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Expanding scientific access to biodiversity data

The Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping ...
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Bridging Digital Barriers: Israeli Access in Restricted Nations

Digital access is a strategic requirement in overseas operations. Israeli organizations are now expected to embed resilience ...
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Security agencies to gain access to NIA database under new bill - CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Wisdom Yayra Koku Deku, has said the proposed amendment to the NIA Act 707 will redefine the operational structure of the ...
TechCrunch26d

Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Databricks is in the process of closing a fresh round at a $100 billion valuation, sources confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with ...
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Firebird database: DoS vulnerabilities and potentially unauthorized access

The developers have closed two security gaps in the relational SQL database Firebird. These enabled attackers to paralyze servers with manipulated queries – or, under certain circumstances, even gain ...
The Conversation1mon

How are Australians adapting to climate change? Here are 729 ways

Tia Brullo receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program Climate Systems Hub Project Number CS2.1 Elissa Waters receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program ...
MIT Technology Review1mon

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
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ICE granted unprecedented access to Medicaid database to help identify and deport illegal immigrants

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was recently granted access to Medicaid enrollee data, aiding officers tasked with fulfilling the Trump administration's objective of tracking down and ...
NBC News1mon

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees' personal information

The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the ...
NPR2mon

DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers

A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in ...
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Judge restricts DOGE access to federal databases, finding 'breach of law and trust'

A federal judge has restricted the Department of Government Efficiency's access to federal databases, citing a "breach of law and trust." Led by the American Federation of Government Employees, a ...