy net zero. NOTE: there are some third-party data and other files present which may not be covered by CC0: these should be called out in local README files and similar.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-02-04 08:38:25

Thousands of officers and staff employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been offered payments of £7,500 (€8,700) after a data breach resulted in their personal details being published in error.
irishtimes.com…

PSNI officers and staff affected by data breach offered £7,500 compensation each
Spreadsheet of initials, surnames, ranks and roles of 9,500 employees was released in error

@datascience@genomic.social
2025-12-03 11:00:01

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

Advanced and Fast Data Transformation in R
A large C/C++-based package for advanced data transformation and statistical computing in R that is extremely fast, class-agnostic, robust, and programmer friendly. Core functionality includes a rich set of S3 generic grouped and weighted statistical functions for vectors, matrices and data frames, which provide efficient low-level vectorizations, OpenMP multithreading, and skip missing values by default. These are integrated with fast grouping and ordering algorithms (also callable from C), an…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-02-01 20:13:41

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

Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers
The data services landscape continues to change rapidly. From shifting cloud file storage platform quotas, to rising storage costs, to increasing focus on multi-disciplinary projects, rapid changes warrant an evolving collaborative approach toward data services. Data librarians and research computing professionals in this context are increasingly becoming “boundary-spanners,” a term we invoke to articulate the role data librarians and data professionals play in exploring collaborations acro…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-04 00:19:50

The Department of Homeland Security
has been quietly demanding
tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration,
according to reports.
In several cases over recent months,
Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These s…

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-02 21:01:37

US Electric Grid Heading Toward 'Crisis' Thanks to AI Data Centers | Common Dreams
commondreams.org/news/data-cen

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-04 14:39:56

Every day is a big cyber news day, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Twin brother hackers arrested for US government hacking, data destruction spree,
--GRU cyber ops sanctioned into Skripal poisoning inquiry,
--Defenders scramble to patch React Server Components' critical flaws,
--AI agents match human attackers in smart contract exploits,
--AZ Atty. General sues Temu for customer …

Twin brother hackers arrested for US government hacking, data destruction spree
GRU cyber ops sanctioned into Skripal poisoning inquiry, Defenders scramble to patch React Server Components' critical flaws, AI agents match human attackers in smart contract exploits, AZ Atty. General sues Temu for customer data theft, Threat intel experts recorded DPRK IT recruiters, much more

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-05 08:25:53

A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-05 13:35:53

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-dat
memeorandum.com/251105/p30#a25

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-05 07:00:15

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 456626 nodes and 14855842 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012). 456626 nodes, 14855842 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/twitter_higgs#social

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.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-05 04:08:47

The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies
turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports.
In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These subpoenas have also…

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 01:15:53

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/02/04/kkr-and-si

KKR and Singtel to acquire remaining stake in data center firm STT GDC for over $5 billion
The deal pegs the enterprise value at S$13.8 billion.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-05 10:00:16

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 456626 nodes and 14855842 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012). 456626 nodes, 14855842 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/twitter_higgs#social

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.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-04 11:06:52

Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
apnews.com/article/arizona-tem

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-05 13:15:59

Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record (Albert Sun/New York Times)
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/1
memeorandum.com/251205/p19#a25

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-03 15:13:56

Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.

That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-05 00:01:54

Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

This 24 Year Old Built A Multibillion-Dollar AI Training Empire In Eight Months
Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company’s valuation from $80 million to $2.5 billion.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-05 07:00:05

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

cora: CORA citations (1998). 23166 nodes, 91500 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cora

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 14:25:40

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-02-03 11:54:18

Mountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
mv-voice.com/public-safety/202

Mountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
All of Mountain View's license plate cameras are being disabled, effective immediately, Police Chief Mike Canfield announced Monday afternoon.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 11:55:39

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
reuters.com/world/china/china-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-02 14:10:39

Federal Data Is Disappearing (NOTUS)
notus.org/trump-white-house/fe
memeorandum.com/260202/p26#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 05:10:53

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
news.crunchbase.com/venture/mo

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-02 19:57:34

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.

