Tom's Hardware on MSN

Microsoft debuts DirectStorage 1.4 at GDC 2026, with Zstandard compression and GACL

DirectStorage 1.4 brings along key upgrades to the API, including support for Zstandard compression as well as CreatorID for improved GPU scheduling.
Art of the Problem on MSN

Why some messages can be compressed more than others, Huffman coding and Shannon’s entropy

Why can some messages be compressed while others cannot? This video explores Huffman coding and Shannon’s concept of entropy, showing how probability and information theory determine the ultimate ...

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.
InfoQ

From Minutes to Seconds: Uber Boosts MySQL Cluster Uptime with Consensus Architecture

Uber redesigned its MySQL fleet using a consensus-driven architecture based on MySQL Group Replication, reducing cluster failover time from minutes to seconds. By moving leader election and failure ...
IEEE

SMPCache: Towards More Efficient SQL Queries in Multi-Party Collaborative Data Analysis

Abstract: Privacy-preserving collaborative data analysis is a popular research direction in recent years. Among all such analysis tasks, privacy-preserving SQL ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday update.
InfoWorld

MariaDB taps GridGain to keep pace with AI-driven data demands

The company plans to integrate GridGain’s in-memory computing tech to deliver sub-millisecond performance for operational, ...