I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary In 2012 a part-time DBA, ‘Derek’, managed two MySQL instances in Boston and Malta with…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary Solar Orbiter has pinpointed where energetic electrons expelled by the Sun originate and separated events into two clear…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Tech billionaire Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million research programme at the University of Oxford to apply artificial…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by wildly incorrect budget forecasts after an account migration from the Microsoft Online…
Summary The White House issued an executive order (signed 28 Aug 2025) adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list, effectively stripping many federal labour protections from NASA staff. The…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, urged developers to avoid over‑engineering and “clever” solutions that…
In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception Summary Cisco Talos scanned the internet and found more than 1,100 Ollama servers exposed…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary The Register ran a poll of more than 1,500 readers after the UK government confirmed…
Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk Summary Ten vulnerabilities, collectively named Frostbyte10, were discovered in Copeland E2 and E3 refrigeration and facility controllers used…
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers Summary Huawei’s UK arm has seen revenues shrink to £188.2m for the year ended 31 December 2024, a collapse of…
