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Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate - Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat
In a secure environment, one of the most overlooked threats is the presence of sensitive data in memory, such as passwords, tokens, cryptographic keys, or card numbers. Even when using Rust, where we emphasize ownership and thread safety, there's another crucial question to consider: What remains in the heap or stack after we no longer need it?
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Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate
Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat In a secure environment, one of the most...

Colt Technology Services has confirmed that data was stolen in a recent cyberattack that disrupted its operations.
The admission comes as the Warlock ransomware gang begins auctioning what it claims are over a million stolen documents on its dark web site.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…

Colt confirms data theft
Colt Technology Services has confirmed that data was stolen in a recent cyberattack that disrupted its operations.

Beim #4CultureCommunityPlenary möchten wir Euch auch Einblicke in die teils reinen Präsenz-Veranstaltungen ermöglichen.
Lest also ab morgen, 24.9., hier oder in unserem LinkedIn-Kanal mit:
https://www.

I like my individualized mail addresses. I just received a phishing mail to update my data with a Swiss payment system (TWINT) - but it was sent to an address I created for a doctor's appointment system (Onedoc).
The message also contains my postal address from the time I created that account.
#databreach

#LinkedIn will ab dem 3. November Eure personenbezogenen Daten und Inhalte verwenden, um generative KI-Modelle von LinkedIn zu schulen.
Hier könnt ihr widersprechen.
https://www.linkedin.com/m…

"Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain #Unicode characters encoded in #UTF8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
This issue keeps coming up, so [

Interesting blog about creating a fully encrypted cloud storage on nextcloud.
https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/encrypted-private-nextcloud-VPS-and-storagebox

Nextcloud with fully encrypted storage
This tutorial shows how to setup your own Nextcloud following the recommended AIO approach, storing data encrypted on disk and using Hetzner's Storage Box.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

"Based on latest data that’s more than 360,000 innocent people murdered"
Israeli military’s own data says at least 83% of its Gaza victims were civilians – SKWAWKBOX
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/08/22/israeli-militarys-own-data-says-at-least-83-of-its-gaza-victims-were-civilians/

xAI workers said they've encountered NSFW content, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material from Grok.
☑️ Musk's AI Tutors Describe 'Disgusting' Content Moderation Job - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Musk's AI tutors describe 'disgusting' content moderation job
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

Today at #nhr25, I presented our talk on “Research Data Management and High-Performance Computing – How NFDI and NHR are Working Together to Build the Digital Research Infrastructure of the Future”. It was a pleasure to get to know the nhr community. I am looking forward to day two … and to many fruitful collaborations in the future.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-oracle-softbank-data-center-stargate-us/

OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
The new sites will boost Stargate’s planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.

⛐ The $340K Cadillac Celestiq Has Sensors in Its Ball Joints
#cars

The $340K Cadillac Celestiq Has Sensors in Its Ball Joints
They replace conventional height sensors and send data to multiple vehicle systems, helping the Celestiq to ride better and even illuminate the road more effectively.

Heute vor 44 Jahren: Am 24. September 1981 testen die #USA die #Atombombe "Cernada". Die Operation #Guardian war eine Serie von 14 US-amerikanischen

New Books Network Podcast Interview mit Kate McDowell zu "Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact" (ALA, 2025): https://newbooksnetwork.com/critical-data-storytelling-for-libraries

#SPARQL -Spielerei: Die Gemälde der Berliner Gemäldegalerie nach Fläche geordnet: https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata/DanBp9 (Ausführungszeit 166ms, im WDQS landet die Anfrage im …

I managed to get my laptop too damn wet Thursday before last (we had a short, torrential downpour and I had not cinched my bag tight enough to keep the water out), I have AppleCare, the laptop came back, but without its data, fortunately I had a backup of everything but recently downloaded biking video. Happily, the interesting video, was still on the camera, and it shows exactly what I had hoped it did. I was riding on my newly assembled (aftermarket)

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

This week's ISE 2025 lecture was focussed on artificial neural networks. In particular, we were discussing how to get rid of manual feature engineering and doing representation learning from raw data with convolutional neural networks.
#AI #ArtificialNeuralNetworks

@… That makes sense if notifications are derivatives of replicated data.

"The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities. That never happened. (...) We also never achieved truly personal computing. Computers could've been personal knowledge bases, with structured semantic connections akin to HyperCard, that take advantage of the semantic web and open standards. (...) AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround."

