Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

“In January 2026 Broadcom signaled the termination of its VMware Cloud Service Provider program in Europe,” CIPSE said in a ...

An early Indigenous site may not be early, but it doesn’t really matter

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...

Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

Valve’s Steam Machine desktop is currently in a state of involuntary limbo, driven by historically awful pricing and availability for memory and storage chips. AI data centers are absorbing much of ...

Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers

Provide always-on data center services around the planet. Now, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has done something similar with a filing to the Federal Communications Commission of his own, ...
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Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” Reuters said the phone is ...

RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept’s expert panels

In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, ...

There’s no sudden acceleration problem with Tesla, feds say

The last petition regarding Teslas and sudden unintended acceleration involved claims regarding a voltage spike in the car’s inverter. Not so here—Costas Lakafossis presented NHTSA with a lengthy ...

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Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport ...
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Counter-Strike 2’s new reload system could upend the entire game

For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this ...