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  Ars Technica : data
25  july     11h00
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
Mureji Fatunde-Iloeje    Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.
18  february     19h01
Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
John Timmer    Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
27  january     23h28
Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.
Beth Mole    Anti-vaccine Kennedy may be enacting a self-fulfilling prophecy, expert says.
23  october     21h20
Researchers show that training on junk data can lead to LLM brain rot
Kyle Orland    Models trained on short, popular, and or superficial tweets perform worse on benchmarks.
23  february     17h13
Reddit cashes in on AI gold rush with 203M in LLM training license fees
Kyle Orland    Two- to three-year deals with Google, others, come amid legal uncertainty over fair use.
06  june     19h03
Xbox COPPA violations cost Microsoft 20 million in FTC settlement
Kyle Orland    Complaint: MS didn’t notify parents until children’s info was already collected.
10  february     16h49
Twitter ditches free access to data, potentially hindering research
Doug Johnson    For the low, low price of 100 month, you can have basic access to Twitter’s API.
01  february     19h23
Won’t somebody please think of the insects?
Doug Johnson    Global protected areas safeguard many plants and animals, but insects? Not so much.
16  january     22h49
WHO presses China for more data after COVID death tally leaps from 37 to 60K
Beth Mole    The new death toll figure should be considered the minimum.
15  august     22h33
CDC to regain control of US hospital data after Trump-era seizure, chaos
Beth Mole    TeleTracking, which has personal ties to Trump, made over 50M in federal contracts.
04  may     17h41
Discs vs. data: Are we helping the environment by streaming?
Doug Johnson    The number of caveats has only grown since the last few studies were done.
21  february     14h09
Study: Reducing poverty and climate goals aren’t at odds
Doug Johnson    Moving 1 billion people out of poverty would only slightly increase emissions.
10  august     23h23
Florida is ablaze with COVID-19 and its case data reporting is a hot mess
Beth Mole    However you look at the data, Florida is seeing record-high cases and hospitalizations.
03  july     13h35
Wimbledon: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament
Sebastian Anthony    From the archives: There’s a surprising amount of cool tech for a 140-year-old event.
12  may     22h01
Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers
Samuel Axon    Vizio’s ads, streaming, and data business grew 133 percent year over year.
30  march     22h18
Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says
Dan Goodin    Google contests the estimate, saying it’s based on flawed methodology.
12  january     13h55
Electricity and CRISPR used to write data to bacterial DNA
John Timmer    Although it’s inefficient, we can use voltage changes to write data to bacteria.
31  july     13h30
COVID-19 hospital data is a hot mess after feds take control
Beth Mole    With weird discrepancies and fluctuations, COVID trackers say the data is less useful.
20  may     20h00
Ousted scientist says she was asked to manipulate Florida COVID-19 data
Kate Cox    Jones said she was ordered to manually change data to support reopening.
08  august     23h51
Blogger says she got an injunction for a post published five days earlier
Dan Goodin    Post that reported 300,000 unsecured records is also subject of a criminal complaint.
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