Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Another day, another data breach; this time, Victor Gevers, a Dutch security researcher from GDI Foundation has discovered a publically exposed database containing a massive trove of highly sensitive data of millions of Chinese women. Accordin… Continue reading “BreedReady” database of 1.8m Chinese women surfaced online
Long-time Slashdot reader retroworks shared this EFF article:
Although relatively little news gets out of Xinjiang to the rest of the world, we’ve known for over a year that China has been testing facial-recognition tracking and alert systems across Xi… Continue reading Massive Database Leak Exposes China’s ‘Digital Surveillance State’
Redis Labs, fresh off its latest funding round, today announced a change to how it licenses its Redis Modules. This may not sound like a big deal, but in the world of open-source projects, licensing is currently a big issue. That’s because organizations like Redis, MongoDB, Confluent and others have recently introduced new licenses that […] Continue reading Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
Redis Labs, a startup that offers commercial services around the Redis in-memory data store (and which counts Redis creator and lead developer Salvatore Sanfilippo among its employees), today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series E funding round led by private equity firm Francisco Partners. The firm didn’t participate in any of Redis […] Continue reading Redis Labs raises a $60M Series E round
Google today announced that Cloud Firestore, its serverless NoSQL document database for mobile, web and IoT apps, is now generally available. In addition, Google is also introducing a few new features and bringing the service to ten new regions. With this launch, Google is giving developers the option to run their databases in a single […] Continue reading Google’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL database hits general availability
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a fully-managed document database service, building the Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to support existing MongoDB workloads. The cloud giant said d… Continue reading AWS Launches Fully-Managed Document Database Service
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy said in an interview on Wednesday that almost all of Amazon’s databases that ran on Oracle will be on an Amazon database instead. “We’re virtually done moving away from Oracle on the database side,” Jassy said. “And I… Continue reading Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief
AWS announced a new time series database today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. The new product called DynamoDB On-Demand is a fully managed database designed to track items over time, which can be particularly useful for Internet of Things scenarios. “With time series data each data point consists of a timestamp and one or […] Continue reading AWS launches new time series database
MongoDB is taking action against cloud giants who are taking its open-source code and offering a hosted commercial version of its database to their users without playing by the open-source rules. The company announced today that it has issued a new sof… Continue reading MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License
Vending machines used to be a pretty simple affair: you put some coins in, and food or drink that in all likelihood isn’t fit for human consumption comes out. But like everything else today, they are becoming increasingly complex Internet connected devices. Forget fishing around for pocket change; the Coke machine at the mall more often than not has a credit card terminal and a 30 inch touch screen display to better facilitate dispensing cans of chilled sugar water. Of course, increased complexity almost always goes hand in hand with increased vulnerability.
So when [Matteo Pisani] recently came across a …read more