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Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-center-deals-…

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

At the #GlobalGatewayForum in Brussels this month, key milestones were marked for the EU-Africa-India Digital Corridor, a trusted, secure, high-capacity data link between continents, centred around the #BlueRaman cable system.
The event saw collaboration formalised between the European …

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.
Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot #dataviz

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/
He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.

He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.
Charles Borges says Musk’s cost-cutting team uploaded a copy of a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans.

The #Pathfinder2E character data structure is in progress, figured a good ol'-fashioned JSON schema would be the way to go. Still, progress continues.
#python #characterSheet

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

I wrote a post about how I get the GPX data from my Apple Watch/iPhone to my computer so I can do whatever I want with it...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/10/20/gpx-files-from-an-iphone-apple-watch/

GPX Files from an iPhone/Apple Watch
Get the data that shows how you got there...

»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
🔐

How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more anonymously.

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

🚀Unser Team der Cultural Research Data Academy hat sich zu einem Strategietreffen in Eltville getroffen und viele Inspirationen, Ideen, und Impressionen für die nächste Projektphase gesammelt.
➡️Hier könnt ihr mehr über die Events, Kurse und Aktivitäten der CRDA erfahren: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E1826

Geniaal gedaan dit.
Alle vrijgegeven emails van #Epstein at your fingertips.
https://jmail.world/

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

#TIL
#Python :python: #Flask web development detail:
If you change data in a nested structure in your `session` object you might need to set
`session.modified = True`.
(I took me q…

Asking the audience where they are on their data journey, on a scale from Junk Shop -> Amazon
#cdl25 #ConnectedData

Thirsty data centers would have to report water use under Utah bill  | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thirsty-data-centers-would-have-report-water-use-under-utah-bill 

USB's 5mbit/s data signal causes 2.4Ghz radio interference.
If you have a USB dongle for #Bluetooth or Wireless mouse that has awful range or intermittently lags, connect it via a short USB extension cable.
https://www.

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/goog

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is planning another extortion campaign.

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/

Ich will mich ja nicht beschweren, #AirportZurich, aber grad wirklich Weltklasse ist weder das Abfluggate, noch der Transport zum Flieger. Dem Gerät selbst merkt man das Alter auch gut an. 🤨
#CANEast25
Für die Spotter:

LX86 (SWR86) Swiss Flight Tracking and History 21-Oct-2025 (ZRH / LSZH-CYUL) - FlightAware
Flight status, tracking, and historical data for Swiss 86 (LX86/SWR86) 21-Oct-2025 (ZRH / LSZH-CYUL) including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 22.09.1983 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Phalanx die 18. Atombombe "Techado". Phalanx war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1982/83 insgesamt 19 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

I don't disagree with suggestions that the UK public sector should have less reliance on the big-three (American) cloud providers. But this has been a concern for more than a decade, and people should at least be aware of both the "GOV.UK PaaS" and UKCloud.

Migrating our data from GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) – MHCLG Digital
After learning that GOV.UK’s hosting platform PaaS is being decommissioned, the Energy Performance of Buildings Register team decided to migrate all their hosting to AWS. In this post, Barry, Developer, explains what they did.

Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3eb36aed-8366-4db9-8ea0-e7484416dc43

I feel bad sharing it.. but youtube, which has thousands of hours of data from me, has put on my homepage a video resume with 4 views of a very nice person who is graduating from Daffodil International University .
While this is an insane choice I did click on it so who's the real fool in this story?

Data And Drams
A series for tech folk distilling their best careers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

"The poverty threshold in the Bay Area is $28,081 annual income for one adult and $52,715 for a family of four, according to Tipping Point Community. The near poverty benchmark is $42,122 for one adult and $79,073 for a family of four."
As reference, San Francisco's minimum wage is $18.57, or $37,140/year (50x40hr weeks) At present the average rent for a studio is about $2300, low rent about maybe $1500 (Zumper website data). At the low rent studio, the rent burden is …

13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released #UnitedStates

13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released
New research from Northern Arizona University shows detailed CO2 emissions for the United States from 2010 to 2022.

