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What Is the American Privacy Rights Act, and Who Supports It?

The American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), a proposed federal data privacy law that was introduced last month by Congresswomen from Washington State, is currently making its way through both halls of Congress. If ap Read more…

Will New Government Guidelines Spur Adoption of Privacy-Preserving Tech?

Michael Hughes, the chief business officer for Duality Technologies, could barely conceal his excitement when the White House Office of Science and Technology issued a directive calling for the adoption of privacy-enhanc Read more…

US Dept. of Commerce Asks for Help to Make Data GenAI-Ready

Data is at the heart of AI. Without good data, the odds of developing useful AI models are somewhere between slim and none. With that in mind, the Department of Commerce last week issued a public request for advice on ho Read more…

Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data

“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…

Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS

In the current tech paradigm, databases run on top of operating systems. But what if that stack was inverted, with an operating system running on top of the database? That’s the idea behind database guru Mike Stonebrak Read more…

News In Brief

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey

Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…

Informatica and Carahsoft Forge Partnership to Bring Advanced Cloud Data Management to the Public Sector

Informatica and Carahsoft Technology recently announced a partnership to distribute Informatica’s products to the public sector. Carahsoft says it will distribute Informatica's enterprise cloud data management and i Read more…

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data

Kinetica got its start building a GPU-powered database to serve fast SQL queries and visualizations for US government and military clients. But with a pair of announcements at Nvidia’s GTC show last week, the company i Read more…

EU Votes AI Act Into Law, with Enforcement Starting By End of 2024

European lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of the AI Act, the first major law regulating the use of artificial intelligence. The law is expected to go into effect by the end of the year. First proposed in 2018, th Read more…

This Just In

Neo4j Empowers Syracuse University with $250K Grant to Tackle Misinformation in 2024 Elections

May 8, 2024 |

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 8, 2024 — Neo4j has announced a $250,000 research grant and licensed use of its software to Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship (IDJC). Read more…

Deloitte and Google Public Sector Introduce New GenAI Platform for Smarter Government Solutions

May 1, 2024 |

ARLINGTON, Va., May 1, 2024 — Deloitte, in collaboration with Google Public Sector, unveiled the Elevating Digital Government Experiences (EDGE) platform, a next-generation solution powered by Google Cloud generative AI that helps government agencies enhance the delivery of timely information and services to the people they serve. Read more…

ORNL Utilizes Adaptable IO System to Enhance Data Analysis Capabilities on Frontier

Apr 29, 2024 |

April 29, 2024 — Amid the challenges that the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility faced in assembling and launching the world’s first exascale-class (more than a quintillion calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier, one key component was hitch-free. Read more…

SAS Advances Public Health Research with New Analytics Tools on NIH Researcher Workbench

Apr 25, 2024 |

CARY, N.C., April 25, 2024 — Public health researchers have a new, powerful tool from data and AI provider SAS to analyze the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program’s large and diverse data set. Read more…

Jülich’s New AI Foundation Models Aim to Advance Scientific Applications

Apr 22, 2024 |

April 22, 2024 — Together with its partner institutions within the Helmholtz Association, Forschungszentrum Jülich aims to build a new generation of AI foundation models for science. Read more…

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