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This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage
Microsoft Azure DevOps, a suite of application lifecycle services, stopped working in the South Brazil region for about ten hours on Wednesday due to a basic code error. On Friday Eric Mattingly, principal software engineering manager, offered an apology for the disruption and revealed the cause of the outage: a simple typo that deleted seventeen
COVID-19 sparked huge slump in number of research jobs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) shows the number of available research jobs plummeted during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis found the number of academic roles advertised each month in Australia dropped from an average of more than 1000 roles in 2019…