#TheWeekinData: Brief exposure
* 16 billion login details found online
* Copyright judgment in the US
* Improving health through data infrastructure
We’ve not had a data breach story for a few weeks but we’ve got one that more than makes up for it. Find out more...
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#TheWeekinData: Can’t Buy Me Love (unless it’s with crypto)
* UK crypto capital
* 23andMe sale…and fine
* Donkey spotting
The Beatles…football…Eurovision 2023…crypto…That’s right, I’m talking about Liverpool! But you must have guessed that already.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/cant-buy-me-love-unless-its-with-crypto

#TheWeekinData: Nobody puts baby in a corner
* PM launches national skills drive at London Tech Week
* Data (Use and Access) Bill finally passes
* Vulpine tenants
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer kicked off London Tech Week on Monday with a speech pledging that tech can create a better future for children. Find out more…
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/nobody-puts-baby-in-a-corner

#TheWeekinData: The winner takes it all
* Parliamentary ping-pong
* More data woes for ONS
* A not-at-all-sinister-looking badminton-playing robot
The Data (Use and Access) Bill is now officially a political football. Or ping-pong ball. Or whichever sporting sphere metaphor you prefer. On Monday, the House of Lords dealt a fourth blow to the government with a rejection of the latest amendment. Find out more…
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/the-winner-takes-it-all

#TheWeekinData: Don't use the F-word Iona!
* Data hacks on NHS Trusts
* Ethics professor sacked for falsifying data
* AI tool cuts down food waste
Wow. They just keep coming. That or they’re just being reported more. Anyway, this week, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust reported having data stolen in cyberattacks, raising the prospect of highly sensitive patient data being exposed...
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/dont-use-the-f-word-iona

#TheWeekinData: Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more
* Legal Aid data hack
* Half of young people would rather live without the internet
* When is a summer reading list not a summer reading list?
After a spate of high-profile cyber attacks in recent weeks, the trend showed no sign of easing up this week. Legal Aid was hacked back in April, it was revealed this week by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)...
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/once-more-unto-the-breach-dear-friends,-once-more

#TheWeekinData: Not just any personal data, but your personal data
* Personal data stolen in M&S hack
* Amendment to the data bill
* Audiobook narrators could be Toast
Three weeks after the cyber attack on Marks & Spencer, company chief executive Stuart Machin has written to customers revealing that some personal customer data was stolen in the attack.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/not-just-any-personal-data-but-your-personal-data

#TheWeekinData: You give code cracking a bad name
* New AI model for preventative care
* AI vs Enigma
* It’s always raining somewhere…almost
Medical data from 57 million people in England is being used to train a new AI model, named Foresight, in the hope it will predict diseases and medical conditions before they arise. Find out more…
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/you-give-code-cracking-a-bad-name

#TheWeekinData: Why didn’t they ask Elton?
* Retailers hit by cyber attacks
* Copyright and piracy
* Bringing back Agatha
As anybody who needs to order flowers for their mum’s birthday will know (note to self), Marks and Spencer is still reeling from last week’s cyber attack. Find out more…
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/why-didnt-they-ask-elton

#TheWeekinData: Entirely optional reading material
* New rules to keep children safe online
* Intrusive AI
* Never put a tiger in a Michelin-star kitchen
The UK’s communications watchdog has announced new rules for social media and other platforms to keep children safe online.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/entirely-optional-reading-material

#TheWeekinData: Three billionaires, one billion users, and some spotted speaking dolphins

* ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Users?
* OpenAI considering its own social network
* AI helping decode dolphin communication
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has "inadvertently" revealed at TED 2025 that ChatGPT may have hit the billion-user milestone, doubling its user base "in just weeks."
Find out more

http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/three-billionaires-one-billion-users-some-spotted-speaking-dolphins

#TheWeekinData: Take the power back
* Datacentre power concerns
* ONS data revamp
* It’s an avatar, m’lud
A new report published this week by the International Energy Agency has projected that the worldwide demand for electricity from data centres is set to more than double by 2030.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/take-the-power-back

#TheWeekinData: Original pirate material
* Good week for OpenAI
* Bad week for creatives
* Stranger than fiction
It’s been a brilliant week for billionaire Sam Altman - although I’m not sure when it isn’t a brilliant week for billionaires. OpenAI raised $40 billion thanks to a fundraising round by Japanese investment firm Softbank, in a deal that now values the AI giant at $300 billion. Find out more...
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/original-pirate-material

#TheWeekinData: Faulty Signal path
* Signal-gate and data leaks
* Warning over 23and Me data
* 3,614,428 hours of untreated effluent
We’ve all been there. You get added to a family message group, there are loads of messages flying around, what time to get there, what time the spuds need peeling, and then Nan chimes in and tells you what time she’s bombing Yemen. No? Me neither.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/faulty-signal-path

#TheWeekinData: Life, the universe and everything
*World’s first AI-generated newspaper
*The Independent to launch news service supported by Google AI
*Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens

This week saw the first AI-generated newspaper by Il Foglio as part of a month-long experiment to test the impact of AI.

Find out more about this and other stories in The Week in Data

http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/life-the-universe-and-everything

#TheWeekinData: Text appeal
* Secret appeals
* Civil service cuts
* AI propositions
Apple will appeal against the UK government’s demand to access customers’ data this week at a secret high court hearing, due to take place today. The appeal will be heard by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the independent judicial body that considers complaints about the conduct of the UK intelligence services.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/text-appeal

#TheWeekinData: AI Face/Off
* TikTok investigated by ICO
* Workers not yet embracing AI
* Computer says no
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, has launched a major investigation into TikTok over the use of children’s personal information. Find out more.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/ai-face-off

#TheWeekinData: The sound of silence
* Apple pulls high-level data security for UK users
* Silent protest album
* AI history lessons?
Apple has pulled its high level data security tool for UK users after the government demanded access to user data. The UK government asked for the right to access users’ data, covered by Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end encryption tool. Find out more.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/the-sound-of-silence

#TheWeekinData: Rolling back the years
* DeepSeek sharing data?
* Google’s AI co-scientist
* Buffy’s back
Just a few weeks ago, DeepSeek was unleashed on the world and the stock market promptly went into meltdown. And now? Well, it’s very much on the naughty step.
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/rolling-back-the-years

#TheWeekinData: Roses are red, premature declarations of love aren’t true
* AI Action Summit
* Data deletions
* Dodging Cupid’s arrow
http://theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/roses-are-red-premature-declarations-of-love-arent-true