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https://www.scworld.com/news/half-of-organizations-struggle-to-locate-backup-data-report-finds
Half of organizations struggle to locate backup data, report finds

Half of organizations struggle to locate backup data, report finds
Outdated cloud backup management strategies pose data loss and ransomware risks.

A look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (You Xiaoying/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chi…

China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers
China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

"Caring for Data’s Soul: The development of a Curation Impact Factor to pinpoint the effects of data curation activities on data quality" https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.1030

d-DQIVAR: Data-centric Visual Analytics and Reasoning for Data Quality Improvement
Hyein Hong, Sangbong Yoo, SeokHwan Choi, Jisue Kim, Seongbum Seo, Haneol Cho, Chansoo Kim, Yun Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11960

d-DQIVAR: Data-centric Visual Analytics and Reasoning for Data Quality Improvement
Approaches to enhancing data quality (DQ) are classified into two main categories: data- and process-driven. However, prior research has predominantly utilized batch data preprocessing within the data-driven framework, which often proves insufficient for optimizing machine learning (ML) model performance and frequently leads to distortions in data characteristics. Existing studies have primarily focused on data preprocessing rather than genuine data quality improvement (DQI). In this paper, we …

‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-elliott-morris-says-up-to-6-million-people-attended-no-kings-anti-donald-trump-protests/

‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst
For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.

RIP Connie Francis.
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/connie-francis-dead-pretty-little-baby-stupid-cupid-singer-1236463533/

Connie Francis Dead: 'Pretty Little Baby,' 'Stupid Cupid' Singer Was 87
Connie Francis, the top-charting pop singer of '50s and '60s classics like "Stupid Cupid" and "Pretty Little Baby," has died. She was 87.

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'
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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/startup-down-rounds-are-at…

Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data
PitchBook data revealed that 15.9% of venture-backed deals in 2025 to date have been down rounds, marking a decade high.