New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...
Columbia Journalism Review

Scraper Factories

Writing a scraper or two for a story is (usually) a fairly straightforward task for a data journalist who knows a bit of code ...
IEEE

Automating Web Data Collection: Challenges, Solutions, and Python-Based Strategies for Effective Web Scraping

Abstract: The process of collecting and retrieving such a massive amount of data is difficult, especially when manual approach is the only option. Instead, we can use web scraping to automate the ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
The Guardian

Why data sleuths are archiving the Jeffrey Epstein files: ‘We want to provide some clarity’

Tommy Carstensen oversees one of the most sophisticated archives of Epstein materials, while Tristan Lee’s database allows searches of faces who appear in the files Before the US Department of Justice ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...