Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...

The Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) has partnered with Binti, a child welfare technology company, to deploy advanced “family finding” software that accelerates the location of relatives ...

In 2025, India linked its near-universal population register with the National Intelligence Grid, making citizens’ demographic and familial data routinely searchable by security agencies.

The database is no longer just where data lives, but where context gets assembled. And in AI, context is everything. Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not ...

In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t ...

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Data managers are on the hook to deliver AI and intelligent agents to the enterprise when needed. To achieve these capabilities, they are working within diverse and decentralized data environments ...

Two Virginia men have been arrested for their roles in a conspiracy to destroy government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, among other crimes. The twins previously pleaded guilty ...

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as ...

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