The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has ended the long-standing de minimis duty exemption that let low-value international parcels enter without tariffs. The threshold —…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Some Microsoft Azure customers were hit by wildly incorrect budget alerts after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate-science site climate.gov — long a public resource — had its production team dismissed earlier in 2025…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary About 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia, to attend Network School — an initiative led by Balaji…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize — Over 3,500 Microsoft Workers Now Unionised Summary Over 450 members of Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A complaint filed against Amazon Prime Video argues that the platform misleads customers by labelling long-term…
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire
Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire Summary Microsoft Azure account migration appears to have caused incorrect forecast cost calculations for a number of customers, triggering automated…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The US has ended the long-standing de minimis duty exemption that allowed low-value international parcels to enter without import duties. The…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar under-16s from accounts on major social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube).…
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 (an increase of ~83%), while the number of awards increased by only about…