GitHub today announced that it’s releasing activity data for 2.8 million open source code repositories and making it available for people to analyze with the Google BigQuery cloud-based data ...

When you're ready to deposit your data for sharing and archiving, look into whether there is already a repository in your field where the most likely users of your data would look. The following sites ...

Some say, “data is the new oil,” with an air of seriousness. And while the phrase may capture a certain truth about the modern digital economy, it fails to model the way that bits can be copied again ...

Yesterday a Medium post went by that caught my eye – the CEO of a contractor claiming that it had been informed by the US Government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it would potentially ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google’s goal has ...

Open data is one of those refreshing trends that flows in the opposite direction of the culture of fear that has developed around data security. Instead of putting data under lock and key, surrounded ...

A large number of researchers among Indonesia’s scientific community have been known to perform unethical data tampering. Many manipulate statistical data to gain a reputation as a researcher who ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs highlights a growing wave of malicious software packages exploiting system vulnerabilities. Based on data collected since November 2024, the ...