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Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech

Tue, 2025-08-26 04:29
Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions

+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…

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VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps

Tue, 2025-08-26 00:46
Because AI, like everything else this year

EXCLUSIVE VMware will port its flagship hypervisor and Cloud Foundation suite to the Arm processor architecture.…

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Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning

Mon, 2025-08-25 22:47
GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency

Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…

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Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

Mon, 2025-08-25 22:28
10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape

Comment We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.…

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VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’

Mon, 2025-08-25 22:05
The CEO of VMware’s most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what’s gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better

In the 20 months since Broadcom took over VMware, Yves Sandfort has become the most ardent and prolific commentator on the acquisition. The CEO of Germany-headquartered VMware partner Comdivision Consulting has created almost 300 videos and still has plenty to say about where VMware went wrong, and where Broadcom needs to improve.…

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Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB

Mon, 2025-08-25 20:20
PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…

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xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

Mon, 2025-08-25 18:02
Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew

Elon Musk's xAI and X businesses have shown a bad case of the Mondays by launching an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI that claims the duo are trying to stifle competition in the mobile machine-intelligence world.…

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Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

Mon, 2025-08-25 15:55
Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700?

US government websites are getting an aesthetic and functional overhaul under a Trump executive order and a new "America by Design" initiative headed by a Silicon Valley veteran and DOGE insider. …

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The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

Mon, 2025-08-25 13:19
Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be

Opinion There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."…

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