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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-15 03:25:56

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
wired.com/story/the-data-cente

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-10-16 05:00:34

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Data Poisoning bei LLMs: Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff

Data Poisoning bei LLMs: Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff
Eine neue Studie widerlegt eine alte Sicherheitsannahme. Nicht der prozentuale Anteil, sondern eine geringe, feste Anzahl an Gift-Daten kompromittiert LLMs.

@anneroth@systemli.social
2025-11-16 11:35:36

Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
datacenterwa…

@datascience@genomic.social
2026-01-15 11:00:00

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

GitHub - tashapiro/tanya-data-viz: Personal data visualization side projects.
Personal data visualization side projects. Contribute to tashapiro/tanya-data-viz development by creating an account on GitHub.

@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 19:15:03

Installing Visual Studio 2026 to see what all the buzz is about. Planning to migrate my project data web api from .NET 9 to 10, along with the new ide.
#programming #visualstudio #dotnet <…

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-16 06:05:11

»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 koi.ai/blo…

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions | Koi Blog

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-16 12:00:40

"First assessment of UNESCO sites finds widespread climate impacts"
#UNESCO #Climate #ClimateChange

First assessment of UNESCO sites finds widespread climate impacts
Nearly all of UNESCO’s more than 2,200 World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and Geoparks have already endured climate extremes over the past two decades. That’s according to initial data from the first ever global biodiversity and climate assessment unveiled at the UNESCO World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, held in Hangzhou, China, from Sept. 22-26. The […]

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2026-01-15 03:15:07

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
promptarmor.com/resources/clau

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-16 01:00:05

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 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012). 38918 nodes, 32523 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/twitter_higgs#reply

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 06:11:06

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 19:11:09

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
therecord.media/google-youtube

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

@DamonHD@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 17:49:12

#today I have downloaded, converted and eyeballed ~21 million data points (temperature and humidity from around my home over one year)! Charts appearing on the page soon... I hope to publish this as an open data set and/or refer to it from a new paper...

16WW High Resolution Temperature/RH Dataset (2025)
High-resolution dataset for heating system monitoring. #heatBattery #microgen #dataset

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 09:45:16

Blip is amazing: it's kinda AirDrop that works over the Internet & locally on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android – Linux pending. Works with folders and data goes directly, no upload.
I've learned about it from MKBHD and I'm already sad how it'll inevitably go bad.
blip.net/

Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-16 01:44:10

The DOJ's effort to get voter data from California is blocked : NPR
npr.org/2026/01/15/nx-s1-56789

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-01-15 19:33:16

Nominations sought for the 2026 Rising Stars in Computational & Data Sciences Workshop to be held April 7-8, 2026, at the Santa Fe Institute in #SantaFe, NM. #NewMexico

@degrowthuk@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 15:56:27

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-10-16 07:39:55

Epic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts

Exploring Silicon Urbanism between and across Hsinchu and Dresden’s Urban-scapes, created by Xiaoxue Gao. Base layers: Top: hand-drawn city map of Hsinchu (©Tom Rook, used with permission); Down: snapshot of Dresden Germany 50×50 km 3DCityMaps, no License needed (3D model by 3polies, Data source: © OpenStreetMap contributors). Collage, colour and other creative adjustments by the author.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
2025-11-16 13:29:22

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1155
I still cannot comprehend how anyone could honestly consider a statistical model created from training data to be “intelligent”. Don't you remember the times when people knowingly smiled at anyo…

@hanno@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 12:08:11

I got a few updates about my investigations on EU emission databases after the 39C3 talk and the corresponding newsletter I published. Update below the article:
industrydecarbonization.com/ne

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 08:02:07

Heute vor 62 Jahren: Am 16. Oktober 1963 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Niblick die 11. #Atombombe "Clearwater". Niblick war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 63/64 bei der insgesamt 41 #Kernwaffentests

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Niblick (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@mia@hcommons.social
2025-11-15 11:16:14

'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' theguardian.com/books/2025/nov

Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis
Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm

@TFG@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-16 06:23:56

Want to get rid of unwanted stuff in your webbrowser - like telemetry or #ai
There's a git project for FF, Chrome and Edge and a website:
github.com/corbindavenport/jus

GitHub - corbindavenport/just-the-browser: Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers. - corbindavenport/just-the-browser

@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 15:56:25

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2026-01-13 16:27:39

The first and only serious alternative to the #iOS App Store #Setapp is already pulling out of Apple's mobile platforms again. This seems exactly what #Apple was aiming for wi…

Screenshot of an email from Setapp by MacPaw. The message informs that Setapp Mobile is being discontinued. The reason is complex business conditions. The service will end on February 16, 2026, and all mobile apps will be removed. Users should back up their data beforehand. Mac and iOS apps in the Setapp subscription remain unchanged; there is information about cancellation and refunds.
@ripienaar@devco.social
2025-12-15 21:12:01

Got my config manager POC’d up at all levels now.
Single resource on the CLI
Idempotent shell scripts
Manifests
Globally distributed runner with patterns like rolling restarting deploys etc.
All with hierarchical data delivered via key-value store
The distributed model is using tech that. Is currently running on 7 figure node deployments.
Exciting stuff. Will make a video.
Next to make it a bit more robust etc

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 19:42:53

F*%! #interrail and railway operators that require passport information
interrail.eu/en/ni/data-securi

What does this mean for you? Although our investigation is still ongoing, our early review indicates that your personal data has been accessed, which may include: Identity information: first name, last name, date of birth, gender; Contact information: email address, home address, telephone number, if provided; Passport information: passport number, country of issue and expiration date (not including copies of the documents).
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 11:05:52

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2025/data-cent

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

@dawid@social.craftknight.com
2026-01-15 14:58:14
Paczka za 5e z Too Good To Go - jeszcze pan w piekarni się martwił czy to nie zamało! To nawet nie było wczorajsze, a po prostu z nocnego wypieku na rano...

#microblog #sycylia
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-11-16 02:23:49

OK, that’s bad, but WTF is anyone doing in a supermarket without a mask? @… infosec.exchange/@RedwoodSec/1

RedwoodSec (@RedwoodSec@infosec.exchange)
Walmart now uses AI-based surveillance cameras in all its stores and is rolling out body cameras to associates to collect even more video of customers that are fed into its storage. Kroger, Fred Meyer, and QFC are also now using AI-based video surveillance and also store facial data of every customer that enters their stores. Going grocery shopping in America is becoming a privacy nightmare that will only get worse. #ai #privacy

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-15 18:39:45

📊 Risk assessment: For most use cases (server admin, development, non-sensitive data), the practical risk is low. Your Docker logs and configs likely won't be
valuable in 15 years. However, healthcare, finance, and government sectors should act now.
⚙️ Quick fix: Suppress the warning by adding LogLevel ERROR to ~/.ssh/config for specific hosts. Better solution: Enable post-quantum key exchange on your SSH

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-01-13 22:33:46

This might cause some "interesting" side effects...
"Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
rawstory.com/ice-agents-data-l

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-01-14 17:00:49

"Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal"
#Oceans #Environment

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal
In December 2022, nearly 200 nations committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up […]

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 15:00:03

ceo_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

ceo_club: CEO Club Memberships. 40 nodes, 95 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/ceo_club

ceo_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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 03:16:37

Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)
finovate.com/data-privacy-mana

Data Privacy Management Software Provider Basis Theory Secures $33 Million - Finovate
Data management innovator Basis Theory has secured $33 million in Series B funding.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-15 01:31:32

Tina Peters appeals Colorado convictions over voting machine data leak | Courthouse News Service
courthousenews.com/tina-peters

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 21:15:59

Luminate's 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY; on-demand US streams hit 1.4T, up 4.6% YoY; Christian/gospel music grew 18.5% (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

