Data

Get paid like a prime minister to tame Home Office IT chaos

Department dangles £160K salary for CDIO to wrangle legacy systems, failed projects, and £1.8B budget

CxO10 Sep 2025 | 43

HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else

After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in

Public Sector05 Sep 2025 | 3

I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data

Legal13 Aug 2025 | 137

The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data

DEF CON It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC

Security10 Aug 2025 | 22

When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead

Opinion If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu

Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2025 | 41

NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul

Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics

Databases23 Jul 2025 | 8

Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy

Comment There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia

Offbeat04 Jul 2025 | 19

So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller

Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart

Offbeat27 Jun 2025 | 36

Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud

Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery

Science30 May 2025 | 23

Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome

Obituary The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered

Offbeat24 May 2025 | 11

America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown

Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities

Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 10

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends

CSO08 May 2025 | 33

Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell

Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in

Virtualization07 May 2025 |

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50

Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

LLM query caching also lands soon

Databases10 Apr 2025 | 6

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups

Personal Tech24 Mar 2025 | 39

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics

Databases21 Feb 2025 | 24

Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU

DevOps team did the dirty on a database

Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7

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 | 77

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 | 87

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 | 17

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