For March, Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 83 vulnerabilities

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...
Security Boulevard

LeakyLooker: Hacking Google Cloud’s Data via Dangerous Looker Studio Vulnerabilities

Tenable Research revealed "LeakyLooker," a set of nine novel cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio. These flaws could have let attackers exfiltrate or modify data across Google services ...
New York Post

NYC’s migrant spending tops whopping $10B as Mamdani proposes another $1.2B for budget

Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans on spending another $1.2 billion next year on migrants arriving in the Big Apple, according to his preliminary budget proposal — and the combined price tag for the crisis is ...
InfoQ

Bun Introduces Built-in Database Clients and Zero-Config Frontend Development

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
GitHub

Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Three Brothers Found a 1939 Copy of ‘Superman No. 1’ in Their Mother’s Attic. It Just Became the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold

The front cover of Superman No. 1, the first issue in the first comic book series devoted to Superman Heritage Auctions Last year, three brothers began clearing out their late mother’s house in San ...
International Monetary Fund

World Economic Outlook Database

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...
Forbes

Why ‘One Battle After Another’ Could Bomb Despite No. 1 Opening

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another won the box office battle over the weekend, but could still lose big if business doesn’t pick up. An R-rated action comedy written ...
TechCrunch

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
Redmond Magazine

Why SQL Server Is Still Worth It

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...