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A collection of 41 issues

AI’s Runaway Capex Raises Questions, Signifies Big Changes Ahead

Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, and Meta were among the companies posting quarterly financial results this week. (Amazon will report next week.) The market responded enthusiastically to results from Google and Microsoft, but Meta’s results aroused ambivalence followed by deep concern. Beyond the respective revenues and earnings of the technology behemoths

Time Sensitive: A Quick Turn on IBM’s Reported Acquisitive Interest in HashiCorp

Okay, I’d better type fast because “unnamed (but familiar and knowledgeable) sources” are up to mischief again. Whenever these anonymous, well-placed chatterboxes leak allegedly impending news to select journalists, especially those employed at high-profile publications of the business press, you know that something is sure to happen, even if

The Datacenter Energy Crunch: More Opportunity Than Threat

Lately, I’ve spent some of my now-copious free time pondering the future of datacenters, suddenly pressured by AI to quicken their evolutionary pace. As you may have heard, AI is notorious for its voracious appetite for energy and its unquenchable thirst for water. Today’s post is relatively brief,

Big Tech Sheds Office Space, Intensifying a Trend with Other Tech Consequences

When reading articles and doing research, the goal is obviously to clearly understand the information you receive. If you’re serious about learning and gaining knowledge, however, you also consider what the information implies but not does state expressly. You take in the information in front of you, of course,

For Security Vendors, AI Brings New Twists to Old Narrative

This post is about cybersecurity, but I am going to begin proceedings with a relevant quote from a relatively obscure 1984 film called Flashpoint. No, this Flashpoint is not the Canadian police procedural television series of the same name, which wrapped up more than a decade ago; nor is it

The Case Against the Lock-in Fixation

Thoughts on Cisco’s Isovalent Acquisition, Open-Source Motives, and the New Tech Austerity

It was inevitable that networking’s journey would become not only software-defined, not only software-driven, but reach an apotheosis of developer-driven software, period. With eBPF, networking and software merge seamlessly.

On Intel’s Past, Present, and Future

Intel clung tenaciously to what made it great in an earlier era, and now it finds itself a diminished presence, struggling to regain lost dominance.