UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Summary The UK Home Office has raised its planned maximum spend on external data and technology…
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown Summary A RAID failure knocked the public Matrix.org homeserver offline, forcing engineers to perform a full 55 TB PostgreSQL snapshot restore…
Summer 2025 is the Warmest on Record for the UK Key Points • The Met Office confirms summer 2025 (1 June–31 August) had a mean temperature of 16.10°C, 1.51°C above…
Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing ‘Cathedrals of Complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers about over‑engineering and bypassing framework conventions. In…
New Study Proves EVs Are Always Cleaner Than Gas Cars Summary The University of Michigan published a lifecycle analysis (cradle-to-grave) and an online calculator that compares greenhouse‑gas emissions for different…
Google Gets To Keep Chrome But Is Barred From Exclusive Search Deals, Judge Rules Summary A U.S. federal judge, Amit Mehta, issued a ruling in the Department of Justice’s antitrust…
SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’ Summary SAP plans to invest more than 20 billion euros (about $23 billion) over the next decade to build and…
Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70% Summary Google Chrome extended its lead in the browser market in August 2025, reaching 70.25% of desktop share according to Statcounter…
Disney agrees to $10 million settlement for collecting data from children Summary The Federal Trade Commission says Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations that it collected personal data…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary An executive order issued at the end of August added NASA to the National Security Exclusions list, removing federal collective bargaining…
