It's World Backup Day, and I saved the internet's most important parts on a portable SSD. Here's why you should, too.

We take the internet and its wealth of information for granted. What happens if it ever goes down for an extended period of ...
Sports Illustrated

Dallas Cowboys Add New QB During NFL Free Agency, Create Intrigue Among Backup QBs

The Dallas Cowboys are adding to their quarterback room during the start of the free agency period this offseason. Per reports from ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Cowboys have agreed to a one-year deal ...
People

Kristi Noem Insists ICE Isn't Creating a Database of Protesters Before Congressman Shows Her Video of Agent Who Said Otherwise

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 ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...
Sports Illustrated

Toronto Raptors Waive Backup Center to Create Open Roster Spot for Training Camp

The Toronto Raptors have waived centre Colin Castleton, the team announced Monday afternoon, opening up a roster spot ahead of training camp. Castleton, 25, was on a non-guaranteed deal and appeared ...
Futurism

AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

A tech entrepreneur named Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI “vibe coding” tool called Replit to make an app. But the “vibes” turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key ...
Nextgov

Democrats press Palantir about reported creation of IRS ‘mega-database’

The possible creation of a shareable, governmentwide database of Americans’ personal information would be a “surveillance nightmare,” 10 House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to the tech ...
TheServerSide

How to create a database schema in MySQL

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is ...
New Republic

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American

The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it. The New York Times reports that President Trump has enlisted the firm, ...
TheServerSide

The right MySQL persistence.xml example file for JPA 3 and Hibernate 6

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As developers migrate their old Java Persistence API applications to JPA 3, their progress is ...
Interesting Engineering

Creating a database from scratch: Part 2 – MySQL

MySQL is one of the world’s most widely used database management systems. It is easy to install and use and is usually free. Here’s how to use it. In our previous post, we took you through the basic ...
Wired

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented ...