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Microsoft launches distributed Postgre SQL to rival AWS
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (104+ words) : Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says...
The DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping
3+ week, 4+ day ago (97+ words) : Change is glacial, but the direction is clear...
Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for Postgre SQL work
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (529+ words) Google is encouraging its database developers to lean "heavily" on AI coding tools as it ramps up contributions to open source projects such as Postgre SQL. Earlier this year, Google announced a raft of new contributions to Postgre SQL, the…...
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (427+ words) This law makes it compulsory for any site that the state says needs age verification " porn, basically " to impose those checks on anyone physically in Utah whether or not they are using any VPN. Those would be the same VPNs…...
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (560+ words) WHO, ME? Welcome to Monday morning, the time of week when The Register always asks "Who, Me?" because that's the title of our reader-contributed column in which you confess to having made a mess, and found a way to egress…...
Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its Git Hub account
10+ min ago (492+ words) Observability outfit Grafana Labs has revealed that an attacker accessed its Git Hub repository and stole its codebase. In social media posts the company blamed the situation on an "unauthorized party" who was somehow able to obtain a token that…...
Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (602+ words) Interview: Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away...
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable
6+ hour, 36+ min ago (62+ words) Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating "unnecessary pain and pointless work...
Samsung's weather app sparks storm of controversy by handing territory to North Korea
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (668+ words) Samsung found itself facing down controversy in South Korea last week, when the weather app pre-installed on many of its devices incorrectly labelled an island territory named Dokdo as part of North Korea. Dokdo is a group of volcanic islets…...
Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (1652+ words) KETTLE Hopefully'you'haven't had reason to notice yet, but there's a rising problem with AI services on Google Cloud, AWS, and other platforms sticking their customers with bills in the tens of thousands of dollars.' This week's episode of the Kettle…...