Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 566 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
The FBI is seeking to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs), which would enable the agency to track vehicle movements across the country without a warrant, according to procurement records…
Google's methodology for conducting large-scale A/B experiments on its core infrastructure, such as operating systems and memory allocators, rather than just on user-facing features. It highlights four key pillars of thi…
At Google Cloud Next '26, the company announced new streaming AI capabilities for its Agentic Data Cloud, designed to provide autonomous agents with real-time context and enable immediate actions. The unified streaming d…
Organizations must shift from static data reports to dynamic, AI-driven systems by routing fragmented data into secure endpoints, requiring a fundamental architectural change beyond simply connecting an LLM to a database…
PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a more flexible inference-engine interface, allowing developers to select the backend (including Transformers) via the `engine` parameter and configure backend-specific options through `engine_co…
Swiggy developed a real-time machine learning ranking system for search autocomplete that replaces hand-tuned heuristics with a learned ranking model running directly inside OpenSearch, operating under strict latency con…
At least nine U.S. states have introduced legislation aimed at preventing local municipalities from regulating AI data centers within their communities. These bills seek to limit local control over the placement and oper…
In this podcast episode, critical informatics scholar Britt Paris discusses her new book, *Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up*, which examines the physical infrastructure of the internet an…
Open-source macOS tool called "auto-identity-remove" that automates the process of opting out of over 500 data broker and people-search sites. The script runs monthly, uses AI-powered CAPTCHA solving, tracks completed op…
Melbourne is leveraging its expertise in hosting major global events to build a "research flywheel" that combines large-scale AI compute infrastructure, data-intensive research, and international collaboration. A key com…
Google is expanding its content transparency tools across Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel, and Cloud to help users understand the origin and editing history of digital media. The company is scaling its SynthID watermarking…
Libertas Software Research Ltd, founded one year ago, has grown from a concept into a business with real clients and products, focusing on building custom software tailored to how businesses operate. Founder Adrian empha…
In this "No Dumb Questions" article, Stack Overflow's infrastructure tech lead Josh Zhang explains that cloud computing is essentially using "someone else's computer" to avoid the high costs and complexity of managing ph…
This article is a behind-the-scenes look at how a story about ICE using Palantir to track 20 million people on iPhones was reported. The journalist, Joseph, explains he gathered information by speaking to four conference…
In a two-part episode recorded at HumanX, Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen discusses how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, shifting observability's focus to capturing the right telemetry. Resolve AI founder Sp…
Release of datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0, a plugin for Datasette that works with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to enforce per-user or global spending limits on LLM usage. It provides an example configuration sh…
The article describes how GitHub's Issues Performance team modernized navigation by shifting from server-rendered pages to a client-side caching system. They built a caching layer using IndexedDB, implemented a preheatin…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also reimagined Firestor…
A Reddit user on r/DHExchange offering to sell a database of over 150,000 labeled images of human feces, collected from 25,000 users of his AI-powered poop analysis app. The poster sought advice on monetizing the dataset…
The article describes how Cloudflare engineers resolved a performance slowdown in their billing pipeline caused by a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse after migrating to a new partitioning scheme. The migration aimed to en…