Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary A recent account migration at Microsoft Azure appears to have miscalculated forecast costs for some customers, triggering a flurry…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City (a largely unoccupied megaproject in Malaysia) to attend Network School —…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers who work on Blizzard’s Diablo franchise have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary An Ars Technica report explains a recently filed lawsuit alleging Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Microsoft Azure customers reported a chaotic few days after an account migration glitch caused the platform’s cost forecasting to…
EU To Boost Satellite Defences Against GPS Jamming, Defence Commissioner Says Summary The European Commission says it will strengthen satellite defences after an incident in which the GPS on European…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has ended the long-standing de minimis duty-free import exemption that let many international parcels enter without tariffs (the threshold…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The article is a comment by Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon outlining how Australia’s forthcoming Online Safety Amendment…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary The UK national funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing far more applications while…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader known as “Derek” shares a Who, Me? tale about running part‑time as a…
