@Techmeme@techhub.socialProtege, 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-…
@crell@phpc.socialAdvanced PHPUnit Data Provider shenanigans. #PHP
Part 1: https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/fun-with-phpunit-data-providers
Part 2:
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialTop 10 Browser Fingerprint Test Tools in 2025
A browser fingerprint is the unique set of data your browser and device reveal #online, such as system info, fonts, screen size, and #IPaddress. Detecting your #browser
@grumpybozo@toad.socialOr one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11
@carl@heath.socialDet 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUber 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…
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialRIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief.
Met vandaag een, zeg maar, 'kerstopleving'.
Het gewogen gemiddelde is gestegen van zo'n 345 tot 460.
Er zitten 9 nieuwe dagen in de data: 24/12 t/m 1/1, met 60%-5% van de meetstations (verre van compleet dus, nog een feestdagen-effect?). De laatste 2 dagen zijn juist weer lager maar dat betreft nog maar heel weinig meetstations.
#qp2t
@publicvoit@graz.socialWith the latest data added to #haveIbeenpwned I found out that #Dropbox lost my credentials a second time. 😔
So make sure to check #HIBP webpage with your email addresses and/or your domain to find out w…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialTotal Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deceo_club: CEO Club Memberships
A bipartite network of the memberships of chief executive officers and the social organizations (clubs) to which they belong, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Data originally collected by Galaskiewicz in 1985.
This network has 40 nodes and 95 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://
@KlausBulle@nfdi.socialDas #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…
@datascience@genomic.socialLets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn 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…
@matematico314@social.linux.pizzaAs mensagens carinhosas que eu coloco pra mim mesmo nos alarmes do celular rs.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis utter arsehole is happy to posture but as leader of the world's 6th richest country he won't contribute to the vital fund to protect and restore tropical rainforests.
This utter arsehole postures on climate while greenlighting huge energy guzzling data centres.
This utter arsehole is happy to expand aviation while witterring about 'climate consensus'
Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - BBC News…
@servelan@newsie.socialRespectfully, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/bill-gates-climate-strategic-pivot-critique-microsoft-data-centers-ai/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I have made arrangements to return my uni loan laptop since I think that one part of my planned research will not happen, I am fixing a couple of historical data glitches in my solar PV generation gathering, and I may start work publishing an independent set of temp/RH% measurements for my home for last year. I have been invited out this evening to the big smoke (central London) by friends…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza#FreeSoftwareAdvent KeePassXC is the best password manager I've used.
Can create strong passwords, store TOTP data, organize in folders all the keys, add comments...
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialAnd on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialAnd on a non- political gripe: Once again, #Google maps directions for walking wants to send me across a busy street, midway between 2 traffic lights.
Why does Google want pedestrians to take risks? Or do they just want to kill me because I'm not taking Waymo?
This is a well mapped area (San Francisco) so they must have the data on both traffic and signals.
@cdarwin@c.imI have prompted Google Gemini (with Nano Banana engine) to generate the image of historical Jesus by using scientific data on him and ignoring iconography
Here, we see a typical wandering preacher from Galilee of the first years AD. This is a plausible image of how the real Jesus might look like
https://
@floheinstein@chaos.socialI just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizzaI"m currently thinking a bit how I want to organise my stuff.
I noticed that for a long time I only managed my calendar through the Nextcloud interface.
Which lead to the following questions.
- What if I would carry all my data with me?
- How much disk space would I need?
- Or what if I would go back to manually syncing things?
- How does #localfirst lo…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialALL THE WINS 🎉
"The races came in quickly... because it wasn't even close."
▶️ WHY GOP LOST: See stunning voter data rattling Trump in Ari’s 2025 elex ... - MSNBC
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZDT5jHZdEUc&si=vVduHOyIFdCajWd0
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgsom vanligt toppennyhetsbrev av @… https://dekaminski.se/?mailpoe…
@CordWiljes@nfdi.socialOn 5 December, the European Commission ruled that the platform X was in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and issued a penalty of 120 million EUR. One of the three rules that X was found in breach of was “Failure to provide researchers access to public data: X fails to meet its DSA obligations to provide researchers with access to the platform's public data (…).” This breach was fined 40 million EUR (Source:
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social*Corporate stupidity entry No. 120023:*
The intranet sends out eMail notifications for new articles. The eMail contains just a teaser text but a huge meaningless header picture. You have to click and authenticate to read the full content. Like it's a click-bait platform that lives off the advertising and data tracking and not the corporate Intranet.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMississippi 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…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSatellites spot rapid “Doomsday Glacier” collapse #environment
@EgorKotov@datasci.social🗺️ Building routes with 𝐑 𝐎𝐒𝐑𝐌 on 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐌𝐚𝐩 data and tired of switching to terminal and breaking the workflow?
