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A collection of 39 issues

Amid the Purgatory of HPE’s Uncertain Juniper Acquisition

I haven’t paid a visit to the networking neighborhood for a while, partly because networking, while essential as IT infrastructure, seems a little beside the point when the overall industry and the larger world is teetering on the edge of feral madness. I ask myself, and no longer in

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.

WEF's "Future of Jobs Report" Reveals Only One Certainty

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,

New Report Corroborates Surging Energy Consumption in AI Datacenters

Musk’s Empire: Why Tesla Might Suffer from Rise of SpaceX

Intel’s Board Deserves Its Share of Blame for the Company’s Long Decline

Dell Warns that AI Ascent Will Not Be Linear