Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
Computer Weekly

Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding.

Snowflake expands open data strategy with Iceberg V3 support and governance portability plan

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its open data architecture strategy with a set of interoperability enhancements that aim to ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, And A Very Full Patch Tuesday

CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by a previous fix to the auth workflow. In the ...
InfoWorld

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual ...