Y. Wang et al. reply
Y. Wang et al. reply Summary This short reply, published in Nature, responds to two Matters Arising critiques (Hoang et al. and Sheil et al.) of the authors’ earlier work…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions
Matt Asay, writing in InfoWorld and highlighted on Slashdot, argues that corporate contributions underpin much of modern open source infrastructure. Using empirical commit and kernel data, he points to heavy…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Seagate’s security teams in Singapore and Malaysia, working with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur in…
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities Summary Over the past year a noticeable number of Brazilian PhD students who had planned to conduct research in the United…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version Summary Redis 8.2 is now generally available and returns to a recognised free/open-source licence (AGPL). The release emphasises performance and…
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops – even after thin client costs
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops – even after thin client costs Summary Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) finds that hosted desktops are frequently cheaper to…
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns Summary Australia will fund two datacentres in Vanuatu as part of a new security pact, the “Nakamal Agreement”. The deal…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one Summary The Linux kernel is extraordinary: vast in scope, stable, and widely deployed from microcontrollers to…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary A lone hospital sysadmin discovered that a CT scanner and its viewing workstation, which sat only three metres apart,…
Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don’t want – here’s what we actually need
Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don’t want – here’s what we actually need Summary The Register’s opinion piece argues that Microsoft has stuffed Windows with unwanted features —…