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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The latest gadget for tech masochists – the "Pro Max 5x" – guzzles your data like a toddler with a juice box. 🍹 1.5 hours of "moderate usage" later, you're left pondering if "Pro Max" is short for "Professional Maximum #Inefficiency." 🙄
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756 #technews #gadgets #datausage #productreview #breakingnews #HackerNews #ngated

[BUG] Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage · Issue #45756 · anthropics/claude-code

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Andrew Armstrong Mar 26

Create Live Tile to Display Network Data Usage in Windows 10 | #Guide #Microsoft #Windows10 #LiveTiles #NetworkMonitoring #DataUsage #TechTips
https://techygeekshome.info/create-live-tile-to-display-network-data-usage-in-windows-10/?fsp_sid=29566

BakersRelay Jan 17

#ICE #DataUsage #USPol

From KQED Bay Area: How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It - Sep 12, 2025

https://www.kqed.org/news/12055606/how-ice-is-using-your-data-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It

ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.

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o lаvrоvsky Jan 7

Sabine W. is writing a bachelor thesis in Data Science at DBU to investigate whether #transparency about #datausage and having more detailed #privacy options influence people’s willingness to donate their #chatbot conversation data for open source AI model #research

If you live in #Switzerland please spare 5 minutes on the survey: https://chat-study.ailights.org/

Chatbot study

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Sep 24, 2025

The Register: One of TikTok’s network boffins says it causes ‘massive data wastage’ . “Before Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch put pen to paper to take over TikTok’s US operations from ByteDance, they might want to consider that one of the Chinese company’s network boffins thinks the app and others like it create ‘massive data wastage’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/24/the-register-one-of-tiktoks-network-boffins-says-it-causes-massive-data-wastage/

Hacker News Jul 18, 2025

Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1m000kp/trying_to_send_a_sticker_in_steam_chat_burned/

#HackerNews #SteamChat #Sticker #MobileData #DataUsage #TechFails

ResearchBuzz: Firehose May 22, 2025

Technology Times (Nigeria): Nigeria crosses one million terabytes in monthly data use: Analysis. “Nigeria’s data consumption has hit an all-time monthly high of 1,000,930.60 terabytes in January 2025, crossing the one million terabyte threshold for the first time on record, according to latest official market indicators reviewed by Technology Times. The Nigerian Communications Commission […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/22/nigeria-crosses-one-million-terabytes-in-monthly-data-use-analysis-technology-times/

Nigeria crosses one million terabytes in monthly data use: Analysis (Technology Times) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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SoyaCincau Mar 28, 2025

Malaysia’s internet traffic continues to surge as MyIX recorded 17% YoY increase in 2024 #datausage #internet #internettraffic #malaysia #myix #news #telco

https://soyacincau.com/2025/03/28/myix-malaysia-internet-traffic-surge-17-pct-yoy-2024/

Malaysia's internet traffic continues to surge as MyIX recorded 17% YoY increase in 2024 - SoyaCincau

MyIX has recorded a 17% Year-on-Year increase in internet traffic last year, reaching an all-time high of 2.6Tbps. A positive indicator for Malaysia's digital economy.

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