@tante@tldr.nettime.org"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialSecurity — A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions
A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach.
📍 https://
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHackers steal data, extort $350,000 from massage parlor clients
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-03/national/socialAffairs/Hackers-steal-data-extort-350000-from-massage-parlor-cli…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM
@mia@hcommons.socialA conversation starter? 'Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI' from Europeana Pro and @… https://
@benb@osintua.euRussia turns over drone data to U.S. from alleged attack on Putin’s Valdai residence as CIA and NSA find no confirmation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/russia-turns-over-drone-data.html
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyBig Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioidk instead of hoping that your Big Tech software vendor—who had many data leaks before and was sued many times for abusing customer data—doesn't steal your data for AI training you could maybe not store your data in a Big Tech cloud
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEdtech company settles with FTC in wake of data breach https://therecord.media/illuminate-education-data-breach-settlement-ftc
@cdarwin@c.imMicrosoft and Google keep the energy consumption of their Dutch data centers secret
-- despite European reporting obligations.
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO)
received blank forms or no data at all.
The Dutch newspaper NRC reports that the government has no legal means to request the actual figures.
@axbom@axbom.me
@shriramk@mastodon.socialAbsolutely the worst thing about having *finally* built myself the analytics dashboard I wanted for my winter-time cycling data is that I'm going to spend too long looking at data and not enough time generating data, i.e., actually riding my bike. )-:
@datascience@genomic.socialDo you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/
@poppastring@dotnet.socialData regulators in Thailand said they are blocking the Sam Altman-founded company Tools for Humanity from collecting iris scans.
"The business model is based on the premise that it will become more difficult to tell humans apart from online AI avatars in the near future."
It sounds like we create a problem then found a business to solve the problem.
@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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal Data Is Disappearing (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p26#a260202p26
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMountain View police turn off license plate cameras after data sharing breach
https://www.mv-voice.com/public-safety/2026/02/02/mountain-view-police-turn-off-license-plate-cameras-after-data-sharing-breach/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyEarth.Org.UK (EOU) public data snapshot including home energy timeseries...
https://zenodo.org/records/18116386
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCortigent hopes to raise nearly $15 million through IPO https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1958489/000175392625001850/g085026_s1a.htm "there are about 82,000 Americans who could potentially benefit from the Orion system";
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCalifornia launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/weary-of-data-brokers-california-site-offers…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz@… I'd be willing to bet that the ownership of Medtech don't actually know where all their data is, e.g. backups. I'd be very surprised if no personal data is stored, unencrypted, offshore.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Compressing callstacks: a bitpacked DAG powered by a keyless hashmap.
https://superluminal.eu/compressing-callstacks/
saved 2025-12-01
@vosje62@mastodon.nlInvestigator breaches white supremacist sites, exposes users | Cybernews
https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/
'An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.'
@doktrock@toad.socialAmmonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026: A Year at the Crossroads for Global Data Protection and Privacy
https://fpf.org/blog/2026-a-year-at-the-crossroads-for-global-data-protection-and-privacy/
@…
@gray17@mastodon.socialspent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…
@padraig@mastodon.ie#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeLooks like a threat actor got massive and wide-scale access to UPenn systems.
The threat actor behind the attack contacted BleepingComputer, claiming the intrusion was far broader and that they had gained access to multiple university systems.
https://www.
@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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@newsie@darktundra.xyzJapanese retailer Askul confirms data leak after cyberattack claimed by Russia-linked group https://therecord.media/askul-confirms-data-breach-ransomware-incident
@cdarwin@c.imSpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers.
The fillin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJosh Shapiro to unveil plan for managing the data center boom in Pennsylvania (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/josh-shapiro-unveil-plan-managing-data-center-boom-pennsylvania-rcna257087
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p51#a260203p51
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, & thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to even consider other viewpoints, we’ve lost something important.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-ov…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialArizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."
"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay.&q…
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialCookies vs. Local Storage: What’s the Difference? When and Where to Use Each?
Cookies are suitable for authentication and session management, while local storage is ideal for storing non-sensitive data on the client side. This detailed guide explains why and when to use each.
