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Rumble übernimmt deutschen Cloudbetreiber Northern Data
Truth-Social-Host Rumble steigt ins Cloudgeschäft ein und übernimmt die deutsche Cloudfirma Northern Data. Deren Aktionäre erhalten weniger als angekündigt.
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"EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come", #maxschrems…

EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come
As instability in the US legal system becomes undeniable and the US shows open signs of hostility towards the EU, it is time to reconsider where our data is flowing

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/xai-musk-data-center-missis…

Elon Musk's xAI to third data center in Memphis area
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday that this is the largest private investment in the state's history. The center, called MACROHARDRR, will be near Memphis, Tennessee, and is xAI's third in the area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong says it will house the world's largest supercomputer. The project faces scrutiny over environmental concerns, especially regarding air pollution near predominantly Black co…

https://fortune.com/2025/12/10/coupang-ceo-resigns-south-korea-data-breach/
Wow
Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach
Nearly two-thirds of people in the country were affected by the breach, which granted unauthorized access to their shipping addresses and phone numbers.

Beyond Real Data: Synthetic Data through the Lens of Regularization
Amitis Shidani, Tyler Farghly, Yang Sun, Habib Ganjgahi, George Deligiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08095

Beyond Real Data: Synthetic Data through the Lens of Regularization
Synthetic data can improve generalization when real data is scarce, but excessive reliance may introduce distributional mismatches that degrade performance. In this paper, we present a learning-theoretic framework to quantify the trade-off between synthetic and real data. Our approach leverages algorithmic stability to derive generalization error bounds, characterizing the optimal synthetic-to-real data ratio that minimizes expected test error as a function of the Wasserstein distance between t…

What the data says about Ukraine’s mobilization crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/what-the-data-says-about.html

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operator-fabricated-seismic-risk-data/

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.

can’t wait for ai bros to argue that csam laws are holding agi back https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

Synthetic Series-Symbol Data Generation for Time Series Foundation Models
Wenxuan Wang, Kai Wu, Yujian Betterest Li, Dan Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08445 http…

Synthetic Series-Symbol Data Generation for Time Series Foundation Models
Foundation models for time series analysis (TSA) have attracted significant attention. However, challenges such as training data scarcity and imbalance continue to hinder their development. Inspired by complex dynamic system theories, we design a series-symbol data generation mechanism, enabling the unrestricted creation of high-quality time series data paired with corresponding symbolic expressions. To leverage series-symbol data pairs with strong correlations, we develop \texttt{SymTime}, a p…

Seoul cyber investigators seize data, devices from ‘South Korea’s Amazon’ following data breach https://therecord.media/seoul-cyber-investigators-seize-data-korea-tech-giant

#DataRetention

Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.

Wow. I didn't know the history of R, actually, it's co-creator, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland, of Māori descent.

A true global public good used by millions.
'...he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.'

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero - History of Data Science
Many inventors seek fame and fortune, or at least recognition. This isn’t the case for New Zealand statistician and associate professor George Ross Ihaka. Despite being the co-creator of R, an open-source programming language used by millions and loved by the likes of Google and the Bank of America, he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.

»Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts:
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information that is now circulating on the dark web«
Which of you is surprised or even shocked - as you are not now? Unfortunately, many still naively believe that they have nothing to hide.
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Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information.

Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling
Jannek Ulm, Kevin Du, V\'esteinn Sn{\ae}bjarnarson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08245 http…

Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge amounts of textual data, and concerns have been raised that the limits of such data may soon be reached. A potential solution is to train on synthetic data sampled from LLMs. In this work, we build on this idea and investigate the benefits of contrastive decoding for generating synthetic corpora. In a controlled setting, we experiment with sampling corpora using the relative difference between a good and bad model trained on the same original cor…

'Are you a data professional, researcher or practitioner (user) working with data within or across communities and sectors? This survey is for you!' https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9S7AtciBfXf9K9o
Via Melissa Terras on a DH mailing list, so GLAMs…

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.

Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from "dozens" of organizations since at least July 10 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/dozens-of-o…

‘Dozens’ of organizations had data stolen in Oracle-linked hacks | TechCrunch
The mass-hacks targeting Oracle E-Business customers is the latest hacking campaign by Clop, an extortion group known for abusing security flaws in enterprise products to steal large amounts of sensitive data.

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Matthew Reisman as Vice President of U.S. Policy
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-matthew-reisman-as-vice-president-of-u-s-policy/

New Jersey lawmakers OK plan to charge data centers for spiking electric costs - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2026/01/nj-lawmakers-ok-plan-charge-data-centers-spiking-electric-costs/410580/

DRACO: Data Replication and Collection Framework for Enhanced Data Availability and Robustness in IoT Networks
Waleed Bin Qaim, Oznur Ozkasap, Rabia Qadar, Moncef Gabbouj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07464

DRACO: Data Replication and Collection Framework for Enhanced Data Availability and Robustness in IoT Networks
The Internet of Things (IoT) bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, enabling seamless interaction with real-world objects via the Internet. However, IoT systems face significant challenges in ensuring efficient data generation, collection, and management, particularly due to the resource-constrained and unreliable nature of connected devices, which can lead to data loss. This paper presents DRACO (Data Replication and Collection), a framework that integrates a distributed hop-…

"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5597010/openai-atlas-browser-chatgpt-data-privacy

oh nice, redpocket brought back my favorite sim plan (for my kids), and they upgraded it!
For $30/yr, you get unlimited text/talk, and 200MB per month. For those of you with low data needs (or who specifically want to limit their kids data usage): https://www.ebay.com/itm/136840233242

$2.50/Mo RedPocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: UNLIMITED Talk /Text + 200MB | eBay
Choose the network that works best for you and your phone! THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. B. Text Services. 200MB 5G Data. E. RedPocket service plans are for individual use only and not for resale.

Trump Posted Unpublished Jobs Data Early in Social Media Post (Reade Pickert/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/trump-posted-unpublished-jobs-data-early-in-social-media-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p43#a260109p43

DL-PIM: Improving Data Locality in Processing-in-Memory Systems
Parker Hao Tian, Zahra Yousefijamarani, Alaa Alameldeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07719 https://

DL-PIM: Improving Data Locality in Processing-in-Memory Systems
PIM architectures aim to reduce data transfer costs between processors and memory by integrating processing units within memory layers. Prior PIM architectures have shown potential to improve energy efficiency and performance. However, such advantages rely on data proximity to the processing units performing computations. Data movement overheads can degrade PIM's performance and energy efficiency due to the need to move data between a processing unit and a distant memory location. %they face ch…

のびてるね、投票数
QT: https://fedibird.com/@tukine/115859321870564945

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
Daniel Pressens\'e, Elisavet Kozyri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08225 https://…

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
This paper presents TracE2E, a middleware written in Rust, that can provide both data explainability and compliance across multiple nodes. By mediating inputs and outputs of processes, TracE2E records provenance information and enforces data-protection policies (e.g., confidentiality, integrity) that depend on the recorded provenance. Unlike existing approaches that necessitate substantial application modifications, TracE2E is designed for easy integration into existing and future applications …

BLAZER: Bootstrapping LLM-based Manipulation Agents with Zero-Shot Data Generation
Rocktim Jyoti Das, Harsh Singh, Diana Turmakhan, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Mingfei Han, Preslav Nakov, Fabio Pizzati, Ivan Laptev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08572

BLAZER: Bootstrapping LLM-based Manipulation Agents with Zero-Shot Data Generation
Scaling data and models has played a pivotal role in the remarkable progress of computer vision and language. Inspired by these domains, recent efforts in robotics have similarly focused on scaling both data and model size to develop more generalizable and robust policies. However, unlike vision and language, robotics lacks access to internet-scale demonstrations across diverse robotic tasks and environments. As a result, the scale of existing datasets typically suffers from the need for manual…

