I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader (Regomized as “Derek”) recounts a 2012 incident when he, a part-time DBA, managed…
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 clearly separated solar energetic electron (SEE) events…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Tech billionaire Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million (≈$169.6m) programme at the University of Oxford to apply artificial…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw their forecasted cloud costs leap by hundreds of percent after an account migration glitch.…
Rick Beato, a well-known music educator and YouTuber, says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing a wave of Content ID claims and copyright strikes against his channel — including…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary The Washington Post reports a string of false active-shooter reports that targeted about a dozen US universities as students…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to apply a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan recounted a recent one-off attempt to write a Rust programme during a public talk. Despite his…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The article reports that AI-driven web crawlers are generating a growing share of internet traffic and, in…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US government climate information portal climate.gov was dismissed earlier in 2025 and the site has…
