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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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