This is a truly fascinating use of LLMs. I hope we get to see this soon.
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
A family of 4 billion (B) parameter LLMs based on the Qwen3 architecture trained on 80B tokens of historical data up to knowledge-cutoffs : 1913, 1929, 1933, 1939…

GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs.
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms

Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…

Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy case
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve...

Well you don't get to have it both ways, employers.
https://www.expresspros.com/newsroom/news-releases/news-releases/2025/11/ai-is-reshaping-collaboration-but-55-percent-of-…

AI Is Reshaping Collaboration, but 55% of US Employers Worry It’s Replacing Teamwork
AI is rapidly changing how employees work together, and new data shows that most companies see it as positive, at least for now.

He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwOTMyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYyMzE4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjA5MzI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImE3ZmRkN2FlLTU1YTgtNGJjYy04Mzg4LTQ2NDgyNzQ3YjMwOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzEwLzIwL3NvY2lhbC1zZWN1cml0eS1kYXRhLWRvZ2Utd2hpc3RsZWJsb3dlci8ifQ.XprKpFoVak9uzNkV200z4n8-OY6dFob4bsffDSl4Faw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p48#a251020p48

"Further, outdated rules on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies are still governing the protection of the user’s terminal equipment and the access and collection to information from user’s terminal equipment. This requires pragmatic and immediate clarifications to limit consent fatigue, provide legal clarity on rightful access and processing, and enhanced data availability to businesses."
My fatigue stems more from politics leaving their citizens alone...

Vamos a utilizar una tecnología que comete errores de forma irreparable por culpa del propio diseño en sí de la tecnología.
Ya me imagino a la gente montando en un avión que puede que llegue al destino o que se precipite contra una montaña, no se sabe. https:/…

A curse on all those who generate JSON data with subfielded keys.
...I'm looking at you Dell PERC, with all your "Drive /c0/e32/s9 - Detailed Information" nonsense. - I KNOW what the device attachment is (I GAVE you that on the command line), what I want is CONSISTENT key names I can use JQ to filter on (This key should be "Drive Detailed Information" - or something even LESS of a mouthful).

Okay, I _think_ I've got everything in here...now time to write up an example and see if it looks good.
#pathfinder2E #jsonSchema

Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI's forthcoming US data centers (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-invest-…

SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers
SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The Japanese conglomerate, one of the largest investors in OpenAI, will use ...

Nunca te acostaršs sin aprender algo nuevo: no conocía el comando :X de vim, para cifrar el fichero. Puede usar blowfish:
$> file x.txt
x.txt: Vim encrypted file data with blowfish cryptmethod
Ponte en ~/.vimrc
set cm=blowfish
Se deriva la clave usando SHA-256 con salt.

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,…

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

»PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of stored data. Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode«
The AES-GCM 256 encryption is a component of any popular web browser, so this tool is also easy to use safely.
🔏 https://privatebin.info

TikTok quietly changed its policies to make it easier to share user data with government and regulatory authorities, and weakened promises to inform users (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/10/21…

TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 22. November 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Tinderbox". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

The initial example is based of my current character and it's looking decent. I'm not happy with the skill section, but this should get the job done. Still have to figure out how I want the damage to look on weapons. I also need to get spells into the schema, but I'll leave that alone for the time being.
#pathfinder2e

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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

Popular hair-loss pill linked to depression and suicide #health

Popular hair-loss pill linked to depression and suicide
Finasteride, a common hair-loss drug, has long been tied to depression and suicide, but regulators ignored the warnings. Prof. Mayer Brezis’s review exposes global data showing psychiatric harm and a pattern of inaction by Merck and the FDA. Despite its cosmetic use, the drug’s effects on brain chemistry can be devastating. Brezis calls for urgent regulatory reforms and post-marketing studies to protect public health.

