The developers of Kodi, the widely used open-source media player app, have revealed a data breach of its user forum. What happened? The breach did not happen due to a vulnerability. Instead, an unknown attacker used the account of a legitimate but inactive member of the forum admin team to access the MyBB admin console on two occasions February 16 and 21, 2023. The attacker was able to create backups of databases, which they then … More →The post Kodi forum breach User data, encrypted passwords grabbed appeared first on Help Net Security.

I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you want to use a

Immigration lawyers have raised concerns about the use of DNA databases to help prove nationality.

App Store might suggest you a useful app from time to time, but you can’t rely on that to discover new apps. Places like Reddit communities or Product Hunt could also be very broad for what you are looking for. So a team of engineers at Basedash, a startup that helps companies connect their databases […]Dockhunt is a new way to discover Mac apps by looking at other people’s docks by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Researchers found 17 illicit marketplaces claiming to sell vaccine passports, and some appear to be valid entries in national databases

“24h Sunrise/Sunset” is an installation that displays a realtime sunset and sunrise somewhere happening in the world with the use of CCTV. Hardware Raspberry Pi 3B+, Arduino Nano Every , custom PCB, power supply’s, VFD displays, lasercut metal and LEDs. Software Python 3 & Firebase realtime databases Changelog of the installationv1. Release at St. Moritz with…

A saga through BoltDB source code to understand how mmap works in databases

Business is booming these days for graph databases--maybe it took COVID to show us how connected everything is--and that’s good news for Franz, which

Many container customers building applications use common software packages (e.g. operating systems, databases, and application components) that are publicly distributed as container images on Docker Hub. Docker, Inc. has announced that the Hub service will begin limiting the rate at which images are pulled under their anonymous and free plans. These limits will progressively take […]

Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants to make adding a database a simple API call, and today it announced $27 million in new funding. The round, which is technically an extension of the…

A data warehouse is an input to the Feature Store. A data warehouse is a single columnar database, while a feature store is implemented as two databases.

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Ragic is very much different than any other database builder or form builder products on the market. It's much faster to create databases

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said.

App Store might suggest you a useful app from time to time, but you can’t rely on that to discover new apps. Places like Reddit communities or Product Hunt could also be very broad for what you are looking for. So a team of engineers at Basedash, a startup that helps companies connect their databases […]Dockhunt is a new way to discover Mac apps by looking at other people’s docks by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

