Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government has cancelled a €10 million contract that would have seen Huawei equipment used to upgrade RedIRIS, the national…
Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar, produced under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, maps routes to government websites in 58 countries and reveals that a surprising amount…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA, anonymised as “Derek”, managed two MySQL instances in separate datacentres (Boston and…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has for the first time separated solar energetic electron (SEE) events into…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Oracle founder Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million project to apply artificial intelligence to vaccine research at the…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw forecasted cloud costs jump dramatically after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft Online Subscription…
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 designation…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A University of Southampton team, now backed by Microsoft via its acquisition of Lumenisity, reports a significant advance in hollow-core…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, warns developers against building overly clever, brittle systems…
Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register) warns that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively strip-mining the web to feed large language model training. Cloudflare estimates bots now account for roughly…
