Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers experienced wildly inflated cost forecasts and a flood of budget alerts after an account migration.…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary The White House issued an executive order on 28 August that added NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. The move…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A Microsoft-backed research team, originally spun out of the University of Southampton as Lumenisity, has published a Nature Photonics paper…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time steward of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building needlessly complex solutions that…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers and creative professionals are increasingly being hired to clean up and polish imperfect generative AI outputs —…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has quietly confirmed that it automatically scans ChatGPT conversations and routes those flagged for potential violence or…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia — a largely empty, troubled megaproject — to attend Network…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary The article reports that Oliver McCann, a 37‑year‑old Brit who says he has “no…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary The plaintiff argues that Amazon Prime Video labels certain digital purchases as “buy” even though they…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines on Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the Communications…