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

TCDRM: A Tenant Budget-Aware Data Replication Framework for Multi-Cloud Computing
Santatra Hagamalala Bernardin (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Riad Mokadem (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Franck Morvan (IRIT-PYRAMIDE, IRIT), Hasinarivo Ramanana, Hasimandimby Rakotoarivelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07833

TCDRM: A Tenant Budget-Aware Data Replication Framework for Multi-Cloud Computing
Multi-cloud computing systems face significant challenges in ensuring acceptable performance while adhering to tenant budget requirements. This paper proposes a tenant budget-aware (tenant-centric) data replication framework for Multi-Cloud Computing (TCDRM). The proposed strategy dynamically creates data replicas based on predefined thresholds for response time, economic budget of the tenant and data popularity. TCDRM employs a heuristic replica placement algorithm that leverages the diverse p…

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20251209/police-raid-coupang-over-massive-data-breach
This is what happens when you do bad cybersecurity.
Police reportedly seek to check for possible lapses in Coupang'…

Police raid Coupang over massive data breach
Police raided the headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. on Tuesday over a massive breach of personal information that affected some 34 mill...

Advanced PHPUnit Data Provider shenanigans. #PHP
Part 1: https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/fun-with-phpunit-data-providers
Part 2:

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research #dataset - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research #dataset

Hyperspectral data augmentation with transformer-based diffusion models
Mattia Ferrari, Lorenzo Bruzzone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08363 https://arxiv.org…

Hyperspectral data augmentation with transformer-based diffusion models
The introduction of new generation hyperspectral satellite sensors, combined with advancements in deep learning methodologies, has significantly enhanced the ability to discriminate detailed land-cover classes at medium-large scales. However, a significant challenge in deep learning methods is the risk of overfitting when training networks with small labeled datasets. In this work, we propose a data augmentation technique that leverages a guided diffusion model. To effectively train the model w…

Woo hoo! You all get to start adding stuff to Cosmik Network’s Semble: a social bookmarking tool built on ATProto, so all your data is stored in your own account https://semble.so
I’ve been using it for weeks, have it as a PWA on my phone, and it’s been great to just get the basics of saving links somewhere.

You have noticed NFL TV ratings are soaring. Now understand why that is happening https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6699995/2025/10/10/nfl-tv-ratings-nielsen-big-data/

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey - Data Release 1: #MWISP survey was conducted using the PMO 13.7 m telescope at a spatial resolution of approximately 50" and a velocity resolution of 0.16 km/s at 115 GHz. DR1 fully covered 2310 square degrees within the Galactic longitude (l) and latitude (b) range of 9.75 deg =< l=< 229.75 deg and |b| =< 5.25 deg."

Sistrix: among the 10 UK news sites with the highest search visibility scores, six saw double-digit percentage drops in Google search visibility since January (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audie

Most leading UK news websites fell down Google rankings in 2025
Around six in ten of the UK’s biggest news websites have seen a drop in their visibility in Google search results in 2025 so far.

Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 with Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL)
T. Zhang, E. Charles, J. F. Crenshaw, S. J. Schmidt, P. Adari, J. Gschwend, S. Mau, B. Andrews, E. Aubourg, Y. Bains, K. Bechtol, A. Boucaud, D. Boutigny, P. Burchat, J. Chevalier, J. Chiang, H. -F. Chiang, D. Clowe, J. Cohen-Tanugi, C. Combet, A. Connolly, S. Dagoret-Campagne, P. N. Daly, F. Daruich, G. Daubard, J. De Vicente, H. Drass, K. Fanning, E. Gawiser, M. …

Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 with Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL)
We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Commissioning Camera. Employing the Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL) framework, we apply eight photo-z algorithms to the DP1 photometry, using deep ugrizy coverage in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) field and griz data in the Rubin_SV_38_7 field. In the ECDFS field, we constr…

Irgend jemand scheint unter "Digitale Souveränität" etwas ganz anderes zu verstehen als der Rest der Welt.
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty

A data fusion approach for mobility hub impact assessment and location selection: integrating hub usage data into a large-scale mode choice model
Xiyuan Ren, Joseph Y. J. Chow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08366

A data fusion approach for mobility hub impact assessment and location selection: integrating hub usage data into a large-scale mode choice model
As cities grapple with traffic congestion and service inequities, mobility hubs offer a scalable solution to align increasing travel demand with sustainability goals. However, evaluating their impacts remains challenging due to the lack of behavioral models that integrate large-scale travel patterns with real-world hub usage. This study presents a novel data fusion approach that incorporates observed mobility hub usage into a mode choice model estimated with synthetic trip data. We identify tri…

som vanligt toppennyhetsbrev av @… https://dekaminski.se/?mailpoe…

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
— by @…
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A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

Una lectura mšs que obligatoria para entender lo que conlleva “la nube”
https://www.cloudwards.net/deep-dives/the-data-center-water-wars/
@…

Yeah lmao just tested and I don’t even need to reboot the console, just restart the game
Weight data and played days don’t seem to be moved tho, just the rankings
(I do have an even older nnid account that I don’t use anymore, tho that has a different name (just “oldaccound” now) and it didn’t steal any saves)
(I don’t really remember if when moving to Pretendo I moved the mii and created a new similar one for the old account or if it was the other way around and I just created a similar mii to the new one)
(Back then I did try moving the save data between the accounts with a SaveMii, but it didn’t work for Wii Fit U (or for mk8, tho haven’t had issues with that one))
#WiiU

Prompts Generalize with Low Data: Non-vacuous Generalization Bounds for Optimizing Prompts with More Informative Priors
David Madras (Richard), Joshua Safyan (Richard), Qiuyi (Richard), Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08413

Prompts Generalize with Low Data: Non-vacuous Generalization Bounds for Optimizing Prompts with More Informative Priors
Many prompt engineering techniques have been successful in practice, even when optimizing over a large prompt space with with a small amount of task-specific data. Recent work has partially explained this success by showing generalization bounds which apply PAC-Bayes theory to the discrete prompt space, but they are non-vacuous only in data-rich scenarios. We argue that such widespread success can be more fully explained through more carefully considering data- or distribution-dependent perplex…

I rewrote a data analysis pipeline, moving it from #python to #julialang . I am now in love with the threading support in Julia.
The task is very parallelizable but each thread needs random read access to a tens-of-GB dataset. In Python (with multiprocessing, shared stores, etc) data bookkeeping was a nightmar…

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/profound-impacts-record-ocean-heat-intensifying-climate-disa…

The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision finding that Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-child…

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.11.06-203144/https://www.afr.com/technology/google-plans-a-powerful-ai-data-centre-on-tiny-australian-outpost-20251107-p5n8fk

EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-global-standard-on-privacy-and-ai-now-its-pulling-back

EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press
The draft Digital Omnibus could weaken core data protections and give tech companies more leeway in using European data, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

Curriculum Learning with Synthetic Data for Enhanced Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest Radiographs
Pranav Sambhu, Om Guin, Madhav Sambhu, Jinho Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07681

Curriculum Learning with Synthetic Data for Enhanced Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest Radiographs
This study evaluates whether integrating curriculum learning with diffusion-based synthetic augmentation can enhance the detection of difficult pulmonary nodules in chest radiographs, particularly those with low size, brightness, and contrast, which often challenge conventional AI models due to data imbalance and limited annotation. A Faster R-CNN with a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) backbone was trained on a hybrid dataset comprising expert-labeled NODE21 (1,213 patients; 52.4 percent male; me…

The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues.
There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source.
You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money.
So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything.
There is no home server. Just the code.
To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone.
It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb.
This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior.
Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere.
There's a blog on the website saying this and more: https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-06-release/

Who Stole Your Data? A Method for Detecting Unauthorized RAG Theft
Peiyang Liu, Ziqiang Cui, Di Liang, Wei Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07728 https://arxi…

