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Cloud
A collection of 65 issues
Annihilation or Utopia? AI Likely to Land Somewhere Between the Two Extremes
A couple recent articles got my attention, and I thought I’d offer thoughts with which you might enthusiastically agree or vehemently disagree. Either reaction is acceptable. The only unacceptable reaction would be apathy and indifference. We’re here to think critically, not to sleepwalk.
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Nvidia’s Results Were Good, But the Market is Full to Bursting
Super Micro Dodges Delisting Bullet, but Questions Remain
Forget the Asteroid in 2032 — Worry About the Here and Now
I am not among the people concerned about an asteroid, charmingly named 2024 YR4, that is reportedly hurtling through space on a collision course for Earth. Astronomers and physicists estimate that the space rock, which measures from 130 to 300 feet (a wide variance), has about a 1.5% probability
Juniper CEO Rami Rahim is Right When He Says the DoJ is Wrong
Did Juniper CEO Rami Rahim reach out to SDxCentral for an interview, or was the approach from the latter to the former? The answer to that question doesn’t negate anything that Rahim said in an article published by SDxCentral, but it would be interesting to know the answer.
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And Now for A Very Different Take on the DeepSeek Cause Célèbre
A media storm raged in the wake of news that China’s DeepSeek open-source AI models were capable of equaling or surpassing the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is decidedly not open source.
In the past few days, arguably too much has been written and said about the emergence
Quantum Mania: Amid the Present Puffery, A Seemingly Bright Future
You could say that it’s the best of times, the worst of times, and practically the non-existent times for quantum computing. The sentence I’ve just typed is paradoxical, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The information-technology industry seems to be forming a consensus that quantum computing
The Danger Zone: When Societies Struggle to Adapt to Technological Change
I’ve thought a lot lately about how previous generations, during prior periods of major technological change, dealt with being caught between the tectonic plates of past, present, and future.
Most of us assume, I believe, that tomorrow will be much like today. For the most part, that’s true.
When We Cannot Know: Considering the Suspenseful Case of Super Micro
Today we will look back and look forward. We'll recall a dark tale of a notorious mining company – no longer among the corporate living – and we'll compare and contrast what happened back then with what is happening and might happen at server vendor Super Micro. Fortunately,