Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary A research initiative backed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison will invest £118 million in applying artificial intelligence to vaccine…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Several Microsoft Azure customers received wildly inaccurate budget forecasts and automated alerts after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary The White House issued an executive order on 28 August 2025 adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. That placement…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A Microsoft-supported research team (linked to the University of Southampton and Lumenisity) reports a breakthrough hollow-core fibre (HCF) design that…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and lead maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, warns developers against building overly clever, hard-to-change systems…
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins Summary Alibaba Cloud has published research it will present at SIGCOMM describing three production systems that noticeably…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary The article, citing an NBC News report, describes a growing market for freelance professionals who fix or polish…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI quietly confirmed in a blog post that it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions…
Summary The story reports that nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City, a largely undeveloped megaproject in Malaysia, to attend ‘Network School’ — an initiative by Balaji…
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 described as an “AI music creator,”…
