Cybersecurity firm UpGuard identified roughly 16,000 Supabase-hosted databases that were publicly accessible, exposing personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords and some authentication tokens. Supabase, a backend platform valued at $10 billion this year, has seen surging use among developers building AI 'vibe-coded' apps, and has previously faced criticism over how customers configure database security.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-25
DBOS engineers debugging a Postgres-backed queue system found that SELECT DISTINCT was their most expensive query, even though it appeared simplest. They discovered that Postgres always scans every row matching a query's predicates when computing DISTINCT values, regardless of indexing or how few unique values exist, making it a poor fit for finding active partitions in a queue workload.
dbos.dev
· 2026-09-24
EMBL-EBI's AlphaFold Protein Structure Database has been expanded with more than 8,000 predicted structures of interacting protein pairs from viruses spanning 23 families that infect humans, including monkeypox virus. The addition, part of a new 'pandemic preparedness portal', builds on an earlier 2024 update that added 1.7 million interacting protein pairs from 20 organisms such as humans and tuberculosis bacteria.
nature.com
· 2026-09-24
QuestDB, the open-source time-series database company, posted a job listing for a Pre-Sales Engineer based in North America. The role covers technical validation throughout the sales cycle for its Enterprise product. QuestDB says its open-source repository has passed 17,000 GitHub stars and it recently won Best Trading Analytics Platform at the TradingTech Summit Europe.
questdb.com
· 2026-09-23
Researchers compared genomes from over 100 non-human great apes—including bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—against thousands of human genomes to identify DNA substitutions unique and fixed in humans. They applied strict filtering criteria involving sequencing depth, genotype quality and allelic balance, then cross-checked results against archaic human genomes from Neanderthals and Denisovans, producing a curated set of human-specific variants for further functional testing via a massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA).
nature.com
· 2026-09-23
The ShinyHunters hacking group released hundreds of thousands of files taken from Florida's DAVID motor vehicle database, saying it did so because the state agency refused to pay ransom or negotiate. Florida's FLHSMV confirmed the breach, which occurred after attackers obtained a police officer's login credentials stored on a personal device.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-16
A newly launched digital resource called the Khipu Field Guide compiles what its creators describe as the largest and most accurate database of Inka khipus, the knotted cord devices used to record information in the 14th-16th century Inkan empire. The project, built over two years, also includes translated Spanish court documents referencing 'paper khipus' and draws on decades of prior scholarship, including work by Marcia and Robert Ascher.
khipufieldguide.com
· 2026-09-16
Researchers filtered the PostgreSQL version of the CHEMBL34 database to find pairs of compounds tested against the same protein target, assay, activity type and publication, where one molecule was a simple chemical modification of the other (such as swapping a hydrogen for fluorine or a carbon for nitrogen). This produced 191,732 parent-analogue pairs, which the team supplemented by synthesizing new analogues from 18 selected parent compounds using RDKit-driven enumeration of feasible single-atom substitutions, each capped at $400 per 10 mg.
nature.com
· 2026-09-16
Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles confirmed the ShinyHunters extortion group breached its DAVID driver database on September 4, 2026, after the gang claimed to have stolen over 200,000 driver records. FLHSMV said the intruder used login credentials from a single Plant City Police Department account that had been improperly saved on the employee's personal device, contradicting ShinyHunters' claim that it exploited a password-reset flaw across multiple accounts.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-11
A new open-source project called EterDB extends PostgreSQL with the ability to reverse individual transactions, including updates, deletes, or entire batches, even after they have been committed. It tracks dependencies between reads and writes so that changes relying on a bad transaction are also caught, and it retains an append-only history that allows recovery of data from weeks or months earlier.
eterdb.com
· 2026-09-10
The ShinyHunters extortion group says it broke into Florida's DAVID driver database used by law enforcement, allegedly exploiting a password-reset weakness to hijack multiple accounts, including one belonging to an FBI agent. The hackers claim to have exfiltrated over 200,000 driver records and posted Jeffrey Epstein's DMV file—complete with his address, Social Security number, and vehicle history—as proof, while listing the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles agency on their leak site to pressure payment.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-08
The open-source media server project Jellyfin has shipped version 12.0, a stable release that completes the database conversion started in 10.11 and translates it into concrete performance gains. The update also adds long-requested support for books and comics, alongside changes to how usernames and alternate video versions are stored.
jellyfin.org
· 2026-09-08
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