At the NICAR 2026 conference, dozens of leading data journalists shared some of their favorite digital tools and databases for investigating numerous topics.

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced a new charging protocol is in place to prosecute ICE agents that break the law. The new protocol applies to cases involving a death, ...

Abstract: The rapid deployment of emerging networks, such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, has generated massive amounts of data. Data streaming is significant among these various data ...

The Labor Department on Wednesday publicly unveiled a modernized open data portal that it said would provide more granular access to U.S. workforce statistics. In a press release, the agency said the ...

Renee Pruneau Novakoff served for over forty years in the Department of Defense and several Intelligence agencies to include NSA, CIA, ODNI, and DIA. Her last assignment was in the Office of the ...

Adguard VPN is a commercial VPN solution, but the company has decided to open-source the VPN protocol and named it TrustTunnel. It’s described as a modern, secure, mobile-optimized VPN protocol. Since ...

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According to DeepLearning.AI, the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has launched the Science Context Protocol (SCP), an open-source standard designed to let AI agents plan, execute, and ...

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...

Google’s new open commerce standard aims to reduce cart abandonment and enable agent-led buying across Search, Gemini, and retailer systems. Google today unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) ...