Tootfinder

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

#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?

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.

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

“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.

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

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,…

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…

{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.

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/

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

ふと思い立って調べたら、まったく同じことをつぶやいていた
https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/115573414837041053

‘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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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…

Trump möchte also nicht, dass wir digital unabhängig werden? Danke für die Empfehlung!
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-202…

Health insurance tech provider TriZetto says more than 3 million impacted by 2024 breach https://therecord.media/trizetto-healthcare-tech-company-data-breach-update

🛰️ Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-satellite-reveals-insights-sustainable-groundwater.html

Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
Groundwater is a critical resource in Southern California, where long-term drought and climate change place increasing pressure on local aquifers. Some regions, like the Hollywood Basin (a small region in and around the West Hollywood neighborhood), are increasing their reliance on these aquifers in order to reduce the amount of water imported from elsewhere. A new Caltech-led study provides the most detailed picture to date of how the Hollywood Basin responds to groundwater usage, revealing th…

"Is academic research becoming too competitive?
Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition."
Sobering numbers from funding institutions in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

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.

On Website Technicals (2026-01) - Tech updates: mail chatter, new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo, data correction, anti-herding, parallelisation, order, coverage policy... - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html

On Website Technicals (2026-01)
Tech updates: mail chatter, new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo, data correction, anti-herding, parallelisation, order, coverage policy...

ProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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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?

🏗️ Problem 4: Architecture decay. Classes become dumping grounds for random data: $user->cached_data, $user->temp_flag, $user->random_stuff. Code becomes unmaintainable.
✅ Modern PHP solution: Declare all properties explicitly with types. Use public string $name; public int $age; public bool $isActive; in your class definitions.

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…

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/

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

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/

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

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

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…

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/…

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

🥳 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.

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/

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

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 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Localized Dynamics-Aware Domain Adaption for Off-Dynamics Offline Reinforcement Learning
Zhangjie Xia, Yu Yang, Pan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21072 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21072
arXiv:2602.21072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Off-dynamics offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn a policy for a target domain using limited target data and abundant source data collected under different transition dynamics. Existing methods typically address dynamics mismatch either globally over the state space or via pointwise data filtering; these approaches can miss localized cross-domain similarities or incur high computational cost. We propose Localized Dynamics-Aware Domain Adaptation (LoDADA), which exploits localized dynamics mismatch to better reuse source data. LoDADA clusters transitions from source and target datasets and estimates cluster-level dynamics discrepancy via domain discrimination. Source transitions from clusters with small discrepancy are retained, while those from clusters with large discrepancy are filtered out. This yields a fine-grained and scalable data selection strategy that avoids overly coarse global assumptions and expensive per-sample filtering. We provide theoretical insights and extensive experiments across environments with diverse global and local dynamics shifts. Results show that LoDADA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art off-dynamics offline RL methods by better leveraging localized distribution mismatch.
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A look at the top data journalism projects of 2025, including stories on conflict, climate, AI, and social media and disinformation (Hanna Duggal/Global Investigative Journalism Network)
https://gijn.org/stories/2025-editors-picks-data-journalism/

Editor’s Pick: Best of Data Journalism from 2025
Our roundup of standout data journalism from the past year highlights projects that delve into conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Africa, that explore the rise of AI, and interrogate global trade wars.

Reddit has been fined £14.47m by the UK's data watchdog for unlawfully using children's personal information.
#reddit

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks
The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

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.

South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses.
Available data shows that only 2% of the state’s measles cases have resulted in hospitalizations. Some infectious disease experts fear significant underreporting.
Some doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.
Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.

Medical device firm UFP says backup data systems deployed following cyberattack https://therecord.media/ufp-technologies-medical-devices-sec-filing-cyberattack

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

I don’t think people understand how bad this is going to get.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/data-centers-will-consume-70-percent-of-memory-chips-made-in-2026-supply-shortfall-will-cause-the-chip-shortage-to-spread-to-other-segments

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

Here's a reality check on Trump's AI pledge (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/powering-data-centers-rising-despite-trump-pledge-00797346
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p40#a260225p40

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.

