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Oracle wants to make it easier for customers to power their businesses with its database. The company unveiled a new 18c version of its marquee database software today that uses machine learning to help protect customer data and automate the management of their information. The software will use machine learning on top of a wealth […]
Larry Ellison didn’t wait long after coming onto the Oracle OpenWorld conference stage in San Francisco on Sunday before announcing a new set of cybersecurity-oriented products. In his first keynote of Oracle’s annual use conference, the executive chairman announced a new autonomous database that can patch itself from cybersecurity flaws without having to go offline. The automated […]
(Reuters) — China said on Wednesday it will create a national data repository for information on cyber attacks and require telecom firms, internet companies and domain name providers to report threats to it. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said companies and telcos as well as government bodies must share information on incidents […]
The United Nations’ aviation agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), plans to support a single worldwide drone registry. This singular ledger would be easier for law enforcement to sift through than each country’s individual UAV ledger. That might irk US hobbyists, who fought and defeated the FAA in court when it passed a law […]
(credit: Flickr user leolintang) SEATTLE—In its continued efforts to make Azure a platform that appeals to the widest range of developers possible, Microsoft announced a range of new features at Build, its annual developer conference. Many of the features shown today had a data theme to them. The most novel feature was the release of Cosmos […]
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released this year’s map of popular dog names based on legally required registrations. It’s an annual tradition to encourage people to register their dogs. But it also has an amazing way of solving debates. Debates like whether or not Bernie would’ve won. He would have, […]
A national database listing the effects of so-called ‘zombie’ drugs has been created for doctors to swiftly detect any new kinds of synthetic narcotics arriving on the market. The Report Illicit Drug Reaction (RIDR) website, which will feature urgent clinical reports, will allow doctors to keep constantly up to date with new psychoactive substances (NPS) […]
Israeli lawmakers have passed a biometric database law to digitally encode personal information of all Israeli residents, including high-quality photos for face recognition and fingerprints, but with certain provisions. Passed by a vote of 39 to 29 following a fierce debate in the Knesset, the biometric bill, promoted by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, was adopted […]
About a decade ago, a handful of Google’s most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic. The post Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
