OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to…
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Social Cooling
LIKE OIL LEADS TO GLOBAL WARMING… DATA LEADS TO SOCIAL COOLING If you feel you are being watched, you change…
Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases
A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion…
UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage
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The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting…
New project makes Wikipedia data more accessible to AI
On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models….
Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks
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The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel
Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million (about $21…
Oura CEO talks potential IPO and ‘nonnegotiable’ data privacy
In Brief Posted: 3:01 PM PDT · September 28, 2025 Image Credits:Brian Heater Anthony Ha Oura CEO talks potential IPO…
Small Data
Small Data Small data appears to be a very exciting movement that is moving the overton window away from Big…
Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found online
A data spill from an unsecured cloud server has exposed hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents in India,…
A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types
Been quiet around here! I’ve been putting almost all of my writing time into Logic for Programmers and my whole…
Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption
Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its…
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the…
Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?
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Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data
Few things generate as much data as simply observing the Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very…
The Beginner’s Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Computer Science > Cryptography and Security arXiv:2503.05136 (cs) [Submitted on 7 Mar 2025 (v1), last revised 8 Sep 2025 (this…
Apple: SSH and FileVault
apple_ssh_and_filevault(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual apple_ssh_and_filevault(7) NAME apple_ssh_and_filevault — SSH and FileVault DESCRIPTION When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is…
Andrew Yang took inspiration from Mark Cuban for his budget cell carrier Noble Mobile
Former U.S. presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang is starting a new mobile virtual network operator — a company that…
A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyThe Department of Homeland Security’s mandate to carry out domestic surveillance has been a…