Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized ...

In 2016, a mobile game transformed parks, streets, and ordinary local spots into a kind of playground for millions of people. Players would head outdoors with their phones, wandering through various ...

A Macon County judge ruled last month that evidence found at the scene of a decades-old murder that sent three family members to prison should go in a state and national DNA database search. Leanne ...

Under the spotlight during a House Judiciary hearing, the DHS secretary denied claims that her department is building a database of anti-ICE protesters Joe Raedle/Getty Kristi Noem denied that the ...

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Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...

Devart, a leading developer of database management software, is offering dbForge 2025.3, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools—delivering expanded connectivity, ...

MongoDB surpassed third-quarter expectations and lifted its forecast as it benefits from AI and its Atlas platform gains popularity. CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai said the company is approaching a "once in ...

France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases. By ...

Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn't rely on rows and columns like a traditional ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...