Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Key Points • Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar people under 16 from many major social platforms (Instagram,…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary Between 2017–18 and 2024–25, applications to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) rose from 16,355 to 29,927,…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary The authors respond to the Nord Stream natural-gas pipeline ruptures (September 2022), which released about 465,000 tonnes of methane, and argue that the…
How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another Summary Steven C. Currall argues that academic–industry partnerships, especially with large technology firms, can be highly productive but are also…
Disney agrees to $10 million settlement for collecting data from children Summary The Federal Trade Commission announced that Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations it collected personal data…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA (referred to as “Derek”) managed two MySQL instances in Boston and Malta…
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, removing federal collective…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by wildly incorrect cost forecasts and consequent budget alerts after an account migration…
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 creating overly clever, hard-to-change code…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary The Register reports that in a reader poll of more than 1,500 participants, 93% backed…
