Performance issues rarely arrive with warnings. Most of the time, systems slow down quietly. A new feature adds a few extra queries. A helper function runs more often than expected. A small shortcut ...

Two newly released databases documenting the lives of more than 150,000 enslaved people in Cuba and Brazil are now available to researchers worldwide, offering an unprecedented empirical foundation ...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee said that he believes there are “at least tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands” of noncitizens illegally registered to vote in the U.S., adding that a federal ...

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, originally from Southeast Asia and introduced through the pet trade. The non-venomous constrictors disrupt the ecosystem by preying on native ...

Among 82 CDC databases updated at least monthly as of early 2025, 46% had unexplained pauses by late October 2025. While none of the 44 databases that continued to be updated through late October ...

Faster Python is now within reach, thanks to its shiny new JIT. But we also have fast dataframes thanks to Pandas, and three slick new GUI interfaces for SQLite. And then there’s Zed, the new ...

An ICE officer records people inside their car using a cell phone during a traffic stop in St. Paul on Jan. 6.

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...