How much energy do Microsoft and Google consume? The Dutch don't know
Microsoft and Google keep the energy consumption of their Dutch data centers secret, despite European reporting obligations. The Netherlands Enterprise

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-02 23:20:35

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)
pcmag.com/news/weary-of-data-b

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-04 15:00:04

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 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018). 403 nodes, 1417485 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_colocation#SFHH

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. We release here 6 co-presence data sets. The contexts in which these data were collected are: a workplace, with data collected in two different years (InVS13, InVS15), a hospital (LH10), a primary school (LyonSch…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-02 21:30:40

Trump Administration Snubs States Asking Why the DOJ Wants Their Voter Data (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
democracydocket.com/news-alert
memeorandum.com/251202/p118#a2

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-05 13:00:04

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 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018). 100 nodes, 394247 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_colocation#InVS13

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. We release here 6 co-presence data sets. The contexts in which these data were collected are: a workplace, with data collected in two different years (InVS13, InVS15), a hospital (LH10), a primary school (LyonSch…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-01 01:26:28

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…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-02-02 14:47:16

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…

StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed to US feds
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 seized pirated content domains, more

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-01 01:16:10

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…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 23:20:53

Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/arizona-tem

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-03 01:00:03

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

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020). 23 nodes, 3197 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_baboons#observational

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. The observational data contains all the behavioral events registered by an observer, with 8 columns: - DateTime: Time stamp of the event, namely the moment the observed behavior was registered. In case of STATE events (events with duration > 0), it refers to the beginning of …

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-01 14:04:03

Metacurity is back from a Thanksgiving holiday break with an extensive run-down of the critical cybersecurity developments since last Monday, including
--Some ChatGPT customer data was exposed by a breach at vendor Mixpanel,
--Lazarus Group suspected of $30.6m breach of Upbit,
--Korea's shopping platform Coupang hacked by a former insider to access 30m customers' data,
--Lazarus Group and Kimsuky are DPRK's most prolific hackers,
--Korea arrests four …

Some ChatGPT customers' data were exposed by a breach at vendor Mixpanel
Lazarus Group suspected of $30.6m breach of Upbit, Korea's shopping platform Coupang hacked by a former insider to access 30m customers' data, Lazarus Group and Kimsuky are DPRK's most prolific hackers, Korea arrests four for hacking 120K IP cameras, OnSolve CodeRED platform hit by attack, much more

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-31 11:35:56

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)
wired.com/story/data-centers-a

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-30 12:00:34

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.
nltimes.nl/2025/12/30/dutch-pr

Dutch privacy watchdog warns of rising AI chatbot data leaks
The number of reported data breaches linked to workplace use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini is rising sharply in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, following a recent leak involving the municipality of Eindhoven.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 01:24:07

Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/investing/soft…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-05 13:56:05

Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-d

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta's new partners include USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-03 21:46:05

AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 05:50:57

Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans (Michelle Chan/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/90aa74a5-b39d-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 07:21:06

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
on.ft.com/4qCvVap

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 12:50:35

Sources: Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to hyperscalers like Alphabet (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/c0428010-1373-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 07:35:49

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)

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-02 17:30:47

US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/cloud-dat

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-03 20:01:31

Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in AI data centers amid a global supply shortage (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/micron-ex

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 10:10:45

A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/world/india/why-big-te…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 11:35:40

A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40 teams, as it releases FM26 (Chris Allnutt/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/a4f4860f-4eb9-4

Why Football Manager just keeps winning
Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women’s teams into the game

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 00:50:57

Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/musk-tesla-compen

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-02 09:10:59

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)
wsj.com/business/deals/kkr-led

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 03:46:00

Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-57014

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-04 07:05:57

In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by "YOLO-ing" and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-31 05:05:56

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)
openai.com/index/inside-our-in

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-02 15:10:55

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)
thedeepview.com/articles/snowf

Snowflake lands $200M OpenAI partnership
Snowflake has established itself as a top data cloud provider. Now, it’s partnering with OpenAI to bring AI-powered data insights to users. On Monday...