A massive, 10+ hour outage that took down CME Group’s markets was caused by a basic procedural failure. Onsite staff didn’t properly drain cooling towers ahead of freezing temps, overloading the system.
It’s a packed week for open-source news. Steam’s Linux share hits a record 3.2%, Linux Mint 22.3 is on the horizon, and FreeBSD 15 makes a major leap. Plus, a critical KDE Connect warning you need to hear.
Get ready for more expensive laptops. According to a new report, Dell and Lenovo are planning significant price increases, blaming component shortages driven by massive AI data center spending. The timing couldn’t be worse for the annual CES product refresh cycle.
A prominent Intel Fellow and Linux performance engineer has resigned from the company. His departure comes after he created a detailed, internal-only strategy with 33 specific recommendations for Intel to “win back the cloud” business.
A thought-provoking article frames true market segmentation not as a simple matrix exercise but as a complex, almost tensor-like challenge. The author argues it’s a fundamentally human, analog discipline that requires multidisciplinary thinking, not just algorithms.
Following the removal of apps like ICEBlock last October, the House Committee on Homeland Security is demanding answers. The companies have until December 12 to brief lawmakers on their efforts to screen for such tools.
Federal safety regulators have identified dozens of new complaints about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software violating traffic laws. The investigation is now focused on whether the system can accurately detect and respond to road signs and signals.
A major supply crunch for DRAM and NAND flash memory is about to hit consumers in the wallet. Major PC makers like Dell and Lenovo are preparing significant price increases across their lineups, some as soon as this month.
Microsoft is hiking prices for most Microsoft 365 business and enterprise subscriptions. The increases start July 1 and follow the recent end of volume discounts.
AWS made dozens of AI announcements at its re:Invent conference, pitching agents and models as an inflection point. But with 95% of enterprises not seeing ROI on AI, the cloud giant might be running ahead of its customers. Its strength may still lie in the underlying infrastructure.
