How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another Summary Steven C. Currall argues that industry–academic partnerships can deliver huge benefits but are often undermined by predictable cultural clashes…
FTC fines toy manufacturer for allowing Chinese third-party to collect kids’ data Summary The Justice Department, following a referral from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a complaint against Chinese…
Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply Summary UK retailer Tesco has filed suit against Broadcom (the owner of VMware) and named reseller Computacenter…
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months Summary The GNOME Foundation’s executive director, Steven Deobald, has departed less than four months after his appointment. The board described the move…
Summary The Home Office has increased the maximum expected value of a Data Services & Analytics (DSA) consultant contract from an indicative £250 million to £350 million and delayed its…
Summary A RAID failure took the public Matrix.org homeserver offline on 2 September 2025, forcing engineers to perform a full 55 TB PostgreSQL database snapshot restore and replay roughly 17…
Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC’s China chip-building effort Summary The US Commerce Department has revoked TSMC’s Verified End-User (VEU) authorisation for its Nanjing facility, effective 31 December 2025. The move…
Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate Report Summary A group of more than 85 climate scientists has issued a formal rebuttal to a recent U.S.…
Azure Arc setup tips for on-premises server management Summary Following Microsoft’s move away from adding new features to WSUS, this tutorial walks through using Azure Arc together with Azure Update…
Google Critics Think the Search Remedies Ruling is a Total Whiff Summary A recent US court ruling in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google bars exclusive search deals…
