Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will bar under-16s from accounts on major platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube).…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary A large meta-analysis of DNA methylation across 17 human tissues has produced an open-access “epigenetic atlas”…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary Data from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) show applications climbed from 16,355 in 2017–18 to 29,927…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson reviews a selection of recent science books, highlighting accessible and provocative titles across cybercrime, extinction and empire, quantum…
Summary The Spanish government cancelled a €10 million contract that would have seen Huawei equipment deployed to upgrade RedIRIS, the national academic and research network that connects universities, research institutes…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary Rashna Kumar, under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, mapped network paths to government domains in…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader, “Derek”, recounts working as a part-time DBA for a company that ran two…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced the origin of superfast electrons emitted by the Sun and…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary A research programme funded by Larry Ellison will invest £118 million in AI-driven vaccine research at the University of…
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…
