Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) is warning 1,955,385 impacted individuals in the United States that the company suffered a data breach after discovering unauthorized access to specific systems in its network. [...] | Continue reading
When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is an accurate reflection of all that’s out there. Certainly, what we observe to be out there really is present, but there’s always the possibility that there’s far more out there that’s un … | Continue reading
These annecdotes do not reflect the data . From (remain leaning) UK in A Changing Europe https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UKICE-Trade-Tracker-Q1-24.pdf UK trade with the EU, as a per cent of total trade in volume terms in Q3 2023, was at its highest levels since Q … | Continue reading
FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless corporations that control our every move through a network of proprietary data centers and deep-sea cables … | Continue reading
Zed Decoded: Rope & SumTree Text editors like Zed need in-memory data structures that are optimized for handling large strings where text can be inserted or deleted at any point without needing to copy the whole string. Ropes are a classic, widely used data structure for this. Ze … | Continue reading
I use Tarnsap to back up my data and I like it a lot, but it gets fairly expensive once you accumulate a lot of backups.At some point, I found prunef and started using it to prune my backups. It's a backup tool-agnostic utility that takes an unsorted list of backup filenames with … | Continue reading
The implications of recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have spurred heated debate globally. The hype, reality, ethics and devouring impact of algorithms in our lives with digital transformation is hard to ignore. Our data is being collected, harvested, shared and pro … | Continue reading
William Deringer studies “very old things and very technical things” — that have never been more relevant. | Continue reading
A paper in Frontiers attempted modelling the optimization of world-class 400 m and 1,500 m running performances using high-resolution data. “In the present study, rather than using statistical analyses of 100-m split times or big data, we choose to analyze a select sample of Worl … | Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). The blistering late-afternoon wind ripped across Camp Taji, a … | Continue reading
Learning how to measure is an important science skill. Measuring is used in science data collection. Measuring is also a… The post Learning How to Measure: Preschool Activity appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
A new blood test could determine whether someone will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before structural damage is picked up by an X-ray. | Continue reading
If you’re auditioning for your job every day, and you’re auditioning against every other brilliant employee there, and you know that at the end of the year, 6% of you are going to get cut no matter what, and at the same time, you have access to unrivaled data on partners, sellers … | Continue reading
Jakarta Data, multimodal LLMs, deprecating Dates in Hibernate, vector API, and Agile as a silver bullet (or not). | Continue reading
by Lee Zurik, Samantha Sunne and Dannah Sauer, WVUE-TV, data analysis by Joel Jacobs, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WVUE-TV. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories l … | Continue reading
Mutative processes data with better performance than both Immer and native reducers. Let's compare these data handling options in React. The post Comparing React state tools: Mutative vs. Immer vs. reducers appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies. | Continue reading
It is no surprise that meetings are getting larger, but what is surprising is that they have increased 25% from an average of 116 attendees to 145, according to newly released data from Knowland and Amadeus. -Andrea Doyle | Continue reading
Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a data security incident that may impact 13.4 million people in the United States. [...] | Continue reading
This tutorial explains how to scrape website content using Beautiful Soup and Selenium in Python, allowing you to gather data for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and improving their accuracy. Beautiful Soup is used for extracting data from static pages, while Selenium is … | Continue reading
Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents This story is from April 2022 but I realize now I never linked to it. Yandex Food, a popular food delivery service in Russia, suffered a major data leak. The data included an order history with names, addresses and phone numbers … | Continue reading
Everyone loves a public good, and one of the classic examples is clean air. When I breathe in clean air, no one else gets any less of it, and you can’t exclude people from enjoying it. But how do we know whether the air we’re breathing is clean? And is that information a public g … | Continue reading
Bboxx is a data-driven super platform that is working to help transform lives by unlocking potential through connecting consumers and deploying innovative products across Africa. Following its successful acquisition of solar energy frontrunner PEG Africa in 2022, Bboxx is now pos … | Continue reading
We ran a number of benchmarks comparing Rama against the latest stable versions of MongoDB and Cassandra. The code for these benchmarks is available on Github. Rama’s indexes (called PStates) can reproduce any database’s data model since each PState is an arbitrary combination of … | Continue reading
Robert Lea at Space.com: NASA’s interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacec … | Continue reading
As any Pokémon fan knows, the series is all about data – lots and lots of data. So much data that entire websites and apps are dedicated to helping players keep track of it all. That’s a big design challenge for any app developer, which is why I was so glad to see it taken […] | Continue reading
