The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users' data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition ...

First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still transmitting information to Google about temperature, humidity, lighting, and more. First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still ...

A security researcher found that discontinued first- and second-gen Nest Thermostats are still sending extensive data, including motion and temperature logs, to Google. This data stream continues ...

The new world of information supplied by drones hovering above is allowing researchers to more easily measure whale size, body condition and health; to identify individual animals from features on ...

I don't know that there's much programming to be discussed in connection with this article, as opposed to "privacy invasive devices are bad" or other things of that nature. The article says As for the ...

Demand has never been greater for the monitoring of objects in orbit and the coordination of their safe movement. The number of active satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) has surged from less than a ...

Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever. Enter Tesla’s secret lab ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to ...

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.

A California judge has temporarily blocked the federal government from collecting personal information about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants in 21 states and Washington, ...