Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. At Data Summit 2026, James Serra, data and AI Architect at Microsoft, held his ...

DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than ...

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

MS NOW contributor Anand Giridharadas argued in an interview this week that President Donald Trump was an unserious form of Adolf Hitler because at least Hitler was "very serious" about his actions ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

A proposed $750 million data center is planned for Clinton, Mississippi, though the company involved has not been officially named. Amazon Web Services has expressed support for the project, citing ...

The data and AI platform developer is now marketing its new Zerobus Ingest software as an alternative to legacy message-based software for real-time and near-real-time data movement. Databricks is ...

Ali Velshi has been named chief data reporter for MS NOW, offering analysis and the latest polling and results on election night and other events. Velshi, who hosts his own show on the network, was at ...

The veteran journalist will lead election results and polling on election nights for the cable channel. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor MS NOW has named Ali Velshi its chief data reporter, giving the ...