Last week, social and news media was abuzz with allegations that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers had access to a shadowy database full of information on protestors. During a ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

California's DROP program is now active, giving Californians the ability to stop data brokers from selling their personal information. DROP, which stands for Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, is a ...

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of ...

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action. For decades, the database has been the silent partner ...

Ever wondered what “artificial vanilla” actually means? In this episode, we take vanilla extract to chemistry class, chase down the molecule that smells like comfort and maybe discover too much about ...

The NIH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will build a data platform to conduct research across claims data, electronic health record (EHR) data, and consumer wearables, HHS ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

However, recovering waste heat from data centers could help tackle the energy crisis. The question is whether industry can move fast enough to capture it at scale. Across Europe and beyond, utilities, ...

If you catch Vanilla Ice, born Robert Matthew Van Winkle, at home in Florida on a sunny afternoon, don’t be surprised if he’s “just sitting out here by the pool, marinating,” blasting K-pop at full ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...