@DamonHD@mastodon.social
2026-01-15 07:57:22

#today I have to select a paper for Journal Club and re-recreate the group invitation which seems to have partly rotted within the Exchange server. Also I will do some extra tests on the data gathered yesterday, since fixing now will be much easier than in a month. And catch up with the #NewScientist

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-11-14 06:05:16

bulletty - The TUI RSS/ATOM feed reader that lets you decide where to store your data.
bulletty is a TUI feed reader (RSS and ATOM). Read your subscriptions within your terminal. It downloads the entries for offline reading so all the data is local and yours: your subscriptions, highlights, comments, etc. All in an universal format: Markdown. Backup and sync your data directory your own way.
📰

Animation: bulletty - The TUI RSS/ATOM feed reader that lets you decide where to store your data.
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 08:02:21

Heute vor 39 Jahren: Am 16.10.1986 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Musketeer die Atombombe "Belmont". Musketeer war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1986/87 insgesamt 16 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Musketeer (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 12:10:46

Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-15 18:00:50

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

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010). 1402673 nodes, 2777419 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/hyves

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-15 17:55:52

Apple will now require app developers to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers and companies (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/appl

Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI' | TechCrunch
Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 18:11:02

FIFA makes Stats Perform its first official data and betting streaming rights distributor to licensed sportsbooks for the 2026 World Cup and other events (Rohith Nair/Reuters)
reuters.com/sports/soccer/fifa

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-15 01:33:08

No widespread evidence of migrant voting fraud despite Trump’s claims, review finds | The Independent
independent.co.uk/news/world/a

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-14 18:00:44

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

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010). 1402673 nodes, 2777419 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/hyves

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.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 06:25:19

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16. Dezember 1970 kam es zum #Atomtest "Artesia". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Atomtestdetonationen zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Emery (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada Test Site (NTS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 23:30:46

Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford

Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid  | TechCrunch
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 05:00:50

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

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010). 1402673 nodes, 2777419 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/hyves

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.

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-14 08:05:18

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 wired.com/stor…

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-14 19:40:51

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95% of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/14/jpmorgan-c

JPMorgan Chase wins fight with fintech firms over fees to access customer data
The JPMorgan Chase deals mark a shift in the power dynamic between banks, middlemen and the fintech apps that are increasingly threatening incumbents.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 06:25:26

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 16.12.1970 kam es simultan zu 4 #Atomtests "Avens-Andorre/Alkermes/Asamite/Cream". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Tests zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Emery (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada Test Site (NTS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-13 23:05:51

US BLS data: video and videogame subscriptions and rentals saw inflation of 19.5% in December; cable, satellite, and livestreaming rose 1.1%, same as music subs (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

“Streamflation” Is Real: U.S. Inflation Data Shows Soaring Price of Streaming Video Services
Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday showed that overall inflation cooled in December ... but streaming video prices soared by nearly 20 percent.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-16 13:00:04

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".

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994). 1107 nodes, 3713 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/add_health#comm54

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".

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 04:45:49

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet

SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion For Next-Gen AI Data Center Chips
SiFive has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect technology into its forthcoming silicon platforms.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 06:25:32

Heute vor 47 Jahren: Am 16.12.1978 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Quicksilver die 3. Atombombe "Farm". Quicksilver war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1978/79 insgesamt 16 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Quicksilver (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 22:00:04

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 …

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network. 774 nodes, 1779 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/product_space#SITC

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 network based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 11:30:50

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native
The internet infrastructure company wants AI developers to pay creators for content they use in their models.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 08:16:47

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 15. November 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Auger". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Bowline (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 10:10:40

The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-m

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-16 10:00:04

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013). 329 nodes, 668 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school#survey

sp_high_school — High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 17:55:50

Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
irishtimes.com/business/2026/0

Equal1 raises $60m in funding to deploy quantum computing technology
UCD spinout has developed a quantum server for data centres

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 08:16:55

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 15. November 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Ming Vase". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Bowline (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 20:00:04

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013). 329 nodes, 502 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school#diaries

sp_high_school — High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 22:50:50

