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  How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist - The New York Times The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen. Nathaniel Rich examined the Verizon heist while conducting research for his novel “Cloudthief.” The bankers “were involved in prime mortgages” and had “circumnavigated” certain regulations. Damning evidence of these circumnavigations could be found in banking files held in the King’s Cross area in a giant building known as a data center. This data center was operated by the business division of Verizon, which had inherited the facility, and about 20 other data centers, through a recent series of corporate mergers. Among the corporations that rented server space from Verizon were various major financial institutions, including one of the world’s largest banks. Ellis’s assignment was to break into the data center and steal around 80 servers that hosted the incriminating fil...

  STATISTA US Population Growth Projections Corrected Downwards y Katharina Buchholz,   Jul 10, 2026 The population of the United States is projected to keep on climbing beyond 2100. However, the rate of increase that can be expected until 2050 has been significantly corrected downwards over the last couple of years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, 349 million people live in the United States in 2026. In 2050, this is expected to have risen to 364 million. In 2019, previous to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2050 forecast had still shown a U.S. population of 389 million. As seen in the data, U.S. population projections were substantially impacted by Covid-19, as the country experienced high excess mortality and projections kept being corrected downwards due to this fact. In the years when the pandemic subsided, forecasts showed higher expected population numbers again, while 2025 and 2026 projections trended lower once more. The latest 2026 forecast reached a new l...

  STATISTA: US POPULATION GROWTH BIRTHS VS IMMIGRATION by Katharina Buchholz,  Jul 10, 2026 The U.S. population grew by around 1.8 million people last year and immigrants made up more than 70 percent of that increase. Immigration is responsible for a rising share of U.S. population growth, while fewer births taking place in the country have diminished the role of natural population increase, as shown in figures by the U.S. Census Bureau. Apart from this general trend, fluctuations tied to immigration policy are clearly visible in the data (as is the release of a new Census in 2021). During the first Trump administration, fewer immigrants settled permanently in the country in 2017-2019, causing the share of immigration in population growth to shrink. The same happened in 2025 when immigrant settlements fell once again from their post-Covid peak (after the pandemic itself had been another factor that disrupted immigration flows). In 2011, only around 35 percent of U.S. populatio...

  STATISTA: How Global Population Growth is Slowing by Katharina Buchholz,   Jul 10, 2026 According to UN calculations, the world's population will cross the 10-billion mark in 2061. By the end of the century, however, this number will have started to decline slightly, having reached a high around 10.3 billion in 2084. Leading up to this reversal, the growth of the global populace has actually been slowing down for decades, as seen in numbers by the UN Population Division. The organization celebrates World Population Day on Saturday. While the above figures are according to the UN's medium scenario of moderate fertility, a case where global birth rates sink even more drastically would result in a reversal of population growth already around the early 2060s, at a high of just under 10 billion people on Earth. This would result in a world population around 9 billion again by the end of the century. Some academics believe that a global population decline at an even faster rate is...