## About Writesonic [Writesonic](http//writesonic.com/) is an **AI-powered creativity platform** that generates marketing content so good you can’t believe it wasn’t written by a human. With a few lines of text, Writesonic will generate ads, blog posts, landing pages, product descriptions, and 40 other types of content. We are saving agencies, eCommerce brands, and marketing team's about 80% of the time and effort it would take them to do the job themselves. And we're decreasing their costs dramatically! Our customers love us, as evidenced by the 2000+ 5-star reviews on platforms like G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra. We are a seed-stage company, well funded by top investors like Y Combinator, HOF Capital, Broom Ventures, Amino Capital, etc., and are building a real business fueled by real revenue — not just venture capital. We're a small, creative, and hard-working team looking for people with a founder mindset to join us. ## About the role We are expanding the functionality of our application based on market requirements and customer feedback, and are also building integrations with platforms like Shopify, Wordpress, etc. So, we are looking for talented full stack engineers who can understand our domain, research the market, own the application and drive development from the ground up. This position says founding engineer. We really mean that. You'd build critical features from the ground up, and deliver 5x faster than you have at previous jobs. We're looking for someone who is serious about building, and who can wear many hats. Your day-to-day work will directly influence how customers and partners interact with our products. ## ?? **Who you are** - You have designed, built, and maintained production-grade web applications. People describe you as "extremely productive." - You have a strong grasp of engineering fundamentals. - You are excited about working on a small team and helping us set the long term vision for our engineering organization and product direction. - You have experience in areas such as databases, UX implementation, debugging, and full-stack performance measurement and optimization. - You're flexible, trustworthy, energetic, and a great communicator. - You care more about solving customers' problems and building a delightful experience than about using a particular technology to do it. - **Big bonus points** for AI, design and/or devops experience. ## ?? What you'll do - Take ownership of Writesonic's full-stack web platform, all the way to deploys, monitoring, debugging, and overall reliability. - Research the market and competition, and come up with new features or ways to improve the system. - Help design and implement core architecture. - Ship major features often, iterate on those features, and build out our core infrastructure. - Be exposed to every level of the company, working closely with the CEO to meet business goals and working off customer feedback. ### **Required Technical Skills and Qualifications** - **3+ years of experience in a software engineering role at a product-based company or startup.** - You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field from a reputed institute like IIT (Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur, Chennai, Roorkee), IIIT (hyderabad or Delhi), BITS Pilani. - Experience with building, deploying, and scaling production-level web applications. - Experience with the microservices architecture. - Experience in developing REST APIs to serve web clients, preferably using Python based web frameworks like FastAPI, Flask etc. - Experience building modern frontends using ReactJs/VueJs or similar. - Experience putting high-fidelity custom UI/UX designs into code using HTML/CSS/JS. - Experience with SQL-based relational databases. - Experience building public facing websites that work elegantly across commonly used browsers ### **? Bonus Points** - Proven experience with design, architecture, and UI / UX principles. ## Technology **Frontend** - NextJs/React with Redux - TypeScript - TailwindCSS **Backend** - Python (FastAPI) - PostgreSQL - Kubernetes for deployment and orchestration

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 spotted this story in today's New York Times. (Also re-published in the Seattle Times.) In early 2020 a team of U.S. and Chinese scientists "released critical data" on the speedy spread and lethality of the coronavirus, remembers Times, "cited in health warnings around the world... Within days, though, the researchers quietly withdrew the paper, which was replaced online by a message telling scientists not to cite it... "What is now clear is that the study was not removed because of faulty research. Instead, it was withdrawn at the direction of Chinese health officials amid a crackdown on science." It's not the only retraction. The Times also points out a paper published on March 9 of 2020 relying on patient samples from mid-December of 2019, which "added to evidence that the virus was spreading widely before the Chinese government took action." Two months later the journal that published an update that "said that the Wuhan samples were not collected in December after all, but weeks later, in January... After Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle tweeted about the discrepancy, the journal's editors posted a third version of the paper, adding yet another timeline. This revision says the samples were collected between Dec. 30 and Jan. 1." Beijing's stranglehold on information goes far deeper than even many pandemic researchers are aware of. Its censorship campaign has targeted international journals and scientific databases, shaking the foundations of shared scientific knowledge, a New York Times investigation found. Under pressure from their government, Chinese scientists have withheld data, withdrawn genetic sequences from public databases and altered crucial details in journal submissions. Western journal editors enabled those efforts by agreeing to those edits or withdrawing papers for murky reasons, a review by The Times of over a dozen retracted papers found. This scientific censorship has not universally succeeded The original version of the February 2020 paper, for example, can still be found online with some digging. But the campaign starved doctors and policymakers of critical information about the virus at the moment the world needed it most. It bred mistrust of science in Europe and the United States, as health officials cited papers from China that were then retracted. The crackdown continues to breed misinformation today and has hindered efforts to determine the origins of the virus. The article notes an international team's discovery last month of genetic sequence data collected in January of 2020 at Wuhan market, "withheld from foreign experts for three years — a delay that global health officials called 'inexcusable.'" The sequences showed that raccoon dogs, a fox-like animal, had deposited genetic signatures in the same place that genetic material from the virus was left, a finding consistent with a scenario in which the virus spread to people from illegally traded market animals... Soon after the group alerted Chinese researchers to their findings, the genetic sequences temporarily disappeared from a global database. "It's just pathetic that we're in this stage where we're having cloak-and-dagger conversations about deleted data," said Edward Holmes, a University of Sydney biologist who was part of the group that analyzed the sequences containing raccoon dog DNA. The Times cites retracted coronavirus papers flagged by Retraction Watch, which tracks withdrawn research. Amid tighting government censorship in 2020, Chinese researchers began asking journals to retract their work, the Times reports, and "a review of more than a dozen retracted papers from China shows a pattern of revising or suppressing research on early cases, conditions for medical workers and how widely the virus had spread — topics that could make the government look bad." Journals are typically slow to retract papers, even when they are shown to be fraudulent or unethical. But in China, the calculus is different, said Ivan Oransky, a founder of Retraction Watch. Journals that want to sell subscriptions in China or publish Chinese research often bend to the government's demands. "Scientific publishers have really gone out of their way to placate the censorship requests," he said... The journal retractions continued, and for unusual reasons. One group of authors noted that "our data is not perfect enough." Another warned that its paper "cannot be used as the basis for the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2." A third said its findings were "incomplete and not ready for publication." Several scientists promised in retraction notices to update their findings but never did. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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## What we're looking for Sutra is seeking a React Native developer who is truly a self-starter. You'll join the team and be a part of all major mobile architecture decisions. You're comfortable building new systems from the ground up during a period of hyper-growth. ## The Role - Help lead the design, architecture, and execution of our React Native stack - Advance our mobile architecture and stay one step ahead of growth - Take technical ownership of features and move the product forward - Partner closely with the product team to consistently move the needle - Present cross-team launches and updates at company-wide checkins ## The You - Ship. You like to get things done. - 3+ years experience as a problem solver - High level of expertise in React Native (React, Redux, Typescript) - Excellent communication skills - Proven record of shipping features on time - Organized, self-sufficient and a go-getter - Bonus experience in building and scaling NoSQL databases ## The Benefits - Weekly workouts with the team - Health/dental/vision coverage - Unlimited PTO / sick leave - Annual company retreat

