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Why the Slowdown of Kryder’s Law Spells Urgency for Sustainable Archival Storage

Dataversity

Kryder’s Law, named after Mark Kryder – the former SVP of research at Seagate Technology – is an observation comparable to Moore’s Law but specifically related to the area of magnetic disk storage. It posits that the density of information stored on magnetic disks is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every 18 months.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Hacker News

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Here the evidence from the archives is murky, but it appears that only Egbert’s skull and the teeth of Ksâr ‘Akil 4 were successfully extracted. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Meet the winners of the Pale Blue Dot challenge

DrivenData Labs

One critical tool for understanding and improving the urgent challenges facing our world is Earth observation (EO) data, meaning data that is gathered in outer space about life here on Earth! Earth observation data provides accurate and free information on our atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, land cover, and built environment.

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Unexpected Connections Emerge at CDS’ Weekly Data Science Lunch Seminar

NYU Center for Data Science

The interdisciplinary nature of CDS naturally lends itself to a wide variety of topics,” Wald observed. The series has been a fixture at CDS since the center’s early days, with the website archive stretching back to 2013. We’ve found that this diversity emerges organically based on the interests of our speakers and attendees.”

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Breaking down the Okta Data Breach: What happened?

Dataconomy

Sensitive data exposed : While specific details about the exposed data were not disclosed, it is known that the breached system contained HTTP Archive (HAR) files. This system is used for managing customer support tickets and related data. These files are used to record browser activity for troubleshooting purposes.

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Discover the Power of Analytical Insights in Your Business Data

Smart Data Collective

Reading and observing the visual representation gives various conclusions. According to the observations, the goal for the requirement of the information conclusion is transformed into insights. It is the same case for businesses, not to mention that they have extensive archives for storing business-related facts and figures.

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US Launches Data Privacy Framework Program Website: Here’s What You Should Know

ODSC - Open Data Science

Privacy, as it pertains to data, means providing full control to the data owner over how their data is accessed, observed, and used. If there is consent for an entity to access, observe, or use someone’s data, it is safe to say that there is no privacy violation. It does not mean an absolute prohibition against data collection and use.