Data / Databases / Infrastructure

Researchers Discover 14,000 Routers Wrangled Into Never-Before-Seen Botnet (it.slashdot.org)

/. 0 pts 7 comments by BeauHD 17h ago botnetit Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy thread

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices -- primarily made by Asus -- that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously carries traffic used for cybercrime. The ma...

Swiss E-Voting Pilot Can't Count 2,048 Ballots After USB Keys Fail To Decrypt Them (it.slashdot.org)

/. 0 pts 42 comments by BeauHD 20h ago encryptionit Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy thread

A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn't decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. "Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none of them worked," spokesperson Marco Greiner told the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Swissinfo serv...

Who’s liable when your AI agent burns down production? How Amazon’s Kiro took down AWS for thirteen hours and why the ‘human error’ label tells you everything wrong about the agentic AI era.

~ 45 pts 14 comments by unknown Feb 22, 2026 ~techamazon.web_services AI / Machine Learning Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Solving Factorio with Terraform (youtube.com)

~ 17 pts 1 comments by unknown Jan 13, 2026 ~games Data / Databases / Infrastructure Gaming / Retro Computing thread

The EU Grids Package: A blueprint for Europe’s future energy infrastructure (hsfkramer.com)

~ 16 pts 2 comments by unknown Dec 21, 2025 ~enviro Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

Request for help: Backing up NASA public databases

~ 61 pts 28 comments by unknown Nov 4, 2025 ~space Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

For the relocated Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost settlement, located above the Arctic Circle, planners prioritised infrastructure links over microclimate (euronews.com)

~ 11 pts 0 comments by unknown Nov 2, 2025 ~design Data / Databases / Infrastructure Design / UX / Visualization thread

EU country grouping cleared to build sovereign digital infrastructure (euractiv.com)

~ 33 pts 14 comments by unknown Oct 30, 2025 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Using NFS mount with docker containers

~ 6 pts 2 comments by unknown Oct 20, 2025 ~comp Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Interpreting the Open Database License

~ 10 pts 6 comments by unknown Oct 19, 2025 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

How do I convince my workplace we need SQL databases?

~ 29 pts 14 comments by unknown Oct 13, 2025 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Looking forward to Apple Container/Containerization tool in macOS 26, an alternative to Docker

~ 29 pts 16 comments by unknown Sep 27, 2025 ~comp Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Russia's involvement in drone sightings [that closed Copenhagen airport for four hours] cannot be ruled out, Danish PM says: "the most severe attack on Danish infrastructure so far" (bbc.com)

~ 14 pts 1 comments by unknown Sep 24, 2025 ~society Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Matrix.org homeserver experienced database problems on September 2nd, apps were unable to connect for ~24hrs (bsky.app)

~ 25 pts 12 comments by unknown Sep 3, 2025 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' (pcgamer.com)

~ 74 pts 44 comments by unknown Jul 22, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Home-lab set-up ... Docker vs native servers? Pros and cons of each?

~ 25 pts 27 comments by unknown Jul 20, 2025 ~comp Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Mysterious database of 184 million records exposes vast array of login credentials (wired.com)

~ 25 pts 14 comments by unknown Jun 1, 2025 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Donald Trump taps Palantir to create master database on every American (newrepublic.com)

~ 43 pts 25 comments by unknown May 30, 2025 ~society Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

World's largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats (nanosats.eu)

~ 8 pts 2 comments by unknown May 17, 2025 ~space Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveils US autism database project (medpagetoday.com)

~ 35 pts 14 comments by unknown May 8, 2025 ~society Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

~ 5 pts 1 comments by unknown May 1, 2025 ~comp Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

We can terraform the American West (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

~ 14 pts 7 comments by unknown Apr 30, 2025 ~enviro Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics thread

Arch Linux to switch from Redis to Valkey

~ 21 pts 0 comments by unknown Apr 19, 2025 ~complinux.archopen_source Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Blackhat hacker 'EncryptHub' behind vibe-coded ransomware unmasked due to opsec mistakes in ChatGPT-created infrastructure (cybersecuritynews.com)

~ 20 pts 1 comments by unknown Apr 4, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Internet / Digital Culture thread

Life altering PostgreSQL patterns

~ 35 pts 35 comments by unknown Mar 27, 2025 ~compprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)

~ 39 pts 8 comments by unknown Mar 20, 2025 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

[SOLVED] I filled up my VM with Nextcloud all in one (Docker) to the brim. Help me rescue it.

~ 10 pts 4 comments by unknown Mar 8, 2025 ~comp Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

The hydrant directory: A public domain design resource created from public US infrastructure (dayroselane.com)

~ 8 pts 0 comments by unknown Mar 7, 2025 ~design Data / Databases / Infrastructure Design / UX / Visualization thread

I went to SQL injection court (sockpuppet.org)

~ 13 pts 1 comments by unknown Feb 25, 2025 ~society Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Only about 40% of the Ted Cruz "woke science" US database is woke science (astralcodexten.com)

~ 18 pts 44 comments by unknown Feb 15, 2025 ~society Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread