Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will bar people under 16 from major social platforms. Christensen and Mackinnon…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary Reader-contributed tale from ~2012: a part-time DBA (“Derek”) managed two MySQL instances in symmetrical replication…
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers experienced wildly inflated cost forecasts and a flood of budget alerts after an account migration.…
White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty Summary The White House issued an executive order on 28 August that added NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. The move…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time steward of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building needlessly complex solutions that…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia — a largely empty, troubled megaproject — to attend Network…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines on Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the Communications…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary The plaintiff argues that Amazon Prime Video labels certain digital purchases as “buy” even though they…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers experienced alarming budget alerts after a problematic account migration caused cost forecasts to spike. Automated…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The long-standing US “de minimis” duty exemption that let low‑value international parcels enter the country without tariffs has been ended. The…
