SPICE at 40: The open-source simulator that shaped modern IC design
TL;DR SPICE, originally developed at UC Berkeley, was celebrated as a four-decade open-source success with an IEEE Milestone designation and…
Vibium: Browser automation for AI agents and human developers
TL;DR Vibium is a new browser automation tool that bundles a small Go binary with a JavaScript client to let…
NIST considered disabling NTP feeds after Boulder blackout caused clock drift
TL;DR A prolonged utility power outage at NIST’s Boulder campus disrupted the institute’s atomic time scale and prompted an attempt…
Engineer saved company money — by quietly gaming at work during reimages
TL;DR A reader recounts a story from the early 2000s in which a technician devised an in-house way to reimage…
AWS Faces Growing Pressure as Microsoft and Google Narrow Cloud Lead
TL;DR Synergy Research data shows the top three cloud providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — now account…
Atlassian’s four-year push untangles dependency hell in its PaaS
TL;DR Atlassian spent four years reducing dangerous internal dependencies after a tabletop disaster recovery exercise exposed wide recovery failures. The…
AWS adds DNS backstop to enable changes during US East region disruptions
TL;DR AWS introduced a DNS feature intended to let customers make DNS changes within 60 minutes of a disruption in…
Canadian court order could force OVH to hand European data to RCMP
TL;DR A Canadian court ordered OVHcloud’s Canadian arm to produce customer account data linked to IPs hosted on OVH servers…
GrapheneOS abandons OVHcloud servers amid concerns over French privacy stance
TL;DR GrapheneOS said it has removed its servers from France and is leaving OVHcloud, citing worries about France's approach to…