The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary The UK national funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing far more applications while…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader known as “Derek” shares a Who, Me? tale about running part‑time as a…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers experienced wildly incorrect cost forecasts after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft Online Subscription Program…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and lead maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against favouring clever, bespoke solutions over…
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, removing federal…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City, a mostly empty megaproject off Malaysia, to attend Network School —…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ devs unionise — 3,500 Microsoft workers now unionised Summary PC Gamer reports that over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A lawsuit filed against Amazon Prime Video argues the platform misleads customers by using the word…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary A recent Microsoft account migration appears to have triggered erroneous cost forecasts in Azure, causing automated budget alerts to…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has scrapped the long-standing de minimis duty exemption that let many small international parcels (previously valued under $800) enter…
