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

A Robot Data Startup Raises $60 Million
Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models, even paying people to record themselves completing tasks in homes and workplaces.As these data-collection efforts start to pay off, and robots take ...

Holy moly, there is a ton of cybersecurity news today so don't miss Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts ostensibly over inadequate data security,
--Salt Typhoon hacked senior UK officials for years,
--Pegasus spyware victim awarded $4.1m over Pegasus infection,
--US Marshals are probing alleged theft of $40m in confiscated digital assets,
--Nike is investigating a potential data brea…

Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts ostensibly over inadequate data security
Salt Typhoon hacked senior UK officials for years, Pegasus spyware victim awarded $4.1m over Pegasus infection, US Marshals are probing alleged theft of $40m in confiscated digital assets, Nike is investigating a potential data breach, UK radically ups number of facial recognition vans, much more

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

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

First steps in finding out what the National Data Library is supposed to be, I guess?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-data-library-progress-update-january-2026/national-data-l…

National Data Library: progress update, January 2026

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

The United States has instructed its diplomats to lobby against foreign governments seeking to tighten control over how American technology companies handle citizens' data, according to an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters.

US tells diplomats to push back on foreign data sovereignty rules
The United States has instructed its diplomats to lobby against foreign governments seeking to tighten control over how American technology companies handle citizens' data, according ...

The built-in database backup and restore feature in Kitten¹ (that actually works and is in the Kitten Settings section of every Kitten app) just saved my ass (again) :)
Thank you, past me ;)
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

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

Nvidia Discloses $3.5 Billion in Data Center Lease Guarantees
Nvidia said it has provided $3.5 billion in guarantees to companies leasing land, power and data center facilities, four times the amount it disclosed the previous quarter. The guarantees could help companies without credit ratings, such as AI cloud startups, secure coveted power resources and debt financing to build data centers. Nvidia said it provided the guarantees to “early-stage

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 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

Poisoning AI training data is, unfortunately, really not that hard.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

Pam Bondi Demands Access To Minnesota Voter Data and Food Assistance Rolls After Killing Of Alex Pretti | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2026/01/26/pam-bondi-demands-access-to-minnesota-voter-data-and-food-assistance-rolls-after-killing-of-alex-pretti/

Once upon a time when work was using its own email servers, I had to periodically archive my email accounts. I would create a new gmail account and just throw it up on there so the emails were still searchable in my mail client if the account was included…
Now I have a bunch of gmail accounts that have tens of thousands of emails form twenty years ago.
This is dumb... especially with storage the way it is these days.
So now I'm logging into those accounts, downloading the emails and any other Google data, and deleting the accounts from Google.
Fun Times, this long-time-digital-life life.
#Google #Data #KeepItOnYourDevice

The fastverse is a suite of complementary high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. #rstats

GitHub - fastverse/fastverse: An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R
An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R - fastverse/fastverse

Judge: IRS broke law 'approximately 42,695 times' in giving DHS data (Jeff Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p59#a260226p59

Yeah right.

Robert Hodges will give their talk on 'What's in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let's Build One!' at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/whats-kubernetes-data-platform-lets-build-one

“Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex” An interview on reconstruction risks by @…: https://www.

Interview: On data protection risks with medical research data
Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex. An interview on reconstruction risks.

FPF Releases an Updated Issue Brief on Vietnam’s Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Data
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-issue-brief-on-vietnams-law-on-protection-of-personal-data-and-the-law-on…

‘All brakes are off’: #Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/russia-selling-personal-data-leaks-probiv-ukraine-spies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

It is clear Trump now has another platform, after X , to control people in the US and feed them with disinformation. They supplement each other nicely with regard to age groups etc. If FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn also tighten their "moderation" with regard to anti-trump sentiments, an Orwellian picture emerges.
https://www.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Am I supposed to feel sympathy when someone keeps all their data on a single platform's "free" services & then loses access arbitrarily and has no access to "their" data?
I can certainly join them in anger again the #platform but, there really needs to be more awareness of the risks of becoming so dependent on companies and the need to keep control of your

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

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

Conduent Data Breach - Largest Data Breach in U.S. History As Ransomware Group Stolen 8 TB of Data
Conduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions as Ransomware Group Claims 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.

The #Enclosure feedback loop or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good:
“[…]something has been taken from the public. Not just the training data, but the public forums and practices that created this training data in the first place. […] LLM companies are now selling back to us something that used to be available for free.”