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

UrbanFM: Scaling Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models
Wei Chen, Yuqian Wu, Junle Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yuxuan Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20677
arXiv:2602.20677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban systems, as dynamic complex systems, continuously generate spatio-temporal data streams that encode the fundamental laws of human mobility and city evolution. While AI for Science has witnessed the transformative power of foundation models in disciplines like genomics and meteorology, urban computing remains fragmented due to "scenario-specific" models, which are overfitted to specific regions or tasks, hindering their generalizability. To bridge this gap and advance spatio-temporal foundation models for urban systems, we adopt scaling as the central perspective and systematically investigate two key questions: what to scale and how to scale. Grounded in first-principles analysis, we identify three critical dimensions: heterogeneity, correlation, and dynamics, aligning these principles with the fundamental scientific properties of urban spatio-temporal data. Specifically, to address heterogeneity through data scaling, we construct WorldST. This billion-scale corpus standardizes diverse physical signals, such as traffic flow and speed, from over 100 global cities into a unified data format. To enable computation scaling for modeling correlations, we introduce the MiniST unit, a novel split mechanism that discretizes continuous spatio-temporal fields into learnable computational units to unify representations of grid-based and sensor-based observations. Finally, addressing dynamics via architecture scaling, we propose UrbanFM, a minimalist self-attention architecture designed with limited inductive biases to autonomously learn dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies from massive data. Furthermore, we establish EvalST, the largest-scale urban spatio-temporal benchmark to date. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UrbanFM achieves remarkable zero-shot generalization across unseen cities and tasks, marking a pivotal first step toward large-scale urban spatio-temporal foundation models.
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Innovation and Data Privacy Are Not Natural Enemies: Insights from Korea’s Experience 
https://fpf.org/blog/innovation-and-data-privacy-are-not-natural-enemies-insights-from-koreas-experience/
@…

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

“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.

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.

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…

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

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.

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

Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Sensitive Mexican Data (gift link)

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.

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 …

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.

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 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.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

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.

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.

We're at the week's half-way mark and the infosec news machine is operating on overdrive.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Ex-Trenchant exec gets 7 years for selling hacking tools to Russian zero-day broker,
--Rubio orders diplomats to fight against data sovereignty,
--UNC2814 breached 53 organizations,
--Anthropic PBC’s chatbot carried out attacks against Mexican government,
--DHS…

Ex-Trenchant exec gets 7+ years for selling hacking tools to Russian zero-day broker
Rubio orders diplomats to fight against data sovereignty, UNC2814 breached 53 organizations, Anthropic PBC’s chatbot attacked the Mexican government, DHS sued for scanning protestors' faces, Wynn Resorts almost certainly paid ransom, Discord postpones age verification policy, much more

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.

Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026 (Bloomberg)

Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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.

Source: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers (Emma Colton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trump-brings-…

Scoop: Trump brings Big Tech to White House to curb power costs amid AI boom
President Donald Trump announces major tech companies must provide their own power for new AI data centers during White House meeting in March with Secretary Chris Wright.

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.

"At least 25 million people were affected by the breach — and that's just in two states. A reported 15 million people were affected in Texas. That's roughly half the state's population. In Oregon, meanwhile, its Department of Justice reported more than 10 million people were affected."
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Conduent data breach already one of largest in U.S. history and keeps getting worse
It's a bad breach.

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

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.

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.

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.

Sam Altman says currently "the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous" and that it is "not something that's going to matter at scale this decade" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman

Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous'
While in New Delhi on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "there will come a time" for orbital data centers, but it won't be anytime soon.

Alphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to dramatically expand AI data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/alpha…

Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI.

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.

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)

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/nvidia-…

The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA (Tom Singleton/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx0xggepjo

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks
The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/inside-sandisks-tr…

Inside Sandisk’s transformation from thumb drive dinosaur to the hottest trade in AI
Soaring chip prices have fueled a nearly 1,000% run for Sandisk in a matter of months. Industry insiders, prolific hedge fund managers, and even the company itself seem to have been caught off guard. Analysts think the stock still has room to run.

SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers; sources: the WH expects to formalize the effort in March (Richard Valdmanis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/tr

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…

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

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.

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

AI Startup Merges With A Billionaire-Backed Data Center Operator In $2.5 Billion Deal
The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack AI cloud” to serve corporates and startups like Cursor.