The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show application volumes have surged while award numbers have…
Include climate impacts when protecting infrastructure Summary In a short correspondence in Nature, Hongfang Lu and Y. Frank Cheng highlight that the September 2022 ruptures of the Nord Stream natural-gas…
China’s chikungunya virus outbreak is a wake up call Summary The correspondence warns that China’s recent chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak — more than 7,000 cases reported in Guangdong province since July…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary Solar Orbiter has pinpointed where energetic electrons expelled by the Sun originate and separated events into two clear…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary In 2012 a part-time DBA, ‘Derek’, managed two MySQL instances in Boston and Malta with…
Summary The White House issued an executive order (signed 28 Aug 2025) adding NASA to the National Security Exclusions list, effectively stripping many federal labour protections from NASA staff. The…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by wildly incorrect budget forecasts after an account migration from the Microsoft Online…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, urged developers to avoid over‑engineering and “clever” solutions that…
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers Summary Huawei’s UK arm has seen revenues shrink to £188.2m for the year ended 31 December 2024, a collapse of…
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector Summary The Register ran a poll of more than 1,500 readers after the UK government confirmed…
