Abstract: Today, most database-backed web applications depend on the database to handle deadlocks. At runtime, the database monitors the progress of transaction execution to detect deadlocks and abort ...

Retail giant Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology (FRT) on its customers, the privacy commissioner has found. Over the two years until July 2022, Kmart captured the facial ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) ambushed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and the rest of Senate Republican leadership Wednesday morning by filing an amendment to the National ...

The Gemini app finally supports audio uploads on Android, iOS, and the web for expanded file analysis options. Open Gemini’s ‘plus’ menu for “Files” (mobile) or “Upload files” (web) and select any ...

Google has steadily been updating Gemini since its debut in 2023, giving its AI chatbot more capabilities and functionality over time. Now, it looks like the company has finally addressed one of the ...

Congress is back in Washington and the clock is already ticking. Lawmakers have less than one month to avoid a government shutdown. Also on the table is a fierce fight over billions in spending cuts ...

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DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. Although the attacks described in the two reports use ...

You can now search for files through the Copilot app. The new search requires a Copilot+ PC and Windows 11 insider access. The feature works by scanning the files in your Recents folder. Follow ZDNET: ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

Senate Democrats are using an arcane procedural tool to try to force the Department of Justice to release additional files from the Jeffrey Epstein case – the latest gambit to keep the issue front-and ...