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The NHS is drawing a hard line on patient privacy. England's national health service has launched a nationwide campaign warning staff that browsing medical records without legal justification could mean dismissal or even jail time. The crackdown follows high-profile cases involving records of crime victims, and signals that curiosity alone is no longer a defensible excuse.
Shifting to the world of databases, DoltHub has released version two of Dolt, its open-source SQL database that treats data the way Git treats code. The major update brings automatic storage cleanup and compression built right in, along with better handling of large and vector data types. For teams who want full version history on their data without manual housekeeping, this is a meaningful step forward.
And in compiler news, a technical deep dive is making rounds arguing that neither GCC nor Clang fully conform to the C plus plus standard. That claim lands with real weight given how much of the world's software runs on one of those two compilers. The piece raises uncomfortable questions about the gap between what the standard says and what production toolchains actually do.
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