Henrik Kummel

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Earth-based, technologist, startup advisor, publisher at Dhalgren Editions
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For Cloud, businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/opennebula_sovereignty_interview/
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern

Interview: Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula

The Register
HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.27.2400820
Vernissage jeudi 6 novembre, galerie Marie-Claude Duchosal

And so, a quiet suspicion starts to circulate: where have the senior AWS engineers who've been to this dance before gone? And the answer increasingly is that they've left the building — taking decades of hard-won institutional knowledge about how AWS's systems work at scale right along with them.

Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

The Register

New quantum breakthrough could transform #teleportation and computing

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4180

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

The New York Times
Researchers just discovered an entirely new class of life living inside humans

Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

BGR
Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise

But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends?

The Register
travelers are dreaming forward, not looking back
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250122125752.htm
Study shows travelers are dreaming forward, not looking back

When it comes to getting people to want to go places, the future is ever more lovely than the past, according to a new study. The study found that forestalgia-focused destination ads -- those that emphasize an idealized future -- are more effective at enticing travelers to click the purchase button for a vacation than ads based on fond recollections.

ScienceDaily