Tootfinder

Ik blijf me erover verbazen dat een volksvertegenwoordiger in de TK zo overduidelijk met deze drogreden kan komen zonder dat iemand interrumpeert en zegt: hee dit is de verzonken kosten drogreden.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verzonken_kosten

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-broker-breaches-fueled-do…

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses
A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Utah's Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) on Friday
approved a development agreement for a "hyperscale data center campus"
in Box Elder County that could eventually consume 9 GW of power
-- more than double the state's current average electricity use of roughly 4 GW
Update • No public comment allowed on hyperscale data center project
as Box Elder County Commission decides whether to approve
(He did)

Not sure how I missed this crazy story...
Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthrop

Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
Anthropic stored information about an upcoming model, draft blog posts, and other private information in an unsecured, publicly-searchable data lake

Interesting article about "turtle tanks"
#military

Turtle Tanks: A Dead End in Modern Warfare
Turtle tanks have become a familiar sight on the Ukrainian battlefield, but are they a dead end in modern warfare?

🤔 ‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study
https://globalnews.ca/news/4924534/little-ice-age-death-55-million-indigenous-people-colonization-study/

‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study
Colonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate, according to a new study.

Analysis of profiles using 2025 Google ad auction data: an average US user generates $1,600 in annual ad value; the top 10% users generate 43% of all ad value (Edward Komenda/The Proton Blog)
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google

What Google thinks you're worth | Proton
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?

Jones Lang LaSalle projects Malaysia's operational data center capacity to increase from ~1,025 MW at the end of 2025 to ~2,100 MW by the end of 2026 (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/malaysia-s-data…

Malaysia's data center capacity set to double by end-2026
Southern state of Johor to lead country's booming sector: JLL estimates

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

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

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts
Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.