Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image? Summary Felice Frankel reviews Anika Burgess’s book Flashes of Brilliance, a celebration of early photography that explores how images have…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing a big rise in applications but only a small…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader (Regomized as “Derek”) recounts a 2012 incident when he, a part-time DBA, managed…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw their forecasted cloud costs leap by hundreds of percent after an account migration glitch.…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has for the first time clearly separated solar energetic electron (SEE) events…
Rick Beato, a well-known music educator and YouTuber, says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing a wave of Content ID claims and copyright strikes against his channel — including…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan recounted a recent one-off attempt to write a Rust programme during a public talk. Despite his…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US government climate information portal climate.gov was dismissed earlier in 2025 and the site has…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary A group of nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City (a largely unfinished megaproject near Singapore) to attend…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America…
