@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
@datascience@genomic.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeGrubhub confirms hackers stole data in recent security breach
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grubhub-confirms-hackers-stole-data-in-recent-security-breach/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toStudy of a wideband high data rate implantable antenna for cortical visual prosthesis #BCI
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pornhub-extorted-after-hackers-steal-premium-member-activity-data/
Uh oh
PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNearly 20 million affected by Prosper, 700Credit data breaches https://therecord.media/data-breaches-affecting-20-million-prosper-700credit
@servelan@newsie.socialThe DOJ's effort to get voter data from California is blocked : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/15/nx-s1-5678969/doj-voter-data-california-dismissal
@vosje62@mastodon.nl/2
Zelf heb ik de luxe gehad om ooooit, helemaal in het begin, aan te lopen tegen een heel vervelende lock-in van mn data. Daardoor ken ik al heel lang de waarde van data.
Jarenlang leefde ik dus in een parallel universum wat Windows betreft en kijk eigenlijk met stomme verbazing hoe MS kennelijk de kans kreeg om dat de facto monopolie op te bouwen.
M365 is een logische stap om verder elk tarief te kunnen gaan vragen.
En dat dan helemaal los van de toegang tot -alle data- als t zo uitkomt.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe backlash against Trump is showing up in hard data, not just polls (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-backlash-hard-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p17#a260215p17
@hanno@mastodon.socialI got a few updates about my investigations on EU emission databases after the 39C3 talk and the corresponding newsletter I published. Update below the article:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/errors-and-inconsistencies-in-european-e…
@haayman@todon.nlDe EU schiet wel echt heen en weer tussen goede bescherming van de burgers en dan weer spioneren
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Online Data Retention
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-revives-plan-for-year-long-data-retention
@mickgeek@social.linux.pizza
@brichapman@mastodon.socialHithium just made a bold move into long-duration energy storage with three major launches: a massive 1,300Ah battery cell, a 6.9 MW/55.2 MWh system, and a lithium-sodium hybrid specifically designed for power-hungry AI data centers.
The goal? Solve renewable energy's intermittency problem while meeting AI's exploding electricity demands.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePCIe update: added some FIFOs to simplify flow control management.
Fixed some other bugs and we're now generating a valid-looking completion TLP and sending it out via AXI stream to the data link layer.
But it doesn't go out on the wire yet because I don't actually have a transmit path for TLPs yet. (And forget retransmits and such that will come much later)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines
@cdarwin@c.imA new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.
💥The mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging,
according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data, which recently released its Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.
🔥According to New York Fed data,
the 90-plus-day mortgag…
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialLOL NRW
Es ist 2026 und irgendwie gibt es da einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Unfähigkeit sein Leben zu führen und ein Land zu führen.
Bild 1: NRW hat die meisten Orte mit dreckiger Luft https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/data/luftverschmutzung-in-nrw-100.html…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA clean peak on the evening of 13 December UTC in the #Geminids this year: the meteoroids flux per volume and time plotted vs. time from global video data, in https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/plots/flux_GEM_sol=256.00-266.00_year_2025_full.png from https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ - the peak came right at the expected time and is matching the global radio echo data https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzahttps://justthebrowser.com/
"Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you just the browser and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for com…
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social"Members of the public have reportedly also shared information about agents in hotels and even neighbors.
“I’ve had hotel staff sending post-it notes, bar staff sending DHS IDs, and loads of people saying their neighbour is an agent,” Skinner said."
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-l
@cjust@infosec.exchangeWe just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
Support
So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePersonal information associated with airport operations, vendors, and potentially some traveler-facing services may have been exposed in a breach at Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust (TAIT).
The official announcement, however, is disconcertingly vague.
https://flytulsa.com/news/notice-of-da
@newsie@darktundra.xyzJaguar Land Rover confirms staff data stolen in cyberattack https://therecord.media/jaguar-land-rover-confirms-staff-data-stolen-cyberattack
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” – https://
@servelan@newsie.socialA judge says she’ll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/judge-blocks-trump-administration-snap-recipients-data-af9113866b0138699e96ce173d53a58e
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgNew study by the National Bureau of Economic Research: A survey of 6000 CFOs, CEOS throughout US, Europe, UK and Australia comes to the conclusion that businesses predict that "AI" will improve productivity by a whopping 1.4%. Truly earth shattering.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836
@TFG@social.linux.pizzaWant to get rid of unwanted stuff in your webbrowser - like telemetry or #ai
There's a git project for FF, Chrome and Edge and a website:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/jus
@memeorandum@universeodon.comReport: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p4#a260116p4
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a "grid-to-GPU" power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/as-a
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSimple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Feed sensitive internal data into an LLM. Include private credentials.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115896936490108026
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThis might cause some "interesting" side effects...
"Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-leak/
@noellabo@fedibird.com4月頃に書いた、アメリカが強権を振るってきたらウチでもこのへんにリスクあるよって話
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/114346909273228167
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedblp_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
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDoxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFord plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFIFA makes Stats Perform its first official data and betting streaming rights distributor to licensed sportsbooks for the 2026 World Cup and other events (Rohith Nair/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/fifa
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThinking about decoding some of the more complicated protocols in ngscopeclient more fully on the GPU.
