GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months
GNOME Foundation boss exits after just four months Summary The GNOME Foundation is once again searching for an executive director after Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the…
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs Summary The Home Office has raised the maximum planned spend on external data and technology consultants…
What are the types of requirements in software engineering?
Summary This TechTarget piece by Stephen J. Bigelow explains the main types of requirements used in software engineering and best practices for writing them. It covers business requirements (BRD), user…
Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing ‘Cathedrals of Complexity’
Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing ‘Cathedrals of Complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns against overengineering and bypassing framework conventions — what…
YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren’t Watching From the Same Address
YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren’t Watching From the Same Address Summary YouTube has been pausing Premium and YouTube Music family-plan privileges for users who appear to…
Google Gets To Keep Chrome But Is Barred From Exclusive Search Deals, Judge Rules
Google Gets To Keep Chrome But Is Barred From Exclusive Search Deals, Judge Rules Summary A federal judge, Amit Mehta, ruled in the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against…
Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70%
Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70% Summary Chrome has pushed past the 70% mark in the desktop browser market, according to Statcounter data reported by Neowin and…
SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’
SAP To Invest Over 20 Billion Euros In ‘Sovereign Cloud’ Summary SAP will invest over 20 billion euros (about $23bn) across the next decade to build and expand European “sovereign…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Key Points • Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar people under 16 from many major social platforms (Instagram,…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary Between 2017–18 and 2024–25, applications to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) rose from 16,355 to 29,927,…