The developers of Kodi, the widely used open-source media player app, have revealed a data breach of its user forum. What happened? The breach did not happen due to a vulnerability. Instead, an unknown attacker used the account of a legitimate but inactive member of the forum admin team to access the MyBB admin console on two occasions February 16 and 21, 2023. The attacker was able to create backups of databases, which they then … More →The post Kodi forum breach User data, encrypted passwords grabbed appeared first on Help Net Security.

The developers of Kodi, the widely used open-source media player app, have revealed a data breach of its user forum. What happened? The breach did not happen due to a vulnerability. Instead, an unknown attacker used the account of a legitimate but inactive member of the forum admin team to access the MyBB admin console on two occasions February 16 and 21, 2023. The attacker was able to create backups of databases, which they then … More →The post Kodi forum breach User data, encrypted passwords grabbed appeared first on Help Net Security.

When designing and building applications, often we find ourselves needing various third-party services, such as databases, push notifications, hosting, authentication, and many other complex features. Firebase, built by Google, is an all-in-one application development platform that provides all this functionality and more, giving us an easy-to-use platform to develop and scale our applications.

Sherman Ye founded VESoft in 2018 when he saw a growing demand for graph databases in China. Its predecessors like Neo4j and TigerGraph had already been growing aggressively in the West for a few years, while China was just getting to know the technology that leverages graph structures to store dat…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned the Trump administration over planned raids of migrant communities and said she had ordered police to cut federal agents’ access to databases related to immigration enforcement activities.

