Microsoft has confirmed that it will retire the Database Compare tool in Microsoft Access, marking the end of a long-standing utility used by developers and IT professionals. The tool allowed users to ...

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed ...

Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...

A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have profiled his victims through NHS database queries that were unaudited. Paul Lipscombe, from Rothley, Leicestershire, who was 51 at the time ...

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...

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Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...

For much of the last year, staffers who were initially part of the Department of Government Efficiency effort improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data on millions of Americans. The Trump ...

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was ordered to perform community service rather than being prosecuted for using agency databases to search for information on her husband and his ...