🍪 https://www.permit.io/blog/cookie…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B , as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/kkr-led
@cdarwin@c.imSpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers. The filling speak…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Snubs States Asking Why the DOJ Wants Their Voter Data (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-administration-snubs-states-asking-why-the-doj-wants-their-voter-data/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p118#a251202p118
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo much happened over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Hackers who stole trove of sensitive UPenn data derides 'dog**** elitist institution',
--LLM giants are trying to stop indirect prompt injection attacks,
--Oz government warns of Cisco IOS XE flaws,
--Polish authorities probe cyberattack on online loan platform,
--Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about smar…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: 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
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEU’s top court rules that online marketplaces are responsible for processing of data in ads https://therecord.media/eu-top-court-rules-online-marketplaces-responsible-for-data-processing-ads
@axbom@axbom.me @metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity to catch up on the crucial infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed,
--Hot social media site for AI agents Moltbook left APIs exposed,
--28 malicious skills are targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
--Russian Legion warned Denmark of large-scale cyberattack,
--Notepad is probing reported security incidents,
--US DoJ s…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: 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
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy
Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Evaluating and Understanding the Geocoding of City Directories of #Paris (1787-1914): Data-Driven Geography of Urban Sprawl and Densification"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzUniversity of Phoenix says 'numerous individuals' impacted by Oracle EBS breach https://therecord.media/university-of-phoenix-data-breach
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMetacurity is back from a Thanksgiving holiday break with an extensive run-down of the critical cybersecurity developments since last Monday, including
--Some ChatGPT customer data was exposed by a breach at vendor Mixpanel,
--Lazarus Group suspected of $30.6m breach of Upbit,
--Korea's shopping platform Coupang hacked by a former insider to access 30m customers' data,
--Lazarus Group and Kimsuky are DPRK's most prolific hackers,
--Korea arrests four …
@cdarwin@c.im“My expectation is that within 10 years,
almost all new data centers will be built in space
purely because of the constraint that we’re facing on energy terrestrially”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-space?share_id=9034975
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCopper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cloud-data…
@cdarwin@c.imAlexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWhy do none of these articles even touch on how much data DOGE stole from the US government, how much damage they caused to the security of government IT systems, and how much DOGE exposed all of our data to foreign adversaries?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGlobal Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/
@cdarwin@c.imPalantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePres.Lee Jae Myung ordered a swift investigation Tuesday into the massive data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang and signaled that his administration may seek punitive damages to prevent similar lapses, calling the incident “astonishing” in scale and negligence.
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/106280
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok plans to invest $37.7B to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/tikto…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis would never happen in the US but it should.
Coupang interim CEO questioned for 12 hours over data leak probe
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/01/coupang-executive-questioned-allegation-destroy…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo Coupang didn't know it had been breached until one of its customers reported it to them.
This customer, surnamed Park, was informed of the breach by a stranger via email, who showed Park's 15 most recent emails with the retailer.
https://<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnowflake and OpenAI agree to a multi-year, $200M partnership to integrate OpenAI's models into Snowflake Cortex AI and the Snowflake Intelligence agent (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/snowflake-lands-usd200m-openai-partn…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe Dutch Data Protection Authority, the national privacy watchdog, told Het Financieele Dagblad that it has counted dozens of such AI-related data breach reports so far this year.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/30/dutch-privacy-watchdog-warns-rising-ai-ch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600 PB of data (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe Everest Group is demanding $6 million from Iberia Airlines as a ransom to stop the data it stole from being leaked or sold.
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2025/11/29…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSounds like the Coupang data breach was an insider job.
A former Coupang employee is believed to have stolen personal data after leaving the company by exploiting security vulnerabilities tied to server-side authentication keys and access tokens.
https://www.theinvestor.co.kr/article/1062
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeData breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12-29/business/industry/Data-breach-at-Korean-Air-leaks-30000-employee-records/2488168
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-data-breach-was-limited-to-servers-with-unclassified-documents/
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an alleged data breach, stating that it aff…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft plans to spend $7.9B on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo, 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.
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHalf of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDay AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/day-ai-sequoia-ai-crm
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80 tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/at-least-36-new-tech-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned in Vernon, a city near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musk-says-spacex-acquired-xai
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSalesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBrookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches AWS AI Factories to deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in customers' data centers (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-ta…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/spotifys-2025-wrapped-becomes-a-mul…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio