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr, a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service. …

A saga through BoltDB source code to understand how mmap works in databases

SALT LAKE CITY — Genetic tests have become increasingly popular in recent years, and a Utah bill would expand the use of DNA testing for investigations of violent crimes. SB156, better known as the “Sherry Black bill,” would create requirements for law enforcement for searching DNA testing databases based on voluntary genetic testing. The bill […]

Key information systems will be lost even if a security deal is struck before 31 December, National Crime Agency says

Actiondesk is a new spreadsheet solution for the software-as-a-service era. It connects with the databases, CRMs and SaaS tools that you already use so that you can build dashboards and generate reports without having to manually import data. The startup raised a $3.9 million seed round from Tiger …

Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of jSonar, which provides security and compliance to databases on-premise or in the cloud, will help…

BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged land.

Ongoing attack hitting unsecured data leaves the word "meow" as its calling card.

Twenty-four professors from the Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) have been included in a database among the world’s leading researchers. The academics are included in recently updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators which include the world’s leading researchers, both throughout their academic careers and exclusively for the year...

Hackers, particularly state-sponsored and organized cybercriminals, wreak havoc worldwide. However, their aliases, such as Fancy Bear and Refined Kitten, often undermine the seriousness of their actions, Wired argues. Microsoft's cybersecurity division recently revamped its naming taxonomy for the hundreds of hacker groups it tracks, adopting two-word names with a weather-based term to indicate the hackers' suspected country and affiliation. For instance, the Iranian group Phosphorous is now dubbed Mint Sandstorm, while Russia's Iridium (Sandworm) goes by Seashell Blizzard. Critics, like Rob Lee, founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Dragos, argue that the whimsical new names could hinder the perception of the profession and be counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis. Furthermore, the new naming scheme forces analysts and customers to revise their databases and products to align with Microsoft's terminology. The revised system also risks cementing educated guesses about hackers' national loyalties without clarity on the confidence of those assessments. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The developers of Kodi, the widely used open-source media player app, have revealed a data breach of its user forum. What happened? The breach did not happen due to a vulnerability. Instead, an unknown attacker used the account of a legitimate but inactive member of the forum admin team to access the MyBB admin console on two occasions February 16 and 21, 2023. The attacker was able to create backups of databases, which they then … More →The post Kodi forum breach User data, encrypted passwords grabbed appeared first on Help Net Security.

Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Azure cloud platform on Saturday urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3,300 it notified this week.

App Store might suggest you a useful app from time to time, but you can’t rely on that to discover new apps. Places like Reddit communities or Product Hunt could also be very broad for what you are looking for. So a team of engineers at Basedash, a startup that helps companies connect their databases […]Dockhunt is a new way to discover Mac apps by looking at other people’s docks by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Learn libraries and techniques to use Haskell for a variety of real world tasks, like connecting to databases, building web servers, and testing.

Russian scientists will not participate in international conferences this year, and institutions will not emphasize publication in international journals that are indexed in databases that generate scientific metrics.

Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service. The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming projec…

In 2019, to meet GitHub's growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.

Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher.