Let's take I2C. for example. I have a 2x 10M point capture coming off my STM32MP2 / Kintex-7 testbed that takes about 188 ms to decode on the Xeon 4310 on my lab workstation (lots of idle time with just a few packets).
The decode can accept either sparse or uniformly sampled data; right now it's getting uniform data at 100 Msps which is overkill but the ThunderScope does…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe final order approved by the Commission imposes a five-year ban on GM disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies.
https://www.ftc.gov/new…
@datascience@genomic.social{dtrack} makes documentation of data wrangling part of the analysis and creates pretty flow charts: #rstats
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deproduct_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFrench data regulator fines telco subsidiaries $48 million over data breach https://therecord.media/france-data-regulator-fine
@vosje62@mastodon.nlVanmiddag testte Odido trouwens of mn data goed was ingesteld in mn duo sim.
En het werkte als gepland: bij uitval wordt niet automatisch van de andere provider gebruik gemaakt.
(Uiteraard kan ik dat handmatig doen, maar die prepaid-data is me te duur voor 'zomaar' gebruik.
Wel een verschil met vroeger* dus..
Is een maandelijkse 4/5g storing het nieuwe normaal?
* voor vorig jaar heb ik jaren dagelijks data gebruikt oa lange tijd audio zonder ooit maar een storing. Afgelopen jaar: elke maand.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://veganism.social/@vega/116082348193137301
“Israeli military data identifies over 50,000 foreign nationals, including Western and Arab citizens, serving during the Gaza genocide.
…
According to figures published by Yedioth Ahronoth and d…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCybersecurity news is not slowing down ahead of the holidays, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia switches up tactics in cyberattacks on energy companies, Amazon,
--ShinyHunters stole search and watch history of PornHub's premium members,
--Contributor to DraftKings breach and data theft pleads guilty,
--Email outage at German Bundestag was not a cyberattack but doubts linger,
--Ha…
@dawid@social.craftknight.comDzisiaj niedziela - czyli dzień zakupów i ogarniania serwisu.
Warzywa i owoce to zdecydowany plus... Ostatni miesiąc żona jest na diecie low FODMAP (niska ilość fermentujących oligo- di- i monosacharydów oraz polioli) co wymaga dużej ilości wybranych warzyw i owoców - no i te półki to zbawienie tutaj.
1/2
#microblog
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet
@servelan@newsie.socialTina Peters appeals Colorado convictions over voting machine data leak | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/tina-peters-appeals-colorado-convictions-over-voting-machine-data-leak/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCanadian investment regulator confirms hackers hit 750,000 investors https://therecord.media/canada-ciro-investing-regulator-confirms-data-breach
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993
But it’s OK, don’t worry about your governments in the EU and UK giving all your healthcare data to Palantir, they’d never do that here.
Pinky promise.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS BLS data: video and videogame subscriptions and rentals saw inflation of 19.5% in December; cable, satellite, and livestreaming rose 1.1%, same as music subs (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_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
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @Techmeme@techhub.socialThe cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (Andrew McCalip)
https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeKorea's Fair Trade Commission is threatening to shut down Coupang's business altogether in connection with a massive data breach.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260114/suspension-of-coupang-feasible-scena…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare-ai-human-native-acquisition.html
@newsie@darktundra.xyzTexas sues 5 smart TV manufacturers over data collection practices https://therecord.media/texas-sues-5-smart-tv-makers-over-acr-tech
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Trump officials might boycott RSAC citing Easterly's CEO position,
--Grubhub confirms data breach,
--China's UAT-8837 breached CIC orgs in N. America,
--Hackers exploit top severity flaw in Modular DS WordPress plugin,
--Flaw in MD CPUs exposes secure virtualization environment,
--Gemini 'personal intelli…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover (Matthew Chin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-us-
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChartbeat data: global Google search referrals to publishers fell by 33% in the year ending November 2025, with US-specific organic search traffic down 38% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-p…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWith so much going on in the world, check out today's Metacurity for a one-stop run-down of the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft took down massive cybercrime platform RedVDS,
--Google's Fast Pair protocol enables hackers to connect with audio accessories,
--Shipping-related firm Bluspark Global patched a raft of flaws,
--Kimwolf botnet may have hit its maximum potential,
--CNIL fined French mobile companies for data bre…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEqual1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/0
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-w
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeKorea has had it up to here with all these data breaches
Coupang beset on all sides after data leak sparks full-scale regulatory assault
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/n
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 17 nodes and 146 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt's finally Friday but don't head out for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--UK ICO fines LastPass $1.6 million over 2022 data breach,
--Cybercrims impersonate cops to get sensitive data on users,
--Throwaway phone numbers undercut SMS 2FA,
--Chinese inverters threaten the power grid,
--Second Irish HSE attack revealed,
--Irish Justice Minister apologizes for gaffe ov…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/fintech-lending-giant-fi…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton thrust the state into the national spotlight by launching a sweeping investigation into what he described as potentially the largest data breach in U.S. history.
https://www.kxxv.com/news/texas-news/texas
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @Techmeme@techhub.socialData analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/blackstone-lea
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGrid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pjm-unveils-plan-tackle-ai-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (Silla Brush/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-stock-market-ai-bubble-a3c8c321
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTaiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Ireland, an early data center winner, missed out on much of the current AI boom, hampered by creaking infrastructure and a strained electricity grid (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/ireland-wants-to-get-bac…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/o…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropi…
