Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ devs unionise — now 3,500 unionised Microsoft workers Summary The Diablo development team at Blizzard — more than 450 people across multiple disciplines — have voted to form…
The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending Summary The longstanding US de minimis duty-free import exemption that let many international parcels enter without tariffs has been eliminated. Previously raised…
Summary A problematic Microsoft account migration caused Azure’s cost-forecasting system to wildly overestimate customer spending, triggering automated budget alerts for multiple users. Reports on support forums and a The Register…
Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — a long-running public resource for climate science — effectively lost its production team earlier in 2025 when staff were dismissed and the…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a sparsely populated, troubled megaproject off Malaysia, to attend Network School…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary The Diablo development team at Blizzard has voted to unionise under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), with over…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A plaintiff has sued Amazon Prime Video, alleging the service misleads customers by labelling long-term streaming…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and principal maintainer of the PHP framework Laravel, warns developers against building “cathedrals of complexity” —…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate information site climate.gov — long a public source of climate-science data and explanation — has had…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have converged on Forest City, Malaysia — a largely empty Chinese-built megaproject — to attend Network…
