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Presenting a Tapas Menu of Recent Tech News
Each week, we’re swamped by events and information. It’s hard to keep up. We do our best to remain apprised of what matters to us, but relevant developments can evade the notice of even the most diligent observer.
What follows are news items that caught my attention but
Treading Carefully on Oracle's AI-Inspired Growth Narrative
More than AI Recalibration Behind Layoffs at Google and Microsoft
I promised yesterday that I would deliver this post today. That's one promise kept. If somebody let you down today, it wasn't me.
Back in the sepia-toned days of my early career – when I wore a zoot suit, a skinny tie, and a gangsterish fedora on
A Brief but Terrifying Nightmare on Wall Street
I could have written about any of dozens of topics today. I was tempted, after reading for the second time Julian Barnes’ Nothing to be Frightened Of, a meditation on death and dying, to plump for death – as a subject of discourse, you understand, not as a final existential act.
Are Troubled Restaurants Canaries in the Consumer-Economy Coal Mine?
If Big Money Goes Private, Whither the Public Markets?
Cisco Touts Brighter Future Amid Current Travails
AI is Okay, but Can People Be Trusted with It?
I covered Arista’s latest quarterly financial results earlier this week, and I’ll probably comment on Cisco’s pending quarterly results, due at close of trade tomorrow, later this week. Today, though, I’m going in a different direction.
When I launched this digital shanty last August, those who