Mark Kember

Rules on media coverage during by-elections: During an election period, political parties and independent candidates must be given due weight across a broadcaster’s TV and radio coverage. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Was not expecting that last sentence.

Piece on the future for MySQL here: www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/m... Could be forks, or could be Oracle supporting more community involvement. Expect more developments at #FOSDEM

Today is a "I'm going to eat the crisps and there's nothing you can do about it world" kind of day. Ready salted, if you are wondering.

I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it. (Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.) Thanks to @maliciarogue.bsky.social for having me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...

So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.

Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange: "When's copy approval due?"

The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

1) Would this be useful? 2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one? 3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?

Everything is fine dot GIF

Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ... You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?

I'm currently running a poll on LinkedIn, does 'pulling the plug', or taking servers and systems offline, stop an attack and an attacker in their steps? I would love your vote here - www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ra...

And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus. Kuber- net- es at the edge!

Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.

Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"

scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

As the head of new threat group 'Vicious Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse', I intend to monetise my Ransomeware campaigns where I overwrite critical business documents with excerpts of Swallows and Amazons.

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The Spectrum / Amstrad game for Dan Dare in the 1980s was banging. Recently got one of the old strips out as a collected edition from our local library. It held up pretty well.

SINGS: On my way to KubeCon / On my way to KubeCon / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) Developing cloud-native / Containers de-mon-strat-ive / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) My cloud it will be sovereign / Even if it leads to some pain / Fa la la la / La la la la (OI!) ETC. might see you there

Sharing this as a lovely piece of writing around open tech, taking a stance and being willing to work on things: ratfactor.com/tech-nope

The direct line from military marching band instrument design, to the sax line in Ace of Base, All That She Wants.

A positive news story in the security industry today - eSentire awards its latest student bursary and announces ten years of running its SOC in Cork. www.techcentral.ie/sean-henness...

Piece on how to use both internal information and external data as part of your security approach. Comes after the launch of the Cyber Monitoring Centre earlier this month.

How much can we save by divesting ourselves from gold braid?

Tired: Client announces customer Wired: Customer announces they are a client. Aston Villa FC announces the club is using eSentire for security: www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/fe...

Session on open source in the public sector within the Global South - Paula Hunter of Mojaloop Foundation on where funding comes from, how open source development model is understood, and the future for folding this back into the wider open source community - digital and data sovereignty #soocon25

Open source and forking - what does the data tell us? @geekygirldawn.bsky.social of CHAOSS provides an overview of the impact that a fork has had on three projects - ElasticSearch / OpenSearch; Terraform / OpenTofu; Redis / Valkey. Full data is at github.com/chaoss/wg-da... #soocon25

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So much going on today - geopolitics, code support and what people think collide, with much bigger consequences for tech.

PR Week: Will DeepSeek shake-up AI in PR? Me: Can I just shout Betteridge's Law at this? www.prweek.co.uk/article/1904...