Who Stole Your Data? A Method for Detecting Unauthorized RAG Theft
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by mitigating hallucinations and outdated information issues, yet simultaneously facilitates unauthorized data appropriation at scale. This paper addresses this challenge through two key contributions. First, we introduce RPD, a novel dataset specifically designed for RAG plagiarism detection that encompasses diverse professional domains and writing styles, overcoming limitations in existing resources. Second, we develop…

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Incomplete Tensor Linear Systems
Anna Ma, Deanna Needell, Alexander Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07630 https://arxiv.org/…

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Incomplete Tensor Linear Systems
Solving large tensor linear systems poses significant challenges due to the high volume of data stored, and it only becomes more challenging when some of the data is missing. Recently, Ma et al. showed that this problem can be tackled using a stochastic gradient descent-based method, assuming that the missing data follows a uniform missing pattern. We adapt the technique by modifying the update direction, showing that the method is applicable under other missing data models. We prove convergenc…

High-dimensional Analysis of Synthetic Data Selection
Parham Rezaei, Filip Kovacevic, Francesco Locatello, Marco Mondelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08123 https://

High-dimensional Analysis of Synthetic Data Selection
Despite the progress in the development of generative models, their usefulness in creating synthetic data that improve prediction performance of classifiers has been put into question. Besides heuristic principles such as "synthetic data should be close to the real data distribution", it is actually not clear which specific properties affect the generalization error. Our paper addresses this question through the lens of high-dimensional regression. Theoretically, we show that, for linear models…

Teen who allegedly stole millions of personal data records arrested in Spain https://therecord.media/spain-arrests-teen-suspect-data-theft-and-sale

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565146/white-house-claims-more-than-1-000-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents-data-says-otherwise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p96#a251010p96

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…

Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE

92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.

The NHS Barts Health Hospital wants to legally ban the publication, use, or sharing of data stolen by the Clop gang by anyone.
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/uk-hospital-asks-court-to-stymie-ransomware-data-leak-a-30222

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

MobilityDuck: Mobility Data Management with DuckDB
Nhu Ngoc Hoang, Ngoc Hoa Pham, Viet Phuong Hoang, Esteban Zim\'anyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07963 https://

MobilityDuck: Mobility Data Management with DuckDB
The analytics of spatiotemporal data is increasingly important for mobility analytics. Despite extensive research on moving object databases (MODs), few systems are ready on production or lightweight enough for analytics. MobilityDB is a notable system that extends PostgreSQL with spatiotemporal data, but it inherits complexity of the architecture as well. In this paper, we present MobilityDuck, a DuckDB extension that integrates the MEOS library to provide support spatiotemporal and other temp…

Robust Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation based on Curriculum Learning
Ziqi Zhang, Yuexiang Li, Yawen Huang, Nanjun He, Tao Xu, Liwei Lin, Yefeng Zheng, Shaoxin Li, Feiyue Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08393

Robust Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation based on Curriculum Learning
Recent studies have uncovered a new research line, namely source-free domain adaptation, which adapts a model to target domains without using the source data. Such a setting can address the concerns on data privacy and security issues of medical images. However, current source-free domain adaptation frameworks mainly focus on the pseudo label refinement for target data without the consideration of learning procedure. Indeed, a progressive learning process from source to target domain will benef…

FastUMI-100K: Advancing Data-driven Robotic Manipulation with a Large-scale UMI-style Dataset
Kehui Liu, Zhongjie Jia, Yang Li, Zhaxizhuoma, Pengan Chen, Song Liu, Xin Liu, Pingrui Zhang, Haoming Song, Xinyi Ye, Nieqing Cao, Zhigang Wang, Jia Zeng, Dong Wang, Yan Ding, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08022

FastUMI-100K: Advancing Data-driven Robotic Manipulation with a Large-scale UMI-style Dataset
Data-driven robotic manipulation learning depends on large-scale, high-quality expert demonstration datasets. However, existing datasets, which primarily rely on human teleoperated robot collection, are limited in terms of scalability, trajectory smoothness, and applicability across different robotic embodiments in real-world environments. In this paper, we present FastUMI-100K, a large-scale UMI-style multimodal demonstration dataset, designed to overcome these limitations and meet the growing…

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

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

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece

Open Infrastructure Map
Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. This data isn't exposed on the default OSM map, so there built Open Infrastructure Map to visualise it.
🌎 https://openinframap.org
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Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria

Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.

Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models
Sharut Gupta, Shobhita Sundaram, Chenyu Wang, Stefanie Jegelka, Phillip Isola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models
Traditional multimodal learners find unified representations for tasks like visual question answering, but rely heavily on paired datasets. However, an overlooked yet potentially powerful question is: can one leverage auxiliary unpaired multimodal data to directly enhance representation learning in a target modality? We introduce UML: Unpaired Multimodal Learner, a modality-agnostic training paradigm in which a single model alternately processes inputs from different modalities while sharing pa…

A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…

Samsung Defeats Texas’ Bid to Halt TV Tech Following Court Error
Samsung Electronics America can continue to use technology that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says allows it to unlawfully collect data on TV watchers, a judge ruled Friday.

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Xiuwei Xu, Angyuan Ma, Hankun Li, Bingyao Yu, Zheng Zhu, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08547

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To achieve this, substantial human demonstrations need to be collected to cover different spatial configurations for training a generalized visuomotor policy via imitation learning. Prior works explore a promising direction that leverages data generation to acquire a…

Not only was Coupang's CEO forced to step down today but police raided the company's headquarters for a second time too.
Police raid Coupang headquarters for 2nd day over massive data breach
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251210004400315

Kristi Noem and DHS do not deserve the benefit of the doubt (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/kristi-noem-dhs-ice-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p130#a260109p130

On Website Technicals (2026-01) - Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction... - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html

On Website Technicals (2026-01)
Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction...

Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (Pia Singh/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-tr…

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.

Data privacy whistleblowers would get expanded protections under California proposal https://therecord.media/california-data-privacy-agency-whistleblower-protections-proposal

Dual-granularity Sinkhorn Distillation for Enhanced Learning from Long-tailed Noisy Data
Feng Hong, Yu Huang, Zihua Zhao, Zhihan Zhou, Jiangchao Yao, Dongsheng Li, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08179

Dual-granularity Sinkhorn Distillation for Enhanced Learning from Long-tailed Noisy Data
Real-world datasets for deep learning frequently suffer from the co-occurring challenges of class imbalance and label noise, hindering model performance. While methods exist for each issue, effectively combining them is non-trivial, as distinguishing genuine tail samples from noisy data proves difficult, often leading to conflicting optimization strategies. This paper presents a novel perspective: instead of primarily developing new complex techniques from scratch, we explore synergistically le…

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator,
--Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data,
--NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data,
--UK government launches $282m cyber action plan,
--Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura,
--Command injection flaw fou…

Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator
Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data, NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data, UK government launches $282m cyber action plan, Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura, Command injection flaw found in D-Link DSL routers, much more

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

It's a pretty big day in cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues,
--Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions,
--FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder,
--Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules,
--FBI warns of fake proof of life photos,
--Oz…

Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues
Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions, FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder, Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules, FBI warns of fake proof of life photos, Oz teen social media limits go live tomorrow, much more

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sandworm-hackers-use-data-wipers-to-disrupt-ukraines-grain-sector/
Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector

Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector
Russian state-backed hacker group Sandworm has deployed multiple data-wiping malware families in attacks targeting Ukraine's education, government, and the grain sector, the country's main revenue source.

The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/

EU says easier iPhone-Android switching is proof the DMA is working - 9to5Mac
The EU says Apple and Google’s new iPhone-Android switching tools show the DMA is working, delivering easier, faster data transfers for users.

China bans TechInsights from working with or receiving data from Chinese entities, citing national security concerns, after a report on Huawei's Ascend AI chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/china-blac

China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei
Beijing has banned semiconductor researcher TechInsights from working with or receiving data from entities in China.

Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-ra

Rumble agrees to acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…

South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M people's personal information (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…

Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe | TechCrunch
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.

Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-s…

Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience.

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.