Discord suffers data breach impacting at least 70,000 users
In Brief Posted: 2:41 PM PDT · October 9, 2025 Image Credits:Discord/Eric Szwanek Amanda Silberling Discord suffers data breach impacting…
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‘Dozens’ of organizations had data stolen in Oracle-linked hacks
Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from “dozens of organizations,” one…
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
AlignmentA small number of samples can poison LLMs of any sizeOct 9, 2025Read the paperIn a joint study with the…
California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
Image: Denny Muller via UnsplashSuzanne SmalleyOctober 8th, 2025California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing…
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…
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…