MS Now names Ali Velshi its chief data reporter, which will see him lead election results and polling on election nights for the cable channel (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Ali Velshi Named MS NOW’s Chief Data Reporter, Will Lead Election Night Board
The veteran journalist will lead election results and polling on election nights for the cable channel.

UN data shows 6.5 million people at risk of severe hunger from drought #environment…

UN data shows 6.5 million people at risk of severe hunger from drought
Nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger as worsening drought, conflict and global aid cuts intensify the country's humanitarian crisis, the federal government and U.N. agencies said Tuesday.

“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”

Today, I buy this one passive USB-C cable that supports 240W/80Gbps to ensure it works for my displays & laptops. (The spec limits cable length to 3.3ft however, the above 4.9' cable has worked fine for me):
▫️Cable Matters 4.9' #USB 4 Cable https://a…

I was interested in #Meshcore, but then I came across the website of the Meshcore Switzerland Community. Greeted by AI generated pictures I was appalled, but then I found this:
Work in progress vibe coding project, don't trust this data!
Nope, thanks, I'm outa here.
#meshcore <…

Kennt ihr schon unsere Solawi-Karte? Dort können Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher Solawis in ihrer Nähe finden.
Wir teilen nicht nur unsere Ernte, sondern auch unsere Software! 4 #Solawi-Dachorganisationen haben sich heute zur Frage der Finanzierung der Karte getroffen. Geeinigt haben wir uns auf eine #Beitragsrunde

GitHub - teikei/teikei: A web application that maps out community-supported agriculture in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, based on crowdsourced data.
A web application that maps out community-supported agriculture in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, based on crowdsourced data. - teikei/teikei

Crunchbase Confirms Data Breach After Hacking Claims
https://www.securityweek.com/crunchbase-confirms-data-breach-after-hacking-claims/

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08) - Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years' export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion - …

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08)
Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Weekend Reads
* IRR data quality
https://labs.ripe.net/author/tobias-striffler/the-irr-landscape-data-quality-the-good-the-bad-and-the-outdated/
* Roy Arends on DNSSEC

The IRR Landscape: Data Quality - the Good, the Bad, and the Outdated
In the second of our IRR landscape series, we focus squarely on data quality: how accurate, current, and usable IRR routing data really is. Using freshness, DFZ alignment and RPKI conflicts, we spotlight where third-party IRRs drift and why cleanup matters.

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/uber…

Exclusive: Uber launches an 'AV Labs' division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners | TechCrunch
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

My (Austrian) bank's online interface is rubbish (unless you download them every 3 months, you lose history data), but they do have other features I don't want to miss (online debit card use with TAN generator rather than app).
Given that undesired parties (such as Klarna) apparently can use access to bank accounts, are there actually useful fintechs that, for example, just provide sensible data exports on the user's behalf?

Authoritarian governments don't build surveillance systems from scratch—they weaponize existing infrastructure.
The US has a history of illegal surveillance: COINTELPRO, Carnivore, PRISM, warrantless wiretapping. Tech companies too willingly comply with government data requests.
Once your data leaves your control, it can be accessed by any administration with enough legal pressure—or disregard for it.
Now is a good time to rethink smart home devices and reduce your digi…

Für den #Windpark Sundern#Allendorf wurden alle 15 #Rotorblätter nach rund vier Monaten Transportdauer geliefert.
Die nächtlichen Schwerlastfahrten auf der 19,5 Kilometer langen Strecke stießen auf großes öffentliches Interesse. Wetterbedingte Verzögerungen machten flexible Planung…

AI company which trains its models on stolen data accuses other AI companies of stealing data 🤣
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude - Slashdot https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/23/1810225/anthropic-acc…

What metrics actually matter at the NFL Scouting Combine? I looked at the data https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7073861/2026/02/26/nfl-combine-what-metrics-matter/

Nike probes potential cyber incident after hackers claim data leak https://therecord.media/nike-probes-alleged-cyber-incident

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

I'm sure algorithms designed by people with biases and an agenda, based on data from people with biases and an agenda, marketed by people with biases and an agenda and used by people with biases and an agenda will act perfectly neutrally!
Anyway here's a good read on epistemic vigilance in [commercial] LLMs (tl;dr it's not possible) https://bsky.app/profile/mjcrockett.bsky.social/post/3mfrbukoy5c2s

Life Hack for those without unlimited downloads:
If you go over your limit, make sure to reupload that data so you don't get charged extra! :blobcatthinksmart:

Justice Department Sues 5 States, Most Republican-Led, for Voter Data (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/politics/justice-department-sues-5-states-voter-data.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p123#a260226p123

@… このへんかなー
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TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-outage-data-cent…

TikTok says a power outage messed up users' feeds over the weekend
TikTok said a power outage at a US data center on Sunday impacted its services, including its For You feeds.

