Abstract: Distributed database systems offer scalability and fault tolerance by replicating databases across geographically dispersed nodes. This redundancy aims to ensure data availability even ...

Happy Presidents’ Day. The president’s phone has no apps, his car has a fridge full of blood, and someone once sent the nuclear launch codes to the dry cleaners. ⚡ TL;DR (THE SHORT VERSION) The ...

Under the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation agenda, federal immigration agents have been granted an arsenal of surveillance tools to deploy against migrants and citizens. Immigration and ...

Early last week, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau is investigating the use of the encrypted Signal messaging platform by "ICE Watch" activists to track and block federal immigration ...

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and ...

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...

For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows. That stability eroded ...

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever. At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux ...

A decorated Canadian police sergeant with more than two decades of experience on the force pleaded guilty to using the law enforcement database to pursue intimate relationships with around 30 women, ...

A former Regina police officer has pleaded guilty to using police databases to pursue intimate and personal relationships with women. Robert Eric Semenchuck entered the plea in Regina Provincial Court ...