Google, which joined the Open Cloud Coalition, denies its offer of €100M+ in incentives to CISPE was linked to CISPE's antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Paul Kunert / The Register : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision
Update Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : UK CMA and US FTC Are Investigating Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI (UPDATED) Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Microsoft's investment in OpenAI faces antitrust scrutin...
In Q2, IDC estimates global PC shipments grew 4.7% to 64.9M units; Gartner estimates 1.5% growth to 63M units; both say Windows 10 refresh contributed to gain
but they don't agree what a PC is Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware : Gartner: US Tariffs on China Could Significantly Drive up Laptop Prices Paul Lilly / PC Gamer : PC shipments get ‘back on track’ rig...
Sources: Chinese spies inserted tiny chips onto products from US-based motherboard giant Supermicro to infiltrate ~30 US companies including Amazon and Apple
There's recent news about some really interesting hardware implants. Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare : The China SuperMicro Hack: About That Bloomberg Report Andrew Marino / The Verge : Vergecast: Chinese s...
Sources: IBM to reassign up to 30% of the ~103,000 staff in its Global Technology Services wing this year, resulting in job cuts through attrition of ~10,100
Paul Kunert / The Register :
HPE CEO Meg Whitman announces several organizational changes, including the departure of CTO Martin Fink
Again James Niccolai / Network World : HPE's CTO is leaving amid more change at the company Julie Bort / Business Insider : Meg Whitman is reorganizing Hewlett Packard Enterprise, just 9 months after ...