Hosted on MSN

Toronto cop charged with accessing private police databases without authorization

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed ...
Computer Weekly

Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases

A former NHS analyst and convicted child rapist could have profiled his victims through NHS database queries that were unaudited. Paul Lipscombe, from Rothley, Leicestershire, who was 51 at the time ...
TechCrunch

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...
Yahoo

16ft Python Glides Through Flooded Bali Streets as Tourists Watch (Video)

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the rainy season in Bali, and this time around, things have been especially heavy. Torrential downpours have caused flooding ...
Business Wire

Energy Corps Joins Global Effort for Energy Access Through Clean Cooking Accelerator Initiative

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Corps today announced its role as a founding contributor to the Clean Cooking Accelerator Initiative, a new collaboration with the Clean Cooking Alliance, The ...
marktechpost

Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
New York Post

Stunned woman wakes up to find 8-foot python on her chest after it snuck in through bedroom window: ‘Baby, don’t move’

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom window of her home in Australia. Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled ...
Orlando Sentinel

Lake sheriff employee avoids prosecution on charges of illegally accessing database

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was ordered to perform community service rather than being prosecuted for using agency databases to search for information on her husband and his ...
Barron's

China’s Tencent Is Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips Through the Cloud

Tencent Holdings has secured access to high-end Nvidia artificial-intelligence chips that remain restricted to Chinese buyers even after President Donald Trump’s recent semiconductor agreement with ...
Washington Examiner

Biden administration did not vet or run Lakanwal’s name through databases in 2021

The Biden administration failed to vet Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national accused of shooting National Guard members in Washington, before admitting him into the country in 2021, according to ...