Just use osrm.backend::osrm_start("your_data_folder")
• No need to pre-install 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 or 𝐨𝐬𝐫𝐦-𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 native app — it’s handled for you on macOS, Windows, and Linux automagically
• No manual graph prep (though you can, see options for advanced users)
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@crell@phpc.socialI do not support or condone malicious hacking, destruction of private data, or the unwilling sharing of private data.
Unless it's Nazis. Then screw 'em.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de#TGIQF: Star Trek – Next Generation: Das Quiz
Die Star-Trek-Abenteuer um Picard, Data und Co. gelten bis heute als eine der beliebtesten SciFi-Serien. Im heise Quiz beamen wir Sie ins nächste Jahrhundert.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialSo AI Datacenters are going to space...
https://research.google/blog/exploring
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialBecome a partner and learn about the latest trends and buzz in the world of Data, Search and Machine Learning, while simultaneously supporting Open Source communities through your sponsorship!
If your company or organization would like to support #bbuzz, please email us at partner@berlinbuzzwords.de.
To learn more, visit: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/become-a-partner/
@cheryanne@aus.socialMake Me Data Literate
features Dr Linda McIver interviewing fascinating people who work with Data, asking the question: What is the one thing you wish everyone knew about data...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/make-me-data-lit…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedblp_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
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft, 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPolymarket 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
@datascience@genomic.socialNeed some data to test a plot idea or algorithm? On #rstats #synthetic…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialIf there is any truth in these allegations, we really have to worry about that is going on in both AGS and GSOC.
The initial story was bad enough: the Irish police service being so incompetent that their statistics on homicides were wildly incorrect, and the whistleblower getting penalised; but this is batshit.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: 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
@matematico314@social.linux.pizzaAchei aqui um dorflex gotas, completamente lacrado, mas cuja data de vencimento indicava que deveria ser tomado no mšximo até 30/9/25. O quão seguro é tomar isso agora?
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI’m thinking that this is likely to be a consequence of so many other states taking tangibly Fascist turns. @… https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/115845146364081…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPolymarket 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDiscord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
@datascience@genomic.socialAutomatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dednc: 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
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialRIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Na de stijging vorige week, deze week juist weer een daling.
Er zitten 7 nieuwe dagen in de data, van 27/10-2/11 met resp. 95%-1% van de meetstations. Vooral de laatste drie dagen stellen nog weinig voor qua data.
Het gewogen gemiddelde is wel gezakt van rond de 765 naar rond de 665.
#qp2t
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSeveral 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehigh_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
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUber 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deflorentine_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
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLocal governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defaa_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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnowflake 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-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deroute_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 3836 nodes and 7574 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIsraeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/08/cyera-c
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple and Google say they've developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between each platform as part of a joint collaboration (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-iphone-switching/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDavid Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based data center company GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/89040806-8e66-49b5-a2d0-37d813af5d01
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_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 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deterrorists_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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-de…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deterrorists_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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-commissio
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deterrorists_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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend "at least $600B" (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-plans-600-billio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoreno_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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware to accelerate data workloads, raised $25M, including a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which will also have prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-finance…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B just weeks ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-data-cen…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSimilarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLicense plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/meta-hires-chief-legal-officer-cj-mahoney
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang warns "China is going to win the AI race", after the US kept a ban on high-end AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by "cynicism" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53295276-ba8d-4ec2-b0de-081e73b3ba43
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSingapore-based data center operator DayOne raised a $2B Series C led by Coatue to build hyperscale campuses in Lahti and Kouvola, Finland, and elsewhere (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/dayone-da…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the company's $1.4T infrastructure buildout that's required to reach AGI (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/openai-greg-brockman-ai-infrastructure-data-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting "hundreds of billions by 2030" (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