New preprint: "The Reverse File System: Towards open cost-effective secure WORM storage devices for logging"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17969

»So, ich glaube das reicht. Lassen wir mal die Theorie da, wo sie hingehör t und wenden uns dem wirklichen Leben, sprich dem Computer und seinem Betriebssystem zu.«
Quelle: Schieb/Weiler – Commodore 128: Das CP/M-Buch (Data Becker, 1985)

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
https://fpf.org/blog/the-draghi-dilemma-the-right-and-the-wrong-way-to-undertake-gdpr-reform/
@…

🧩 Works beautifully with immutability (readonly) and plays nice with DTOs or Spatie Data objects if you want extra transformations.
🔥 Clean configs = less debugging, fewer typos, more joy.
👉 Read the full write-up here:
https://cosmastech.com/2025/08/23/crea

Today a server ran out of disc space. Apart from the annoyance, I'm pleased by two things.
• I remembered how to expand a volume, increase the partition size and the file system.
• Nothing broke, apart from not being able to deliver data and throwing 404s.
And everything resumed afterwards.
REST for the win.

Oracle will pay for and oversee the construction of three of the new Stargate data centers, and OpenAI will then purchase computing power from Oracle (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/openai-data-centers-united-state…

OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.

Google has disclosed new figures on the energy consumption of its AI-powered search assistant, Gemini, as debate intensifies over the environmental impact of AI.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/google-publishes-data-on-energy-use-of-…

Google publishes data on energy use of AI search queries
Google has disclosed new figures on the energy consumption of its AI-powered search assistant, Gemini, as debate intensifies over the environmental impact of AI.

One of the things promised for the next phase of Open Banking in the UK was an open API for managing subscription payments from banks (something like Direct Debits, or "commercial variable recurring payments (cVRP)" in their terminology). As in: one day you'd have one-click set-up for subscriptions, and manage them all via banking/finance apps.
As an outsider it's hard to determine the current status, but apparently this might be in beta by the end of the year?
…

Open finance - Open Banking
As open banking evolves into open finance and smart data, we explore the potential benefits, cost savings and economic growth it can deliver.

Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: Study #Brazil

Brazil's Amazon lost area the size of Spain in 40 years: Study
Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.

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 …

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

"Celebrating 50 Years of Single-Channel Recording with the Patch Clamp". Nice review by Catacuzzeno & Franciolini, though some of the history is a bit dodgy, and misunderstands the fitting of models to data.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00232-025-00362…

Celebrating 50 Years of Single-Channel Recording with the Patch Clamp - The Journal of Membrane Biology
Fifty years ago, Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann published a Nature paper on their recording of discrete, step-like currents of a few picoamps passing through individual acetylcholine receptor channels of frog muscle fibers. This observation, the first on native channels, immediately ended the decade-long dispute about the presence of ion channels on cell membranes by convincing even the most reluctant scientists that this was indeed the case. More importantly, however, the ability to record singl…

Trump govt sued for refusing to release 'vital' LGBTQ census data
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/23/lgbtq-census-data-lawsuit/

#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…

Press Engine: 1,200 video game journalists left the industry in the past two years; including amateur, part-time, and freelance writers, 4,000 left since 2023 (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/m

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years
According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-data-center.html

Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center buildout
In an interview with CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company's project with OpenAI is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs.

Heute vor 38 Jahren: Am 23.10.1987 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Touchstone die 1. Atombombe "Borate". Touchstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1987/88 insgesamt 15 Bomben im Testgebiet in

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. 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 snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

A look at London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale, which landed a $500M investment from Nvidia and aims to scale up to 300K GPUs globally, on par with CoreWeave (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns
Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

Trump administration rebuffed by Pennsylvania on voter data
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5466160-pennsylvania-voter-data-privacy-trump-request/

Source: WBD plans to require potential bidders to sign NDAs before it shares sensitive financial data; sources: Amazon and Apple have shown interest (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/warner-br…

Heute vor 38 Jahren: Am 24.09.1987 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Musketeer die Atombombe "Lockney". Musketeer war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1986/87 insgesamt 16 Bomben im Testgebiet in

A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13 (Catharine Tunney/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-privacy-commissioners-1.7640974…

Privacy commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive data from Canadian children | CBC News
TikTok's tools to keep children off its platform were largely ineffective and the immensely popular social media app was collecting sensitive information from underage users, a joint investigation from Canadian privacy authorities found.

