Summary Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act will bar under-16s from accounts on major social-media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. The authors (Helen Christensen and Andrew Mackinnon) argue…
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”) looked after two MySQL instances — one in Boston…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has publicly criticised Universal Music Group (UMG) after receiving a flurry…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US government climate science site climate.gov were dismissed earlier in 2025 and the site has…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, a largely empty Chinese-built megaproject in Malaysia, to attend Network School…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary Ars Technica (via Slashdot) reports a California lawsuit claiming Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling…
Summary Over 450 developers from Blizzard’s Diablo team have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), becoming the fourth major Blizzard team to unionise. The…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show a sharp rise in applications to the national…
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 having accounts on major social platforms.…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader, “Derek”, worked as a part-time DBA for a firm running two MySQL instances…