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Met vandaag een verdere daling, tot onder de 500, die echter in de laatst gemeten dagen wel weer afvlakt.
Bovendien zitten er maar 4 nieuwe dagen in de data: 10 t/m 13 november, met 90%-20% van de meetstations.
De laatste meetwaarde is zelfs bijna 600 (maar dus slechts op 20% van de data gebaseerd).
Ik vind het in elk geval nog wat vroeg om te concluderen dat deze golf zijn hoogste piek al gehad heeft. Volgende …

CleanSpark shares jump 12% after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

CleanSpark Shares Surge After Bitcoin Miner Joins Pivot to AI
Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure and the hiring of Jeffrey Thomas from Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 21. November 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Planer". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

{lubridate} makes working with dates in R just that little bit easier: #rstats #dates<…

Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier
Functions to work with date-times and time-spans: fast and user friendly parsing of date-time data, extraction and updating of components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), algebraic manipulation on date-time and time-span objects. The lubridate package has a consistent and memorable syntax that makes working with dates easy and fun.

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

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 …

Report reveals 25% surge in global water use over two decades #environment

Report reveals 25% surge in global water use over two decades
The world is rapidly losing its water supply, according to the World Bank's Global Water Monitoring Report. This global report, titled Continental Drying, highlights the water crisis using unprecedentedly detailed data. Researchers from the University of Twente made a key contribution to the section that reveals how much water we use, where it goes, and how we can use it more wisely.

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 21. November 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Piccalilli". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas-fired power plants (Financial Times)

The fallout from the AI-fuelled dash for gas
A supply crunch in giant turbines for gas-powered plants threatens environmental and geopolitical consequences

Another cool and useful package from @…: {emphatic} augments the output of data.frames, matrices and simple vectors in R by adding user-defined ANSI highlighting. https://coolbutusele…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 10 nodes and 40 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/20/exclusive-early-ai-darling-lan…

Exclusive: Early AI darling LangChain is now a unicorn with a fresh $125 million in funding
With new funding led by IVP and a roster of enterprise customers, LangChain wants to power the coming wave of AI agents—and investors are betting it could be the next big infrastructure giant.

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/construction-of-totalenergies-pipeline-cuts-through-coral-reefs-in-mozambique/

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique
Over the past year, a dredger operated by Dutch company Van Oord cut through a coral reef off the coast of northern Mozambique, part of the construction of French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’ troubled liquefied natural gas project in Cabo Delgado. Data scientists analyzing satellite imagery and vessel data have found that a massive […]

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

Oura launches a redesigned app with a new metric to show a weekly overview of stress management and says it is working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802527/oura-ring-stress-blood-pres…

Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking
The company is launching a study that uses ring data to detect ‘early signs of hypertension.’

Numeric, which automates accounting workflows, raised a $51M Series B led by IVP, bringing its total funding to $89M, and says OpenAI and Brex are clients (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/19/numeric-51-million-acc…

Exclusive: Numeric raises $51M to automate accounting
Company connects close, cash and analytics in one data layer.

high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
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Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli<…

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/dataminr-threatconnect-acquisition/

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The […]

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B (Financial Times)

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

OpenAI partners with Foxconn to design and develop data center server racks to be manufactured in the US; Foxconn will produce cabling, power systems, and more (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-forms-joint-ventu…

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 1629 nodes and 3865 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 19438 nodes and 23191 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-b…

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 874843 nodes and 1088296 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…

CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2724 nodes and 14322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted…

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-a…

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

A profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/…

After Four Decades In Silicon Valley, This Engineer Is A New Billionaire Thanks To The AI Boom
Pure Storage’s low-key cofounder John Colgrove joins the three-comma club after signing a flashy deal with Meta amid increasing data storage demand.

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7a778d46-8bf8-4b11-af4e-5e5bd891cb9d

TikTok says Chinese owner will retain core US business
Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to invest in new data security joint venture as part of Trump-brokered deal

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/19/facebook-users-dec…

Meta, California agree to settle Facebook privacy case
Third parties harvested personal data even though the company claimed to offer privacy, a lawsuit says.

Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in