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Medicaid Hands Over Database Of Enrollees To ICE - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/medicaid-hands-over-database-of-enrollees-to-ice/

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--A bona fide self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages,
--BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence,
--Coinbase beach suspect accused of participating in $500k bribery scheme,
--DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database,
--MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer,
--DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and oth…

A self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages
BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence, Coinbase breach suspect accused of participating in $500k+ bribery scheme, DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database, MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer, DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and others, much more

The dark side of open datasets in an era of rampant AI Slop. This is why we cannot have nice things.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/09/16/exclusive-journal-bans-drug-safety-database-papers-as-they-flood-the-literature/

Are you running open-source databases on Kubernetes? At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Peter Zaitsev discussed best practices for high availability, security, backups, and disaster recovery. Discover key pitfalls to avoid and learn how Operators can simplify database management for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL in Kubernetes environments.
Watch the full session:

Anyone identify this bird? (Just seen in Manchester, UK). It looks way too small and ungainly for a heron, but moderately long neck. hmm.

The Unfamous Files
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results
Jonathan A. Karr Jr, Ben Darden, Nicholas Pell, Ryan M. Fryer, Kayla Ambrose, Evan Hall, Ramzi K. Bualuan, Nitesh V. Chawla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10600

National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results
The National Running Club Database (NRCD) aggregates 15,397 race results of 5,585 athletes from the 2023 and 2024 cross country seasons. This paper introduces the NRCD dataset, which provides insights into individual athlete progressions, enabling data-driven decision-making. Analysis reveals that runners' improvement per calendar day for women, racing 6,000m, and men, racing 8,000m, is more pronounced in athletes with slower initial race times and those who race more frequently. Additionally, …

DOJ demands Illinois hand over complete voter database, including sensitive redacted information
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/illinois/doj-demands-illinois-hand-over-complete-voter-database-including-sensitive-redacted-information/

from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet

dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection