InfoWorld

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

From the browser to the back end, the ‘boring’ choice is exciting again. We look at three trends converging to bring SQL back ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI, Parallelism And Dependencies Between SQL Queries In DirectQuery Mode

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...
Boing Boing on MSNOpinion

Microsoft blogger suggests you train AI on pirated Harry Potter

Following a "backlash," Microsoft has removed a blog post [archive.is] suggesting that you train an AI on Harry Potter, which ...
Santa Clara University

Prompt Privacy: An AI Ethics Case Study

Every day, millions of people input prompts (whether questions or instructions) into AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DALL-E, or Meta AI. Recently, media coverage highlighted what seemed ...

FirstEnergy exec testifies about steps taken to pay Randazzo $4.3M

Testimony about FirstEnergy's roughly $4.3 million payment to Sam Randazzo takes center stage in Chuck Jones' and Michael ...
GitHub

SQLDRILLER: Automated Validating and Fixing of Text-to-SQL Translation with Execution Consistency

SQLDRILLER is a Text-to-SQL translation correctness checking tool. It introduces and applies Execution Consistency to automatically discover and fix errors in Text-to-SQL datasets, and in Text-to-SQL ...
PBS

Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on investigation

Minnesota's investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney's office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer's fatal ...
CNN

Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart

Even with a federal indictment hanging over her, claiming she had been a threat to law enforcement, Marimar Martinez was confident she could eventually prove her innocence. “I know the truth,” ...
TCTMD

BTK Scaffolds – From Esprit to Reflow: What Does it Mean to Be a Scaffold (Case Examples)?

Lesion Preparation Throwdown: BTK Cases When I use Atherectomy? Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from major meetings right to your inbox. TCTMD ® is produced by the ...