»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

US public mapping data being removed from public access.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/1mxl80n/can_someone_help_preserve_this_massive_public/

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 24. September 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Hudson Seal". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

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

Federal websites are going dark as evidence of mass tampering with government data emerges | Fortune
https://archive.ph/8OVfi

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing structuring their new AI data center partnership so that OpenAI would lease Nvidia's AI chips instead of buying them (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadea…

In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing
OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, according to two people who spoke to executives at the companies about it. The discussion shows how ...

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

Heute vor 37 Jahren: Am 23.08.1988 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Touchstone die Atombomben "Harlingen" 1 & 2. Touchstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1987/88 15 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Clock’s ticking for digital lenders as VC funding plunges 50% in 2025
Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. Only around 50 of the 154 fintech deals reported this year involved digital lenders, the data showed.

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 30 nodes and 421 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 23. August 1957 fand der #Atomtest "Doppler" (16/29) im Rahmen der Operation #Plumbbob in Nevada statt. Sie beinhaltete die höchsten Turmtests in den #USA, umfasste Lufta…

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-oracle-announce-…

EDO: the NFL brings in $5.2B annually in national TV ads; in 2024-2025 ads on streaming-exclusive NFL games were 66% more effective for brands than TV ads (Jason Notte/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/nfl-streaming-ads-effective/

Report: The Only Thing Bigger Than NFL TV Ads Are NFL Streaming Ads
New data from EDO finds that ads during football games on Netflix and Amazon last year were more effective than in-game linear.

florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
…

Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertain…

Women power China's $1bn romance gaming market
Fewer taboos for female gamers lead to hits like Love and Deepspace

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1957 fand der #Atomtest "Kepler" (10/29) im Rahmen der Operation #Plumbbob in Nevada statt. Sie beinhaltete die höchsten Turmtests in den #USA, umfasste Luftabwe…

florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families
Multiplex network with 2 edge types representing marriage alliances and business relationships between Florentine families during the Italian Renaissance. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 16 nodes and 35 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
…

Starbridge, which helps businesses monitor public sector opportunities by consolidating fragmented data, raised a $42M Series A led by David Sacks' Craft (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/david…

David Sacks' Craft leads $42 million Series A in govtech startup Starbridge | TechCrunch
Starbridge raises $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures to help businesses better monitor public service opportunities.

Heute vor 39 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1986 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Charioteer die 13. Atombombe "Cornucopia". Charioteer war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1985/86 insgesamt 16 Bomben im Testgebiet in

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 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Micron reports Q4 revenue up 46% YoY to $11.32B, vs. $11.22B est., net income up 261% to $3.2B, data center revenue down 22%, and Q1 revenue forecast above est. (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/micron-mu-q4-2025-earnings-report.html

Micron beats on earnings as company sales rise 46% on AI boom
Micron reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Tuesday as well as a robust forecast for the current quarter.

A look at CoreWeave, whose financing strategy involves using GPUs as collateral for large loans, which enabled rapid expansion but resulted in $11.2B in debt (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires
Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on billions in debt to supply advanced chips to major AI players puts him in a powerful position.

Apple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/appl

Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer from the App Store | TechCrunch
Apple has pulled the controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store over violations of its content moderation and privacy rules, following a flood of user complaints and reports of minors’ data being exposed

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 2277 nodes and 2429 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

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

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/trump-a…

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 4275 nodes and 8487 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Sources: Visa shut down its open-banking business in the US amid regulatory uncertainty; the unit provided tools to help fintechs access customer-account data (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

Data center startup Crusoe raised $1.4B led by Mubadala and Valor, more than tripling its valuation to $10B in one year and taking its total funding to $3.9B (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/26b20375-8f2d-425d-aefc-75ddbfa64716

Bakkt shares jump 40% after naming Mike Alfred, the crypto veteran who co-founded Digital Assets Data, to its board (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/371733/bakkt-stock-jumps-over-40-after-naming-crypto-vet-mike-alf…

Snowflake, Salesforce, and others announce the Open Semantic Interchange, a vendor-neutral standard for how business data is defined and shared across platforms (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-usd1-trillion-ai-…

A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/khazna-data-center-uae/

The invisible backbone of the UAE’s AI superpower dreams
UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.

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

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.

Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search…

OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data
As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-energy-supply-data-centers/

Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers
Mexico's lagging energy grid is forcing companies, including Microsoft, to use generators.

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

Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent (Casey Crownhart/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemin…

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.

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 […]

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)

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

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.

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.