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 spotted this story in today's New York Times. (Also re-published in the Seattle Times.) In early 2020 a team of U.S. and Chinese scientists "released critical data" on the speedy spread and lethality of the coronavirus, remembers Times, "cited in health warnings around the world... Within days, though, the researchers quietly withdrew the paper, which was replaced online by a message telling scientists not to cite it... "What is now clear is that the study was not removed because of faulty research. Instead, it was withdrawn at the direction of Chinese health officials amid a crackdown on science." It's not the only retraction. The Times also points out a paper published on March 9 of 2020 relying on patient samples from mid-December of 2019, which "added to evidence that the virus was spreading widely before the Chinese government took action." Two months later the journal that published an update that "said that the Wuhan samples were not collected in December after all, but weeks later, in January... After Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle tweeted about the discrepancy, the journal's editors posted a third version of the paper, adding yet another timeline. This revision says the samples were collected between Dec. 30 and Jan. 1." Beijing's stranglehold on information goes far deeper than even many pandemic researchers are aware of. Its censorship campaign has targeted international journals and scientific databases, shaking the foundations of shared scientific knowledge, a New York Times investigation found. Under pressure from their government, Chinese scientists have withheld data, withdrawn genetic sequences from public databases and altered crucial details in journal submissions. Western journal editors enabled those efforts by agreeing to those edits or withdrawing papers for murky reasons, a review by The Times of over a dozen retracted papers found. This scientific censorship has not universally succeeded The original version of the February 2020 paper, for example, can still be found online with some digging. But the campaign starved doctors and policymakers of critical information about the virus at the moment the world needed it most. It bred mistrust of science in Europe and the United States, as health officials cited papers from China that were then retracted. The crackdown continues to breed misinformation today and has hindered efforts to determine the origins of the virus. The article notes an international team's discovery last month of genetic sequence data collected in January of 2020 at Wuhan market, "withheld from foreign experts for three years — a delay that global health officials called 'inexcusable.'" The sequences showed that raccoon dogs, a fox-like animal, had deposited genetic signatures in the same place that genetic material from the virus was left, a finding consistent with a scenario in which the virus spread to people from illegally traded market animals... Soon after the group alerted Chinese researchers to their findings, the genetic sequences temporarily disappeared from a global database. "It's just pathetic that we're in this stage where we're having cloak-and-dagger conversations about deleted data," said Edward Holmes, a University of Sydney biologist who was part of the group that analyzed the sequences containing raccoon dog DNA. The Times cites retracted coronavirus papers flagged by Retraction Watch, which tracks withdrawn research. Amid tighting government censorship in 2020, Chinese researchers began asking journals to retract their work, the Times reports, and "a review of more than a dozen retracted papers from China shows a pattern of revising or suppressing research on early cases, conditions for medical workers and how widely the virus had spread — topics that could make the government look bad." Journals are typically slow to retract papers, even when they are shown to be fraudulent or unethical. But in China, the calculus is different, said Ivan Oransky, a founder of Retraction Watch. Journals that want to sell subscriptions in China or publish Chinese research often bend to the government's demands. "Scientific publishers have really gone out of their way to placate the censorship requests," he said... The journal retractions continued, and for unusual reasons. One group of authors noted that "our data is not perfect enough." Another warned that its paper "cannot be used as the basis for the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2." A third said its findings were "incomplete and not ready for publication." Several scientists promised in retraction notices to update their findings but never did. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

This blog takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of time series databases—and why Honeycomb couldn't be limited to a TSDB implementation.

In recent years, neural networks have shown impressive performance gains on long-standing AI problems, and in particular, answering queries from natural language text. These advances raise the question of whether they can be extended to a point where we can relax the fundamental assumption of database management, namely, that our data is represented as fields of a pre-defined schema. This paper presents a first step in answering that question. We describe NeuralDB, a database system with no pre-defined schema, in which updates and queries are given in natural language. We develop query processing techniques that build on the primitives offered by the state of the art Natural Language Processing methods. We begin by demonstrating that at the core, recent NLP transformers, powered by pre-trained language models, can answer select-project-join queries if they are given the exact set of relevant facts. However, they cannot scale to non-trivial databases and cannot perform aggregation queries. Based on these findings, we describe a NeuralDB architecture that runs multiple Neural SPJ operators in parallel, each with a set of database sentences that can produce one of the answers to the query. The result of these operators is fed to an aggregation operator if needed. We describe an algorithm that learns how to create the appropriate sets of facts to be fed into each of the Neural SPJ operators. Importantly, this algorithm can be trained by the Neural SPJ operator itself. We experimentally validate the accuracy of NeuralDB and its components, showing that we can answer queries over thousands of sentences with very high accuracy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog.

If you can’t stop dreaming about NoSQL databases, Google’s Cloud Next conference is the closest thing to heaven that you’ll find today. At 9 AM PT, 12 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, some of the brightest minds in cloud computing are going to introduce the upcoming features of Google Cloud. Along with Amazon Web …

Efforts to diversity skin image databases include generating synthetic images of darker skin using AI. But trying to fix equity issues through fake images has potential issues.