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Dec 31, 2025

 
Data center infrastructure evolution

The appropriate selection of materials plays a critical and defining role in the efficacy of direct-to-chip liquid cooling solutions.

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Reviewing the past year reveals how the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, coupled with evolving power realities and geopolitical tensions, fundamentally reshaped the digital infrastructure landscape and coverage priorities.

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nvidia groq speculation

Speculation surrounds Nvidia's substantial licensing and talent acquisition deal with AI chip startup Groq, suggesting the investment goes beyond typical licensing to secure cutting-edge technology and engineering expertise.

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Was Nvidia's major investment in Groq primarily a defensive move to secure access to scarce AI inference chip capacity?

 

Duos Edge Expansion

Duos Edge AI is expanding its secure edge infrastructure offerings into the Midwest and Texas markets.

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servicenow co-ceo

ServiceNow's extended employment contract for CEO Bill McDermott includes provisions for a potential future co-CEO structure, mirroring similar arrangements at other major technology firms, though no immediate leadership transition is planned.

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Chatter
The view from Reddit
“Security scans and backported fixes ignorance”

The narrator expresses deep frustration over external security auditors who rigidly insist on the latest software version numbers, ignoring the reality that enterprise Linux distributions apply critical security patches via backporting.

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“VMware now threatening outages to perpetual license holders”

After letting a support contract lapse on perpetual licenses, an IT department faced aggressive scare tactics from VMware/Broadcom representatives demanding immediate renewal or threatening license deactivation, ultimately forcing a reluctant, discounted one-year subscription purchase while planning an infrastructure migration.

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Should customers accept renewal threats as standard vendor negotiation tactics for mission-critical software?

“I just saved our company by unplugging and plugging it in again.”

A sysadmin, recovering from a doctor's visit, managed to restore a critical, non-booting server by performing the ultimate IT ritual—a power cycle—leading to exasperation over the lack of fundamental troubleshooting by others.

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