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Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
Cloudflare uses Radar and Bot Management data to show that after reported strikes on Yandex data centers, the traffic drop from Yandex Search was mostly verified crawlers, while malicious automation on Yandex.Cloud largely migrated to other hosting providers, a reminder that ASN traffic volume is a poor proxy for bot behavior.
7 min · 1,622 words
How many shots are in the average movie today?
Film-data researcher Stephen Follows counts the shots in 8,770 feature films released between 1930 and 2025 using automatic shot-boundary detection, showing how many shots a typical film has now, how cutting pace has changed over a century, and how it varies by director, genre, runtime, budget and awards.
11 min · 2,614 words
Our World in Data's Hannah Ritchie shows that while global electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century, the UK's peaked in 2003 and has fallen by over a third, explaining the roles of deindustrialization and energy-efficiency gains such as LED lighting and appliance standards.
1 min · 208 words
Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
Data for Progress replicated 1995 DDB Needham survey questions with 1,098 U.S. adults and found double-digit declines in participation in many everyday social activities since 1995, with a few gains such as internet use, home video games and exercise classes, plus caveats about comparing different survey methods.
3 min · 725 words