Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.
Security Boulevard

LeakyLooker: Hacking Google Cloud’s Data via Dangerous Looker Studio Vulnerabilities

Tenable Research revealed "LeakyLooker," a set of nine novel cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio. These flaws could have let attackers exfiltrate or modify data across Google services ...
InfoWorld

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

From the browser to the back end, the ‘boring’ choice is exciting again. We look at three trends converging to bring SQL back ...
GitHub

remoteStorage is a simple library that combines the localStorage API with a remote server to persist data across browsers and devices.

Storing data in localStorage is useful, but it's not a good solution when you store data that needs to be shared across multiple devices or browsers. For instance, let's say you want to show a welcome ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
Wired

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...
Interesting Engineering

End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

Microscoft’s glass storage method can store 4.8 terabytes of data.Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information inside small ...
ScienceAlert

This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...
TechSpot

Project Silica breakthrough lets Microsoft store digital data in glass for 10,000 years

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...
Inc

Microsoft Just Found a Way to Store Data for Millennia by Using a Common Kitchen Item

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...
Scientific American

Robot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millennia

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...
The Guardian

Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy ...