DNA databases unite to create a fully open resource for transposable element research

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking

The accessibility tree decides whether an AI agent can read and act on your page. The 2026 data says the web is getting ...
Ars Technica

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time ...
Bleeping Computer

McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat

Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. The company assured that the breach ...
Nextgov

Appeals court removes limits on DOGE access to SSA data despite ‘alarming’ revelations

The Friday decision follows a January court filing in which the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency. A federal appeals court vacated a ...
KING5

UW researchers: Federal immigration enforcement still accessing Washington driver data

SEATTLE — Researchers at the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights say federal immigration agents are continuing to access Washington state driver and vehicle data to make arrests, ...
TechCrunch

TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a US data center

As snowstorms pelted the U.S. on Sunday, TikTok users reported widespread issues with the app, like problems loading comments or unexpected behavior from the For You page algorithm. For some users, ...
Mercury News

San Jose latest city to face questions whether federal authorities are accessing police license plate camera data

San Jose police allowed other California police agencies as recently as last June to search data from its vast network of automatic license plate reading cameras on apparent behalf of federal ...
Aclu.org

DHS is Circumventing Constitution by Buying Data It Would Normally Need a Warrant to Access

The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...
Business Wire

NTT Research Announces Quantum-Secure Zero Trust Data Security Suite

NTT Research’s new Zero Trust Data Security (ZTDS) Suite, powered by attribute-based encryption (ABE), provides protection at the data level, addressing key challenges associated with Zero Trust ...
Reuters

JPMorgan secures deals with fintech aggregators over fees to access data, CNBC reports

Nov 14 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), opens new tab has secured deals that will ensure it receives payments from fintech companies for access to its customer bank account data by third-party apps ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...