The Treasury Department is pooling information about people who received benefits from pandemic-era relief programs in a new, central database it says will be used to conduct program audits. It’s the ...

Critics say the scope established in the agency’s systems of record notice “is an astonishing and dramatic departure from prior Treasury practice.” Treasury Data Governance The Treasury Department is ...

President Donald Trump is again trying to exert control over American elections, signing an executive order Tuesday that aims to create federal lists of citizens and ask the U.S. Postal Service to ...

Recently we were introduced to OpenClaw, an AI that allows users to create their own agents to control apps like email, Spotify and home controls. Now, Sam Altman has announced that OpenAI has ...

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’ ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) vowed her administration will create a database for New Jerseyans to upload videos of federal immigration officers conducting enforcement activities. “We are putting out ...

In a quest to bolster a long-running claim from President Trump concerning undocumented immigrants illegally voting, the Justice Department is seeking detailed voter roll data from over 30 states. By ...

The Trump Administration is working with tech company Palantir to collect all unclassified information about U.S. citizens into a nationwide, centralized database for federal agency heads and their ...

In a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when ...

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The possible creation of a shareable, governmentwide database of Americans’ personal information would be a “surveillance nightmare,” 10 House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to the tech ...