Highlight a certain aspect of your data in ggplot: #rstats #dataviz

Dems demand records from anti-voting groups on DOGE 'voter data agreement' (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dems-demand-records-from-anti-voting-groups-on-doge-voter-data-agreement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p106#a260227p106

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/microsoft-water-ai-data-centers.htm…

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

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 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Added `target` and `data-*` to the list of safe attributes you can specify within curly brackets when writing Markdown in Kitten.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
#Kitten

Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE | Federal News Network
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/02/court-says-the-irs-can-continue-to-share-immigrants-taxpayer-data-with-ice/

"Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection found that hackers breached all seven public-sector systems tested in a simulated cyberattack, exposing serious weaknesses in the government's protection of large volumes of personal data."

Hackers breach all tested public-sector systems in Korean audit board's simulated cyberattack
Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection found that hackers breached all seven public-sector systems tested in a simulated cyberattack, exposing serious weaknesses in the government's protection of large volumes of personal data.

FPF releases issue brief on Vietnam’s Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Data
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-issue-brief-on-vietnams-law-on-protection-of-personal-data-and-the-law-on-data/

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

American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

Metacurity is the daily intelligence report that thousands of infosec professionals rely on to cope with news overload.
Check out today's issue, which covers critical developments you should know, including
--Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day,
--OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds,
--Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data,
--Only a small fraction of new vulnerabil…

Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day
OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds, Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data, Only a small fraction of new vulnerabilities are exploited, Mississippi Medical Center closed through Friday, Anthropic denies it won't support military cyber action, much more

{piggyback} makes it easier to attach large files (e.g. input data) to code in github repos: #rstats

GitHub - ropensci/piggyback: :package: for using large(r) data files on GitHub
:package: for using large(r) data files on GitHub. Contribute to ropensci/piggyback development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

🥳 New Kitten¹ release
• Added `initialise()` hook to `kitten.Component` instances.
This gets called at the end of the constructor and is handy if you don’t want to override the constructor and have to handle the `data` parameter and remember to call `super(data)`. You can still access passed data from `this.data`.

Note that the component is not part of the view hierarchy on the client at this point. If you have tasks you need to perform only once per page – for example, ins…

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Congress authorized the SAVE program to help states ensure eligibility for public benefits applications
-- not to block American citizens from voting.
With substantial new changes to the SAVE program,
there is even more reason for election officials to exercise caution when using the system and interpreting its results.
SAVE is a tool for verifying citizenship.
Like other large-scale data sources,
it has flaws, exacerbated by an aggressive overhaul.
T…

Homeland Security’s “SAVE” Program Exacerbates Risks to Voters
Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters.

Getting serious about data breaches in Kazakhstan
January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches
https://meyka.com/blog/january-23-kazakhstan-moves-to-criminalize-mass-data-breaches-2301/

January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches | Meyka
Australia-focused take on Kazakhstan data breach law, criminal penalties and $42,500 fines, risks for banks and fintechs, and clear compliance steps for investors.

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24 US projects were blocked in January alone (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f45d45fc-c0ea-463c-8edf-38fb99ed5c05

ICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p35#a260125p35

“So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza … And this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.”
– Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
“They trust their own eyes and…

Wall of Carnage Gazans, Olive Trees and Mosques
In the small town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where I live, during Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip, a Democratic Party activist hung a flag of the state of Israel across the way from the only grocery store in town -- so that almost every member of the community would see it.

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587773/patient-data-changed-as-major-nz-health-app-medimap-hacked

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
MediMap director says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and NZ Police have been notified.

Chinese government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, primarily iPhones, rose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/foreign-bran…

Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/apple-supplier-corning-win…

Meta inks deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers
Corning, a 175-year-old glassmaker known for supplying iPhone glass, is now at the center of the AI infrastructure boom with a new type of fiber-optic cable

This is why it's shameful when publications hype unverified cyber breaches to generate clicks, particularly when they're basing their reports on what threat actors say on their leak sites.
IDMERIT, a global ID verification service and KYC provider, was the subject of a dozen reports of a data breach, all stemming from one publication that likes to hype fake stories.
Lately, I've seen some usually bona fide cyber publications picking up on these clickbait but false sto…

“Data of Billions Leaked” or Did It? IDMERIT Targeted by Fake News of a Data Breach
Fake news regarding an IDMERIT data breach exposes the dark sides of digital operations, where unbacked reports add to extortion attempts.

Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-iphone-ipad-nato-classified-sec…

The iPhone in your pocket is now trusted for classified NATO data
NATO approved iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 devices for classified use up to the 'restricted' level, and that's a big deal. Here's why.

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

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/rowspace-sequ…

Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data
Rowspace was founded by former Notion CTO Michael Manapat and former Uber corporate development director Yibo Ling.

For those who missed how the Coupang data breach in Korea became a flat-out crisis, the Korea Economic Institute of America has produced this nifty timeline.
https://keia.org/the-peninsula/the-coupang-data-breach-a-timeline/

The Coupang Data Breach: A Timeline - Korea Economic Institute of America
South Korea’s largest online retailer suffered a massive data breach last year that exposed the personal information of more than 33 million users.

Seagate reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.83B, vs. $2.73B est., forecasts Q3 results above estimates on strong data storage demand; STX jumps 8% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/seagate-f

The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Google Android Told by EU to Open Up to Rival AI Systems
Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers in the latest round of its Big Tech crackdown.

It looks like Wynn actually paid ShinyHunters the $1.5 million ransom, likely allowing them to escape the $100 million-level in costs MGM incurred when refusing to pay a ransom to the same people.
https://www.casino.org/news/wynn-resorts-co…

Wynn Resorts Data Breach Confirmed After Cyberattack
Wynn Resorts has confirmed a breach resulted in 800,000 employee records stolen by hackers, while a ransom payment remains unconfirmed.

A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor.
I gave the new ChatGPT Health access to 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements. It drew questionable conclusions that changed each time I asked.

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/…

Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/oracle-stock-on-pace-for-worst…

Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI build-out
Investors want to know if Oracle, under new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, can pay for and deliver data centers packed with Nvidia chips for OpenAI.

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-23/business/tech/Compl…

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
U.S. investors in Coupang sought intervention in the Korean government's probe of the e-commerce giant over a data leak, potentially escalating the domestic investigation into an international trade conflict.

Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility "to ensure we pay 100% of the costs" tied to the campus (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/amazon-louisiana-ai-data-centers.html

Amazon to spend $12 billion in Louisiana on AI data centers
The project comes as Amazon has committed up to $200 billion this year on AI investments, which include data centers, chips and networking equipment.

Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/po

My sister used to teach courses for the University of Phoenix. Ugh.
University of Phoenix data breach impacts nearly 3.5 million individuals
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-phoenix-data-…

University of Phoenix data breach impacts nearly 3.5 million individuals
The Clop ransomware gang has stolen the data of nearly 3.5 million University of Phoenix (UoPX) students, staff, and suppliers after breaching the university's network in August.

Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/nimble-way-raises-47m-to-giv…

Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data | TechCrunch
Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database.

Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)
https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/02/21/turkey…

Turkey reviews major social media platforms' handling of children’s data - Turkish Minute
Turkey’s data protection watchdog has opened a review of how six major social media platforms process children’s personal data, as Ankara prepares separate legislation that would tighten state control over online accounts and content.

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Vantage to build more OpenAI sites (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5605d086-289e-4b5f-803b-4c13666976a5

Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (Bloomberg)

Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-coforge-acquire-us-based…

Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data cleanup and system integration (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/indian-it-firms-are-doing-fine

The AI Revolution Needs Plumbers
How Indian IT learned to stop worrying and sell the AI shovel

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Strikes Multibillion-Dollar AI Chip Deal With Meta, Sharpening Nvidia Rivalry
Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rentGoogle’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it.Meta has also been talking to Google about ...

Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-on…

There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year
Data from Domain Name Stat reveals that the top-level domain originally assigned to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla passed the milestone in early January.

Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867670/microsoft-maia-200-ai-chip-announcement

Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is launching a successor to its custom in-house AI chip. The Maia 200 goes up against Amazon and Google’s latest AI chips and is rolling out now.

Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/hackers-stole-…

Hackers stole over $2.7B in crypto in 2025, data shows | TechCrunch
This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/24/google-change-gmail-addresses/

Google says it is ‘gradually rolling out’ option to change your @gmail.com address
Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.