Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar (under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship) maps network…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader — anonymised as “Derek” — recalls working as a part-time MySQL DBA for…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to their origins on the Sun and…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea have demonstrated a new prompt-injection attack they call “LegalPwn”: hiding adversarial instructions inside legal-style…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a growing but under‑reported cybercrime that…
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships Summary Norway has contracted for at least five British-built Type 26 (City class) frigates in a deal said to be…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Oxford Vaccine Group, led by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, will get £118 million of funding from a research group…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Several Microsoft Azure customers saw automated budget forecasts and alerts jump dramatically 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 adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. That move strips…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A University of Southampton / Microsoft-backed team (via Lumenisity) has published research demonstrating a hollow-core fibre (HCF) design with record-low…
