Amazon US Prime Sign-Ups Slow Despite Expanded Promotion, Data Shows Summary Reuters-obtained internal data reviewed by the news agency shows Amazon registered about 5.4 million U.S. Prime sign-ups over the…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will, from December, bar people under 16 from having accounts on major…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New data from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) show applications have surged while the number of…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence notes a rapid chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in Guangdong province, China, with more than 7,000 reported cases since July…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary The correspondence highlights the large climate consequences of infrastructure damage, using the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline ruptures — which released about 465,000…
Veterinarians need to be part of West Nile disease storytelling Summary This correspondence piece argues that veterinarians must be central to how we communicate about West Nile virus (WNV) as…
Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter probe has identified two distinct groups of solar energetic electron (SEE) events — those tied to intense solar flares and those associated with…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader, anonymised as “Derek”, worked as a part-time DBA for a company that ran…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building over‑engineered, hard‑to‑change systems –…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by wildly inflated cost forecasts after accounts were migrated from the Microsoft Online…
