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Immuta launches Agentic Data Access module for AI agents
Immuta unveiled an Agentic Data Access module that lets autonomous AI agents retrieve enterprise data in real time while enforcing governance policies. The module treats agents as first‑class data users, applying least‑access and zero standing privileges and providing audit trails, all built on Immuta’s policy engine.
Nigeria’s credit penetration has topped 40%, signaling a rapid shift toward broader financial inclusion. CRC Credit Bureau, the country’s largest licensed bureau, has built the most comprehensive credit data ecosystem by pulling information from banks, fintechs, utilities, telcos, and digital payment platforms. The bureau’s alternative‑data analytics, Account Aggregator platform, and real‑time APIs are enabling first‑time borrowers and SMEs to generate formal credit profiles. Looking ahead, CRC aims to double penetration within five years while expanding across Africa and embedding credit decisioning into fintech services.
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Yodo1 Games has launched IPVerse, a free data‑intelligence platform that consolidates global IP and licensing information for in‑game collaborations. The service draws from over 80,000 events, 20,000 brands and 15,000 games, offering AI‑driven matching, popularity indices and regional insights, including...
The United Arab Emirates’ Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released its Falcon family of large language models as open‑source, positioning the nation as a challenger to big‑tech AI dominance. Falcon models emphasize efficiency, with the 7‑billion‑parameter H1R delivering high‑performance reasoning...
StarRocks is attracting heavyweight users such as Coinbase, Pinterest and Fresha because it delivers sub‑second query latency on terabyte‑scale analytics while reading directly from lakehouse storage. The platform’s shared‑nothing architecture, colocated joins, caching layer and a cost‑based optimizer let it...
The PostGIS development team announced a series of bug‑fix patch releases covering versions 3.2 through 3.6, while designating 3.0.12 and 3.1.13 as end‑of‑life. New patches include 3.6.2, 3.5.5, 3.4.5, 3.3.9 and 3.2.9, each addressing stability and security issues. Users still...
VMware released Workstation Pro 25H2 (version 17.6.4), expanding hardware compatibility and adding a host of new guest operating systems. The update introduces USB 3.2, hardware version 22, and a new dictTool CLI for editing VM configuration files. Licensing changed in 2024, making Workstation Pro free...
At my work every month we look at customer retention. A single churn rate doesn't tell the whole story. You need to show when customers are leaving. Here's how you can do it with a cohort analysis heatmap in python
I've been thinking about this math a lot and weighing if that 2% chance of $50m is worth it. I've built DataExpert.io to $2M ARR over the last three years. I could exit for $8-10m now. In 3 years not...
Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki’s article breaks down PostgreSQL’s spinlock mechanism, detailing its low‑latency design and adaptive backoff strategy. It explains the four‑function API (Init, Acquire, Release, Free) and shows how contention is handled through incremental micro‑second sleeps. The piece also introduces the...
The signal-to-noise problem is about to become unsolvable for humans alone. When AI makes ALL content (texts, emails, PRs, job apps, grant apps, college apps, mail) high-quality and infinite in volume, every filtering process breaks. And when it can’t be filtered...
A data engineering team discovered that a three‑year SCD Type 2 backfill executed day‑by‑day produced 47,000 overlapping records, timeline gaps, and unrecoverable errors. The author introduced "Healing Tables," a framework that separates change detection from period construction and rebuilds the dimension in...
The episode explores how moving data into modern warehouses and lakes introduces hidden risks that go beyond technical challenges, emphasizing governance, data quality, and transformation controls. It highlights that inconsistencies in source systems, ambiguous definitions, and poorly documented transformation logic...
The article explains how to read buffer statistics from PostgreSQL's EXPLAIN output, a skill essential for diagnosing I/O bottlenecks. Starting with PostgreSQL 18, buffer metrics are included automatically, eliminating the need for the BUFFERS option. It breaks down shared, local, and...
Cambridge researchers introduced Latency‑Aware Group Scheduling (LAGS), a Linux kernel patch that reshapes how the scheduler handles Kubernetes workloads. By favoring short‑running tasks and cutting context‑switch overhead, LAGS lifts cluster throughput by roughly 10‑20 %. Benchmarks show the same 600‑container workload...
Machine learning teams are increasingly overlooking pipeline efficiency, a hidden driver of productivity. Slow data I/O, redundant preprocessing, and mismatched compute inflate the iteration gap, limiting the number of hypotheses tested per week. The article outlines five audit areas—data ingestion,...
Voltage ride‑through (VRT) enables data‑center hardware to stay connected to the grid during brief outages or brownouts, preventing immediate shutdowns. By using UPS units that buffer power and can switch instantly to backup sources, VRT eliminates the latency of manual...
📊 The ETL Data Pipeline From raw sources (databases, APIs, files) → clean & transform (cleaning, joining, aggregating) → load into warehouse/analytics for BI, reports & ML. E → T → L: the backbone of modern data workflows.🚀
The article outlines four progressive techniques for cutting row‑count estimation errors in PostgreSQL. It begins with per‑table autovacuum tuning to keep statistics fresh, then moves to raising column‑level statistics targets for finer sampling. Next, it introduces extended statistics to model...
MIT CSAIL and Asari AI introduced EnCompass, a Python framework that adds systematic search and backtracking to AI agents using large language models. Developers annotate "branchpoints" where LLM outputs may vary, then the runtime explores execution paths with strategies such...
SQL Server Central’s engineers built a custom email‑queue using plain SQL Server tables and a lightweight .NET sender to replace an expensive third‑party service. By inserting newsletters and user addresses into an EmailNewsletter table, they processed batches of 500 rows,...
VAST Data is closing a $1 billion financing round that values the AI‑focused storage vendor at roughly $30 billion. The bulk of the cash will come from a secondary sale where existing shareholders dump 5‑6 shares for each new issue, generating $700‑$850 million...
AI infrastructure financing is rapidly evolving as traditional bank lending can’t keep pace with the capital intensity of AI‑ready data centers. Lenders are stepping back because power‑delivery risk and SPV structures clash with cash‑flow lending models. GPUs now face six‑to‑nine‑month...
Cohesity has integrated Google Cloud Threat Intelligence directly into the Cohesity Data Cloud UI and added Google Private Scanning for secure, privacy‑preserving malware detonation. The enhancement gives customers real‑time visibility into indicators of compromise and streamlines threat analysis without leaving...
MinIO has made its AIStor Tables feature generally available, embedding the full Apache Iceberg V3 Catalog REST API directly into its object storage platform. The integration lets enterprises treat Iceberg tables as first‑class citizens, unifying structured and unstructured data for...
Data Direct Networks (DDN) has named former Cisco and Groq executive Mohsen Moazami as vice chairman, a move seen as positioning the high‑performance computing firm for a public offering. The appointment follows a $300 million Blackstone investment and a strategic shift...
In this episode, Adam Miskiewicz, Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb, explains how the company built Viaduct, an open‑source data‑oriented service mesh and GraphQL platform that unifies a central schema across millions of microservices. He details the architectural principles—centralized schema, consistent...
Cyberhaven launched a unified AI‑driven Data Security Posture Management platform that integrates DSPM, DLP, insider risk management and AI security across endpoints, SaaS, cloud and on‑prem environments. The solution leverages comprehensive data lineage and agentic AI to provide continuous visibility,...
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unveiled a seven‑year data strategy (2023‑2030) that pivots to a federated hub‑and‑spoke operating model for data management and governance. The plan targets a 20% cost reduction over five years, modernises legacy systems,...
Let me explain to y’all saying can’t i do both the $370k full time data science role at Anthropic & my startup. As someone who has analyzed 2.5billion daily active youtube user data, data science is intense You cannot do deep...
Cerebras Systems closed a $1 billion Series H financing round, valuing the company at roughly $23 billion post‑money. The round was led by Tiger Global and included investors such as Benchmark, Fidelity, AMD and Coatue. Proceeds will accelerate production of the Wafer Scale...
Technical University of Munich unveiled the EU’s first 7‑nanometer AI chip, a neuromorphic processor built on an open‑source RISC‑V architecture. Designed by Prof. Hussam Amrouch, the chip processes data locally, promising higher privacy and security than cloud‑centric solutions. Production will shift...
The Cluster API project released version 1.12.0, adding in‑place machine updates and chained upgrade capabilities for Kubernetes clusters. The update introduces declarative update extensions that let teams modify existing nodes without recreating them, leveraging only create and delete primitives. Fabrizio Pandini...
NV5 unveiled GeoAgent, an agentic AI platform that automates geospatial intelligence through natural‑language interaction. The solution acts as an operational layer over existing tools, orchestrating data discovery, multimodal analytics, and mission‑ready outputs without requiring specialist expertise. By shifting from tool‑driven...
