A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

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Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.

It is important information, too, not only because the data provide a view of how the economy is doing but also because that view shapes the stock market's earnings outlook. The economic reports, ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of ...

The Arctic World Archive — 300 meters below the permafrost in a demilitarized zone — houses art, music and a copy of the world’s open source code.

Police Abuse Los Angeles Sheriff Misused Confidential Database Thousands of Times To Run Concealed Carry Background Checks Public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show how ...

Big Data is becoming an important tool for agencies, and as the data itself grows dramatically, the storage and data management solutions that agencies employ become more critical. As agencies deal ...

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records ...