22.9 petabits per second

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/japanese-institute-breaks-optical-fiber-speed-record-with-229-petabits-per-second-1000-times-faster-than-existing-cables

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

AI definitely increased the number of bots over the past year.

https://www.techspot.com/news/101016-malicious-bots-make-up-nearly-three-quarters-internet.html

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whaFz0uyBB79qcEh-7q=wUOAbGHaMPofJfxGqguiKzFyQ@mail.gmail.com/

It gets even worse. Trust no one folks …

https://www.adslgr.com/forum/threads/1265948-%CE%A4%CE%BF-Google-Drive-%CF%86%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%87%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%87%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD

So Microsoft introduced Excel Python in August. A useful feature that could help tremendously with data processing and research.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-started-with-python-in-excel-a33fbcbe-065b-41d3-82cf-23d05397f53d