Learn how Chronicle Services, a Java-based framework optimised for low-latency microservices, meets critical requirements by integrating HA, performance, and data persistence. The post The High Availability Features of Microservices using Chronicle Services appeared first on fooj … | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches. [...] | Continue reading
Utilities all over the country have proposed to build a slew of new natural gas-fired power plants in recent months, citing an anticipated surge in electricity demand from data centers, a boom in manufacturing, and the rise of electric vehicles. But on Thursday, the Environmental … | Continue reading
Snowflake Arctic Cookbook Today's big model release was Snowflake Arctic, an enormous 480B model with a 128×3.66B MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture. It's Apache 2 licensed and Snowflake state that "in addition, we are also open sourcing all of our data recipes and research in … | Continue reading
This is the first post in the series diving into the implementation details of the application backing the guide search of quarkus.io. Does your application need full-text search capabilities? Do you need to keep your application running and producing search results without any d … | Continue reading
Worldcoin, the project that hands out free cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data, is experiencing a shortage of the orbs that scan everyone’s eyeballs, according to a new report from Semafor. But Tools for Humanity, the startup behind Worldcoin, seems to think that’s a go … | Continue reading
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident. | Continue reading
Ming-Chi Kuo used to just provide supply chain data and he was remarkably reliable at that. Then he moved into more general punditry, and honestly it feels like things are off the rails enough that I find it hard to take his data seriously without looking into it further. The | Continue reading
With help from our coming AI overlords: Transducers and eduction in Clojure are ways to efficiently process and transform data, especially when working with large datasets. Here's a simple explanation: Transducers: Transducers are functions that can be composed together to create … | Continue reading
Cory Dransfeldt writing about Data ownership and agency: I control that data, it sits on infrastructure I manage, it’s in a format I understand and I get the responsibility (or fun — let’s go with that) of presenting it. I get agency and that agency is accompanied by the burden o … | Continue reading
At least 18 government websites in the U.K. and the U.S. send visitor information to multiple online advertising brokers, according… Continue reading Some UK and US government sites are ‘sharing data with ad brokers’ The post Some UK and US government sites are ‘sharing data with … | Continue reading
Bob's employer had a data-driven application which wasn't performing terribly well. They had some in-house database administrators, but their skills were more "keep things running," and less "do deep optimizations". The company opted to hire a contract DBA to come in, address the … | Continue reading
One of the two oldest, active spacecraft has a new lease on life, with NASA getting the 47-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe to send back engineering data for the first time since November 14. Until now, all the craft could return was gibberish. Continue Reading Category: Space … | Continue reading
OpenStreetMaps (OSM) is known for being an open source project that allows people to browse the world map and to plan routes. However it is more than that. Among others it provides a read-only API that allows users to query for very diverse map data: Overpass API ⚠️ This post lin … | Continue reading
"SWOT can fill the data gap for when places like this, and others around the world, become inundated." New NASA technology captures images of ancient lake reemergence from space: 'Developing one of the most detailed and comprehensive views of the planet' first appeared on The Coo … | Continue reading
Today my personal web site is being served sans-JavaScript in honor of JavaScript Naked Day. I implemented this on my web site using a global JS_ENABLED in my Eleventy configuration file (propagated to templates via Eleventy’s global data). This removed the elements in the outpu … | Continue reading
Simon Willison: AI for Data Journalism – an annotated version of a recent talk where Simon gave twelve (!) demos of using AI tools to process data – jam packed! | Continue reading
We [Bluesky] took a somewhat novel approach of giving every user their own SQLite database. By removing the Postgres dependency, we made it possible to run a ‘PDS in a box’ [Personal Data Server] without having to worry about managing a database. We didn’t have to worry about thi … | Continue reading
Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object in history, has resumed sending signal to the Earth after a gap of five months. On 14 November 2023, It had stopped sending readable science and engineering data to Earth following a glitch in onboard computers even though it was receiv … | Continue reading
Llama 3 landed on Thursday. I ended up updating a whole bunch of different plugins to work with it, described in Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM. I also wrote up the talk I gave at Stanford a few weeks ago: AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we c … | Continue reading
We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Coming up: A rare in-person session in LDN with IIB founder David McCandless (we do these once a year). A virtual workshop running on two half days and the regular full day session. Learn how to … | Continue reading
[Look at what we can do.] Back in February, I noted that after nearly 47 years, Voyager 1 may be dying. But Goonies NASA nerds never say die. After months of meticulous debugging work, we are once again receiving valid data from Voyager. On April 18, 2024, the team began sending … | Continue reading