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Combining Atlan, Snowflake, and Sigma to Democratize Access to Well-governed DataAt a GlanceNorth, a leading payments solution provider processing over $100 billion in annual transactions, aimed to improve data discovery and governance atop their Snowflake- and Sigma-powered modern data stackAdopting Atlan as their active metadata platform, North has since achieved end-to-end visibility of 225,000 data assets, securing sensitive data, and increasing adoption of self-service analyticsIn less than a year, their team is projecting $1.4mm in annual efficiency gains and a 200% growth in Sigma adoption while realizing a 700% increase in tagged Snowflake assets which has contributed to mitigating millions…

Hyperscale providers are at the centre of global digital infrastructure. DC Byte’s 2025 Global Data Centre Index [email wall] estimates that public cloud, social media, and AI workloads account for nearly 70% of global data centre demand. Their build and leasing decisions shape where power networks are reinforced or need alteration/expansion, where national, state or international governments adjust policy, and where investment capital flows.The infrastructure story for enterprises and hyperscalers involves cloud costs, resilience, access to power grids, data sovereignty, environmental concerns, staffing, and the pace at which AI initiatives are predicted to scale.Hyperscale strategy shapes riskMcKinsey notes that AI…

We released Sophos DNS Protection for networks last year, and it is now close to serving its 600 billionth query. Since then, many of you have asked for a version that can be used on roaming endpoints and for additional insights into DNS requests along with DNS over HTTPS. Today, we are excited to launch the early access program (EAP) for DNS Protection on Windows endpoints with enhanced visibility into which users and devices are making DNS queries and support for HTTPS. As you know, Sophos DNS Protection for Endpoints enables an added layer of transparent web protection across all…

One year on: Rachel Reeves in 2024 (image credit: Fred Duval / Shutterstock). Observers in sectors such as waste, energy and construction responded to Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget, delivered on 26 November. The statement talked much about growth but seemed to offer little to fund it. The main headline-grabber was a £150 cut to the average household’s energy bill, from April 2026, a reduction secured in part by scrapping the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) – a long-standing scheme that obliges energy companies to fund home insulation and heating upgrades for low-income households. There was also some transference of costs from…

2/25/20 3:20 PM · 2 min read This is a tutorial for beginners about using PostgreSQL. I’ll show you how to automatically backup and restore the database. If you are already familiar with PostgreSQL, but you don’t know much about how to use databases in Vapor, you should read my other tutorial about Fluent for beginners.A quick intro to PostgreSQLPostgreSQL is an open source database, it’s available for macOS, Linux and some other operating systems. You can install it by using the de-facto package manager on every platform. 📦# Linux sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib sudo service postgresql start # check…

What have been the latest developments in digital R&D and lab automation, patient-centric design, digitalised manufacturing and supply chains? Highlighting the rise of a smart pharma, AUTOMA+ 2025 took place in Vösendorf, Austria on 24-25 November. The event was a dynamic interplay of technology, solutions and forward-thinking ideas. While all innovations were in a single venue, their influence extends worldwide. The Pharmaceutical Automation and Digitalisation Congress featured tech-savvy solutions for the pharmaceutical sector: AI integration and e-labelling for packaging, digital twins, AI, robotics, IoT in manufacturing, ethical and human-centric AI and more.Supported by Merck, ESTEVE, Octapharma, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma…

New court filings show that Elon Musk is seeking information from a mystery South Korean entity, as Apple and OpenAI receive a deadline extension. Here are the details. Apple and OpenAI seek more time, as Elon Musk seeks more information A few weeks ago, US District Judge Mark Pittman rejected Apple and OpenAI’s request to dismiss Musk’s lawsuit, basically stating that he wants to see more evidence before deciding one way or another. As a reminder, Musk decided to sue Apple after Grok failed to reach the top of the App Store following an update that brought new features. He…

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PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen resolutions, and memory constraints. The PICO-8 dev environment uses Lua and is focused on being accessible to developers while offering depth for complex projects. Johan Peitz is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He’s an expert in PICO-8 development, and joins the podcast to talk about creating games for the console. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind Mounjaro and Zepbound, became the first healthcare company in the world to achieve a trillion-dollar valuation.But we also learned that, disappointingly, GLP-1 drugs don’t seem to help people with Alzheimer’s disease. And that people who stop taking the drugs when they become pregnant can experience potentially dangerous levels of weight gain.…