Tootfinder

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

Gov't to notify people of possible data leaks, not just confirmed cases
Users will now be notified if they are involved in “possible” data leaks, not just definitive cases, and potential threats to their personal information under a new set of data protection measures.

The UNFCCC makes it needlessly difficult to download emission data📊📈
The UNFCCC🇺🇳 is most famously known for being the organizer of the climate conferences (COPs). However, they also play an important role in collecting and managing emission data.
https://i…

Why is it needlessly difficult to access UNFCCC Emission Data?
Due to international climate agreements, countries report annual data about their greenhouse gas emissions to the UNFCCC. However, downloading and using that data is a lot more difficult than it should be.

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.

{nplyr} has helper functions to work on nested dataframes: #rstats #datascience

A Grammar of Nested Data Manipulation
Provides functions for manipulating nested data frames in a list-column using dplyr syntax. Rather than unnesting, then manipulating a data frame, nplyr allows users to manipulate each nested data frame directly. nplyr is a wrapper for dplyr functions that provide tools for common data manipulation steps: filtering rows, selecting columns, summarising grouped data, among others.

Wer mag, kann mir heute um 13:45 zuhören (nur auf dem Congress, wird nicht gestreamt oder aufgezeichnet): https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/hakuna-data-eine-sehr-kurze-einfuhrung-in-kiswahil

[39c3] Hakuna Data: Eine (sehr kurze) Einführung in Kiswahili, lexikographische Daten auf Wikidata und Wikifunctions
Angenommen du reist nach Nairobi zu einer Wikimedia-Konferenz, lernst gerade so Touri-Phrasen wie "Hujambo" und "Asante", und plötzlich beginnst du dich für die Datenstruktur der Sprache zu interessieren. Das ist mir dieses Jahr passiert. Swahili ...

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

Stell dir vor, deine Armee macht ein paar Tage Pause weil du das Service-Abo nicht rechtzeitig bezahlt hast 🤦‍♂️
Defense Contractors Lobby To Kill Military Right-to-Repair, Push Pay-Per-Use Data Model - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.or…

ICE wants all the federal funding , all the government data, all the surveillance technology it can get its hands on. Now it wants to track people using data it can source from technology and advertising companies. It is a malignant black hole.
ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you
https://www.<…

ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you
: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents

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,…

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.

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Millionen Kundendaten vom Wired-Magazin im Netz – Diebstahl bei Condé Nast?
Have I been Pwned listet einen Data Breach für Wired, der sensible Daten von 2,3 Millionen Nutzern umfasst. Mutmaßlich könnten weitere Millionen folgen.

Advance Your Career in Data & AI with Fabric Data Days! Experience 50 days of live learning, hands-on challenges, and certification opportunities designed for data professionals at every level.
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OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack
Mixpanel reported that the attack “impacted a limited number of our customers” and resulted from a smishing (SMS phishing) campaign that the company detected on November 8.
OpenAI received details of the affected dataset on November 25 after being informed of Mixpanel’s ongoing investigation.
The AI company notes that the exposed information may include:

• Name that was provided to …

OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack
OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel.

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

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

Japanese beer giant Asahi says ransomware attack may have exposed data of 1.5 million people https://therecord.media/asahi-says-ransomware-incident-exposed-data

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

Regardless what the US and russian propaganda is saying, Russia is not winning...
"Data on Russian forces’ rate of advance indicates that a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, and a rapid Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk Oblast is not imminent. Russian advances elsewhere on the frontline have been opportunistic and exploited seasonal weather"

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 26, 2025
Data on Russian forces’ rate of advance indicates that a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable.

Wrote a paradox flaw today …
Network confused: #rpg

Interesting German project on granular tracking of renewable energy for (public) EV charging, and the use of data spaces to enable safe data exchange between various actors
https://www.dena.de/infocenter/gruener-strom-zum-mitnehmen/

Grüner Strom zum Mitnehmen
Wie sorgen virtuelle Bilanzierung und digitale Verbrauchsnachweise für Transparenz über grünen Strom bei Ladevorgängen? Antworten liefert das Factsheet.

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…

“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.

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

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

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

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of unjustifiable arrests
Government data shows that more than 60 percent of the people detained in at-large arrests since June did NOT have criminal convictions or pending charges.
-- even as authorities insist that immigration officers are focusing on violent criminals whom they describe as “the worst of the worst.”

