Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionise — 3,500 Microsoft Workers Now Unionised Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to unionise under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), making…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary An Ars Technica–reported lawsuit alleges Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling time-limited streaming licences as…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Content Summary A problematic Microsoft account migration caused Azure’s cost forecasts to jump wildly for some customers, triggering automated budget…
EU To Boost Satellite Defences Against GPS Jamming, Defence Commissioner Says Summary The European Union plans to strengthen its satellite defences to counter GPS jamming, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has ended the long-standing de minimis duty exemption that let low-value international parcels enter without tariffs. Previously raised to…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar under‑16s from accounts on major social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New data from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) show a sharp rise in applications to the…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary Reader-contributed tale from The Register: around 2012, a part-time DBA (“Derek”) looked after two MySQL…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers received wildly inflated cost forecasts and automated budget alerts after an account migration from the…
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. That change…
