Though the Trump administration claims Massachusetts is a “sanctuary state,” some local police cooperate with ICE routinely. The relationships vary town by town, and departments largely decide for ...

The Daily News reported in September that two then-unnamed Framingham police officers were placed on paid administrative leave due to alleged misconduct. In a statement, police said at the time that ...

Billions of dollars in unclaimed property are sitting in Massachusetts accounts, and some of that cash has people’s names on ...

Even after hospitals strip out names and zip codes, modern AI can sometime still work out who patients are. Great news for insurance companies; not so much for healthcare recipients. New research from ...

Access to housing assistance for tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents could be in jeopardy as federal officials eye potential changes to eligibility requirements, ...

In the first year of the Labor Department's Retirement Savings Lost and Found database, 29.5% of users found an old workplace plan that might owe them money.

A Massachusetts bill would require annual audits of “owed” DNA from convicted felons, closing gaps in a key crime-solving database that advocates say have left survivors without justice and ...

Legal experts say states have constitutional authority over elections as the Trump administration seeks sensitive voter information from nearly every state.

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Last night New Englanders were gifted two heavenly spectacles— a major Patriots win, followed by inches of snow. Tonight, a different kind could be in store, as forecasts predict the Northern Lights ...

How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models (LLMs)? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years ...

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