The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Abstract: This paper investigates a novel client selection for the volatile Federated Learning (FL) systems, where volatility means that the state of the client set, client datasets, and client ...

Decentralized open source social network Mastodon is rolling out its latest release, version 4.5, which brings support for Quote Posts to all server operators, along with other features for admins, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

Epic Games is working to restore access to its gaming platform and multiple titles following a widespread server outage that began Saturday morning. The disruption started after Fortnite's servers ...

[UPDATE: 2025/11/02 | 01:43 AM EEST] Epic Games has updated its Fortnite downtime status page at 8:30 PM UTC saying “The scheduled maintenance has been completed.” In other words, the server should be ...

Microsoft has released a security update to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting multiple versions of Windows Server Update Services that was not fully eradicated by a ...

Windows Server 2025 is currently open to a Remote Code Execution exploit via the Windows Update Service, and at the time of this writing a fix from Microsoft has yet to fully patch the issue. Reports ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The latest warning from CISA, as part of Binding Operational ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Microsoft has released two new Dynamic Updates over the weekend for Windows 11 version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. These releases, separate from the latest optional preview updates, aim to improve ...