Data

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

Column But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends?

Storage29 Jan 2025 | 104

Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration

Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory

Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 10

Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

Class act: Cloud biz only serves 60M-plus folks globally, no biggie

Cyber-crime09 Jan 2025 | 23

The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance ... nothing to do with a free storage loophole

Storage07 Jan 2025 | 36

One third of adults can't delete device data

Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a drawer, survey finds

Security24 Dec 2024 | 188

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous

Column CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

Disaster Recovery Week20 Nov 2024 | 56

CISPE framework aids EU Data Act compliance, cloud switching

'It helps Euro organizations to avoid lock-in and design the cloud strategy they want'

PaaS + IaaS08 Nov 2024 |

RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims' data

Roadside assistance biz praised for deploying security monitoring software and reporting workers to cops

Security11 Oct 2024 | 21

BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham

We'd know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine

Science10 Oct 2024 | 60

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

Taxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall

Science01 Oct 2024 | 82

Germany’s CDU still struggling to restore data months after June cyberattack

Putting a spanner in work for plans of opposition party to launch a comeback during next year's elections

Cyber-crime16 Sep 2024 | 1

EU tries to pin down China on definition of 'important data'

Rules on cross border data transfers have European businesses scratching their heads

Legal29 Aug 2024 | 2

Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI

Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star

Software27 Aug 2024 | 14

Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies

Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale

Security14 Aug 2024 | 30

US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ

Legal29 Jul 2024 | 29

Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now

Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more

Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 10

Teradata takes plunge into lakehouse waters, but not everyone is convinced

We have not changed our minds, the industry has evolved, data warehouse stalwart claims

Databases23 May 2024 |

Big Tech, VC firms pump $1B into ML data darling Scale AI

Be careful not to over-inflate, you may burst your bubble

AI + ML21 May 2024 |

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death!

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 86

Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?

Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem

AI + ML09 May 2024 | 64

Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push

Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives

Public Sector02 May 2024 | 18

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers

Personal Tech29 Apr 2024 |

NASA's Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix

Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates

Science27 Apr 2024 | 55

FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price

Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers

Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 18

Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization

CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon

Applications09 Apr 2024 |

Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data

'Problematic' carriers can look forward to scrutiny, fines, and new rules

Databases22 Mar 2024 | 10

Congress votes unanimously to ban brokers selling American data to enemies

At least we can all agree on something

Security21 Mar 2024 | 19

Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills

Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline

Public Sector13 Mar 2024 | 13

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

Euro folk have until December to put house in order

Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29

FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data

But beware – Gparted Live hasn't been updated yet

OSes28 Feb 2024 | 45

Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data

A name that's commonly shouted by pirates might be a clue, me hearties!

Security23 Feb 2024 | 18

Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset

Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library

Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38

Japan's second-ranked mobile telco to buy convenience store chain from Mitsubishi

KDDI wants to snack on data about who buys what at which of Lawson's 14,600 stores

Offbeat08 Feb 2024 | 5

Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode data slurp disclaimer in early browser build

After settling privacy lawsuit now admits you're observable even when trying for anonymity

Software17 Jan 2024 | 4

Manchester's finest drowning in paperwork as Freedom of Information requests pile up

Updated Enforcement notice issued months after data regulator schooled police force

Security20 Dec 2023 | 30

Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir

Updated Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead

Databases01 Dec 2023 | 10

Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts

Databases22 Nov 2023 | 35

When it comes to personal data, we're on a highway to hell

Kettle Register journos tackle cars harvesting info, Meta and YouTube being taken to task over privacy, and more

Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 16

Introducing the tech that keeps the lights on

Opinion Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT – this superhero is ready to make a real difference

Security13 Nov 2023 | 21

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit

Software31 Oct 2023 | 34

Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools

A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim

AI + ML23 Oct 2023 |

Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe

Regulation complements EU's Digital Markets Act to cover more services

Security06 Oct 2023 | 6

UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement

So much for sovereignty then

Databases22 Sep 2023 | 51

If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea

DataGrail Summit Alex Stamos: 'We don't really know what's gonna go wrong with AI yet'

AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 33

CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit

Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project

Databases18 Sep 2023 | 4

Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization'

Everybody chill, we're still in the cart

Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak

Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products

Bootnotes23 Aug 2023 | 55

Vietnam admits it has just ten percent of the infosec pros it needs

Which is a problem, because local orgs are leaking data and shadowy traders are cashing in

Security17 Aug 2023 | 4

Watchdog vows crackdown on 'harmful' world of surveillance-by-data-broker

Analysis Promise of action excites some, others wish America had Cali-style Delete Act for personal info

Personal Tech15 Aug 2023 | 2

Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online

Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak

Security14 Aug 2023 | 87

Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century

Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility

Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently

Software10 Jul 2023 | 70

Australia's 'great example of government using technology' found to be 'crude and cruel'. And literally lethal to citizens

Report on 'Robodebt' scheme calls for major reforms, plus review of Feds' automation, data-sharing

Software07 Jul 2023 | 46

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

UK officials argue NHS patient details will only be available locally

PaaS + IaaS23 Jun 2023 | 30

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

Data shows there's still some way to go toward pay and hiring equity

On-Prem23 Jun 2023 | 80

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?

SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22