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows
The agency has moved away from focusing on arresting migrants at local jails to tracking them down in communities, a Washington Post analysis found.

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.

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

#SSD #Dataloss
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/26/a-frie

A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants might have all solidified and t…

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/

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

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:

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.

RE: #Mauve is but one of 140 (!) small satellites on that Falcon 9, collectively known as Transporter 15. What's interesting about the satellite is its commercial approach - you *buy* astronomical UV data: https://bssl.space/mauve/ and https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/06/blue-skies-space-to-launch-mauve-satellite-demonstrating-a-new-model-for-delivering-space-science-data/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/startup-pioneers-subscription-service-space-based-astronomy

ウチ（社）に出入りしてる佐川さんも忙しすぎて死んでるのだわ
QT: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2066443.html

‘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

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.”

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

Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…

‘No more low-tier data centre approvals in Johor’
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.

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…

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/WIRED
Wired was breached.

Have I Been Pwned: WIRED Data Breach
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online. The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.

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

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

CME Group says trading on its markets, including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cme-trading-halted-due-cooling-issue-data-cen…

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

Check out today's Metacurity to stay up-to-date on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT,
--Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches,
--Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack,
--EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire,
--Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR,
--Mustang Panda can steal logi…

The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT
Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches, Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack, EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire, Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR, Mustang Panda can steal login data from browsers, much more

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

If you were dumb enough to hand over your DNA & biological fingerprint to Ancestry or 23andme, why stop there?
With Oura, you can hand over your daily health information to a corporation that can be subpeona'd or have your data stolen from!
People have been denied health insurance or disqualified for benefits because of data discovered about one's past health that should be protected...
...but who cares? Tech is cool, right? 🤨
From:

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/

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.

product_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 …

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dartmouth-college-confirms-data-breach-after-clop-extortion-attack/
Dartmouth College confirms data breach after Clop extortion attack

Dartmouth College confirms data breach after Clop extortion attack
​Dartmouth College has disclosed a data breach after the Clop extortion gang leaked data allegedly stolen from the school's Oracle E-Business Suite servers on its dark web leak site.

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…

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

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/data-breach-victims-0b01a5ab
“Nearly one-third said a breach had affected their physical well-being. And nearly a quarter said their relationships were negatively affected.”
Now triple that for cybersecurity defender…

The Hidden Emotional Toll on Victims of Data Breaches
We all know there’s a potential financial impact when a company’s data is hacked. But victims’ suffering goes far beyond that.

Singapore-based Digital Edge plans to invest $4.5B to build a 500 MW hyperscale data center facility in Indonesia, with the first phase set to open in Q4 2026 (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

"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.

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.

dom: 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 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

Google agrees to pay $135M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant programmed Android to illegally collect users' cellular data (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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

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.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

How an indirect prompt injection can manipulate Google's Antigravity IDE to invoke a malicious browser subagent and exfiltrate data; Google is working on a fix (PromptArmor)
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/24/civil-liberties-groups-call-for-inquiry-into-uk-data-protection-watchdog
Dozens of civil liberties campaigners and legal professionals are calling for an…

Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog
Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data,
--An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram,
--Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies,
--DOGE has purportedly disbanded,
--Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked,
--AI models can sabotage coding projects, …

Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data
An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram, Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies, DOGE has purportedly disbanded, Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked, AI models can sabotage coding projects, Singapore raids scam-connected firm, much more

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/bank-data-hack.html

A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating.
SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.

high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 4339 nodes and 5472 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 116920 nodes and 133415 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

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

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Analysis: since 2023, data center power demands have delayed 15 coal plants' retirements; the Trump administration has ordered two power plants to remain open (Ariel Wittenberg/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/27/a

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

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

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab "devoted to solving the data efficiency problem", raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index, and others (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

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,…

Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/science/alphagenome-ai-deepmind-genetics.htm…

With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/1…

Exclusive: Bedrock Data raises $25M to secure enterprise AI
Greylock Partners led the Series A.

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…

Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-is-en

OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and it terminated its Mixpanel use (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident

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.

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

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.

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.

Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/redwood-attra…

Redwood attracts Google for its $425M Series E as AI power needs rise | TechCrunch
Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.