The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing a sharp mismatch between demand and funding. Applications climbed…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary The authors respond to the Nord Stream ruptures (September 2022), which released roughly 465,000 tonnes of methane, to argue that protecting infrastructure must…
Disney agrees to $10 million settlement for collecting data from children Summary The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations it…
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 deliver major benefits but are also…
Corruption case against ousted cyber chief is ‘revenge,’ Ukraine’s security service says Summary The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accuses the National Anti‑Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader (anonymised as “Derek”) recounts how working as a part-time DBA for a company…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers saw automated budget alerts and forecasts spike dramatically after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft…
Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has distinguished two classes of Solar Energetic Electron (SEE) events by tracing the origin of superfast electrons close to the Sun. One class…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building “cathedrals of complexity” — clever,…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary Register readers overwhelmingly back reducing reliance on Microsoft across the UK public sector after the…
