Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

VectDB is a self-contained, local-first vector database that enables semantic search across your document collections. It combines the reliability of SQLite with the power of modern embedding models, ...

We often hear that “Who remembers the one who comes second?” The term ‘secondary’ is often associated with something less important, isn’t it? But today I tell you the importance of secondary in today ...

In today’s data-driven world, databases form the backbone of modern applications—from mobile apps to enterprise systems. Understanding the different types of databases and their applications is ...

In a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

Wrapping up a multi-week series on Crafting Data Personas. What are they, why are they important, and how to get started. Continuing from last week, we’re diving right into examples of personas. I ...

Databases publish data. This is undoubtedly the case for scientific and statistical databases, which have largely replaced traditional reference works. Database and Web technologies have led to an ...