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Britain's data center ambitions are running into a very physical problem: water. A key industry trade body is warning the UK government that plans to treble data center capacity by two thousand thirty have largely ignored the enormous water demands required to keep those systems cool, with peak stress periods making average consumption figures dangerously misleading.
Shifting from infrastructure to surveillance, researchers at Recorded Future have uncovered a campaign linked to Iranian state actors distributing fake VPN and media player apps loaded with spyware. The cruel irony here is sharp — tools people download specifically to protect their privacy are being weaponized against them, with Iranian citizens themselves appearing to be the primary targets.
And for the researchers and data scientists who live inside Jupyter notebooks, a project called ipyflow is offering something genuinely useful: reactive execution. Rather than manually re-running cells after changing a variable, ipyflow tracks dependencies and updates outputs automatically — a small shift in workflow that could meaningfully reduce the cognitive overhead of exploratory analysis.
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