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A criminal investigation is now underway in Finland targeting Google's local subsidiary over its Muhos data center project. Authorities received five complaints after eight hundred sixteen acres of forest were cleared without proper approval, displacing wildlife including wolves into nearby villages. Residents are also facing potential power bill increases of forty percent, raising serious questions about how aggressively the AI infrastructure boom is being pushed forward at the expense of local communities and ecosystems.
Closer to home, a significant data exposure has come to light involving a platform called CitySourced, connected to government technology services across the country. A security researcher discovered an unsecured database containing forty two million documents, many holding personally identifiable information including names, contact details, and internal complaint records. The database has since been secured, but the incident underscores how often sensitive civic data sits quietly exposed in misconfigured cloud storage.
On a lighter note, Nintendo's Switch two is getting a bit more accessible this week. Woot, Amazon's discount sister site, is offering the handheld console bundled with a free digital game for as low as four hundred fifty nine dollars for new customers using a promotional code. It is a limited window, but for families weighing the purchase, the timing is convenient heading into the holiday season.
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