Backups must be restored and verified—I measured the conditions under which SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL fail to restore and created a verification script

When judging whether a backup can be restored based solely on exit codes and integrity checks, I found conditions in SQLite, ...
Gadget Review

DOGE Engineer Accused of Copying Social Security Databases to a Thumb Drive

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons – both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought “why not start a website ...

If you swap a MySQL 8.4 volume to 9.7, accounts using mysql_native_password will no longer be able to connect—though it will start. I measured what remains and wh…

MySQL 9.7 is the next LTS after 8.4, and the official stance supports the path from 8.4 LTS to 9.7 LTS. Meanwhile, ...
HackerNoon

PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: How MVCC Works Under the Hood

Multi version concurrency control plays an important role in deciding relational databases. Each database management system ...
CNBC

AI race heats up as OpenAI flags alleged model-copying campaign

OpenAI said the activity surged to 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users over two days, with related activity ultimately identified across more than 15,000 users. The company said operators did ...
nytimes.com

Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies?

As Xi Jinping visits President Trump in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss claims that China is surreptitiously copying American A.I. technologies, a process known as distillation. By ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Health data attack the 'first' government hack by autonomous AI, researchers say

OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents appear to have used a German coding website to coordinate attempts to get access to Australian government health data, according to public logs. Researchers say ...
BleepingComputer

Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste for all Office users

Update September 23, 09:03 EDT: Microsoft also fixed the issue for Office Online customers. Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for Excel users after installing the ...
blog.csdn

MySQL Online DDL深度解析：INSTANT、INPLACE、COPY算法区别与运维实战

本内容遵循CC 4.0 BY-SA版权协议 有一次我参加阿里的Java面试，简历里写了大量MySQL调优的实践，面试官顺着表结构就抛了一句：“你在线上做过Online DDL吧？说说INSTANT、INPLACE、COPY三种算法到底有 ...
BleepingComputer

Microsoft fixes broken copy and paste for Excel 2016 users

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update. This follows a wave of customer reports on the ...
BetaNews

Microsoft acknowledges copy and paste problems in Excel after KB5002914 update

While Windows users are disappointingly familiar with updates causing problems, the same cannot be said of people using Microsoft Office. But with the release of the KB5002914 update for Excel, ...
notebookcheck

Excel paste fails silently after Microsoft's September security update

The paste fails without an error message. The source stays selected and the destination stays unchanged. Microsoft's September security update stops Excel from ...