Pentaho announced the release of Data Integration and Business Analytics Version 11, a major platform upgrade aimed at simplifying data workflows and supporting AI initiatives. The update introduces a browser‑based Pipeline Designer, Project Profile for organizing ETL assets, and a new...
The data‑center industry faces a looming talent shortage as up to half of its engineers could retire within the next two years, creating a critical experience gap. Rapid growth in AI‑driven workloads and ultra‑high‑density designs intensifies the need for skilled...
Oracle introduced the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI‑enabled solution that consolidates diverse life‑science datasets and applies agentic AI to accelerate research, clinical trials, and commercialization. The platform offers out‑of‑the‑box AI agents and tools for label expansion,...
Oracle Financial Services unveiled an enterprise‑class, AI‑infused platform designed for banks and finance firms. The suite bundles pre‑built AI agents, design tools, and decisioning frameworks that deliver conversational, hyper‑personalized experiences across digital and branch channels. Oracle emphasizes a "human‑in‑the‑loop" model...
A new KDnuggets article spotlights five open‑source AI models that enable text‑driven image editing, ranging from Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 [klein] 9B to Alibaba Cloud's Qwen‑Image‑Edit‑2511 and newer adapters like FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo. The models deliver real‑time generation, multi‑reference editing, bilingual support,...
MariaDB’s chief product officer Vikas Mathur explained the trade‑offs between active‑passive and active‑active database architectures. Active‑passive relies on a primary server with idle standby replicas, offering low complexity but higher cost and unused capacity. Active‑active runs multiple nodes handling reads...
PostgreSQL 18 introduces a native skip‑scan operator for multicolumn B‑tree indexes, allowing the planner to jump between distinct leading‑key values instead of scanning the entire index. Earlier releases could already perform a full‑index scan when the index was smaller than...
AI anomaly detection is reshaping warehouse security by using machine‑learning models to learn normal movement, access and handling patterns and flagging deviations in real time. The technology fuses video, IoT sensors, RFID and WMS data, delivering precise alerts while cutting...
Hitachi Ltd. is exploring a sale of its Hitachi Vantara data‑storage unit for up to ¥200 billion ($1.3 billion). The move follows a strategic pivot toward higher‑margin businesses such as energy transmission and digital SaaS services. Hitachi Vantara generated roughly ¥300 billion in...
The article introduces the lakehouse architecture as a unified platform that combines the scalability of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses. It highlights how Delta Lake brings ACID transaction support and schema enforcement to open‑source storage, enabling reliable...
Samsung has begun shipping a 4 TB PM9E1 M.2 2242 SSD that targets space‑constrained AI workstations such as Nvidia DGX Spark. The drive uses Samsung’s 236‑layer Gen 8 V‑NAND, dual‑sided DRAM, and a 5 nm Presto controller, delivering up to 2 million random read IOPS, 2.64 million...
Western Digital announced qualification of a 40 TB UltraSMR hard‑disk drive and unveiled a roadmap that could reach 100 TB using heat‑assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) by 2027. The company introduced High‑Bandwidth Drive (HBD) technology that initially doubles I/O throughput, with plans for...
Gartner projects global IT spending to rise 10.8% to $6.2 trillion by 2026, with datacentre equipment spending surging 32% and software up nearly 15%. AI investment will total $2.52 trillion, a 44% year‑over‑year jump, driven largely by hyperscale cloud providers expanding AI‑optimized...
PostgreSQL materialized views create a physical snapshot of expensive query results, allowing fast, indexed reads while shifting computation to scheduled refreshes. The article demonstrates turning a 28‑second revenue aggregation into a 180‑millisecond lookup by building, indexing, and refreshing a materialized...
Data analytics is reshaping HR performance appraisals in India, moving them from memory‑based, annual snapshots to continuous, evidence‑driven processes. By aggregating goal achievement, peer feedback, and productivity metrics, companies now generate real‑time dashboards that capture an employee’s full performance journey....
Designing reliable data pipelines in cloud‑native environments begins with clear expectations and ownership before any code is written. Teams must assume upstream volatility, embrace failure as a design premise, and build idempotent, replay‑friendly workflows that limit blast radius. Robust observability—beyond...
Construction firms are facing larger projects, tighter schedules, and heightened client expectations, exposing the limits of spreadsheets and paper-based processes. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software consolidates field data, finance, procurement, and project management into a single platform, enabling real‑time visibility...