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
therecord.media/google-youtube

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 14:30:42

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/gene

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-14 23:00:04

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

florentine_families: Padgett Florentine families. 16 nodes, 35 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/florentine_families

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.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 08:16:58

Heute vor 36 Jahren: Am 14. November 1989 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Muleshoe". Die Operation Aqueduct war eine Serie von 10 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1989 und 1990 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Aqueduct (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-14 20:00:04

dutch_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 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003). 26 nodes, 87 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/dutch_school#klas12b-primary

dutch_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.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 08:16:51

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 15. November 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Knife-B". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Kartierung aller Koordinaten von "Operation Bowline (Atomtest)" im Testgebiet Nevada (Nevada National Security Site, NNSS) Quelle: OpenStreetMap Lizenz: Open Data Commons Open Database-Lizenz (ODbL)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-14 12:30:51

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 18:31:08

Verizon says it is "aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers", as thousands of users report no cellular reception (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)
techradar.com/news/live/verizo

Verizon may be down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this potential outage
Seemingly 'SOS' is replacing network bars

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 11:00:05

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

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010). 1226 nodes, 2615 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faa_routes

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 04:27:33

Verizon says that it resolved "an issue impacting wireless voice and data services" that caused 100,000 customers to lose reception for 10 hours on Wednesday (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)
techradar.com/news/live/verizo

Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage
Seemingly 'SOS' is replacing network bars

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 00:02:32

Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B , vs. $58.37B est., excluding impact from the $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/15/salesforce

Salesforce stock jumps after company offers rosy forecast for 2030
Salesforce is counting on Agentforce artificial intelligence software to pull in more revenue from customers.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-16 08:00:04

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998). 24129 nodes, 95580 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/movielens_100k

movielens_100k — MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.)

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 01:01:40

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
news.crunchbase.com/fintech/fu

Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks
Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-15 15:00:06

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network. 214 nodes, 318346 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fao_trade

fao_trade — FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-16 04:31:39

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ai

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 10:00:05

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 3271 nodes and 6246 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998). 3271 nodes, 6246 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/route_views#19980121

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 16:15:50

The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (Andrew McCalip)
andrewmccalip.com/space-datace

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-15 00:00:06

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network. 214 nodes, 318346 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fao_trade

fao_trade — FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-14 21:00:04

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…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018). 560 nodes, 6460 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/us_agencies#virginia

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 URL, and year the website was indexed by the Internet Archive …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-14 21:20:52

Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 06:21:00

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-16 10:00:04

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…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History). 145 nodes, 4538 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring#history

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

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-16 12:00:04

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…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History). 145 nodes, 4538 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring#history

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 02:46:04

CoinDesk Data: Binance's market share of spot crypto trading fell to 25% in December, its lowest since 2021, and it is also losing ground in derivatives trading (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-16 13:40:44

Uber plans to launch data labelling tasks in the US for some drivers to earn extra money, appearing under "digital tasks" in the driver app, later this fall (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-15 14:50:56

A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-hype-m

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 12:40:50

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
reuters.com/sustainability/boa

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 13:35:41

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (Silla Brush/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 20:36:06

PJM trims summer 2027 peak demand forecast to ~160 GW from ~164 GW because some projects, including data centers, lack firm service or construction commitments (Naureen S Malik/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-16 03:15:43

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-stoc

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 12:25:43

AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 16:41:01

OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 07:21:15

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
reuters.com/sustainability/cli

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-13 20:35:45

Anthropic open sources a method to score AI model political evenhandedness; Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66% (Ina Fried/Axios)
axios.com/2025/11/13/anthropic

Anthropic tries to measure bot bias
There's no consensus over what constitutes political bias in AI systems.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 00:50:57

Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
businessinsider.com/trump-micr

Trump says that Microsoft will 'ensure' Americans don't 'pick up the tab' for its data center power consumption
President Donald Trump said that tech companies must pay for their own data centers without spiking utility bills for American households.