A Dutch appeals court has ruled that Oracle and Salesforce must continue defending a class-action lawsuit involving the use of cookies to collect and track personal information for their data management platforms. The case, brought by The Privacy Collective, a Dutch nonprofit focused on consumer privacy, centers around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in … Read more
AMD is set to release a new line of AM5 motherboards for its upcoming desktop CPU series, codenamed Granite Ridge. The exact name of the Ryzen series has not been officially confirmed yet, but Gigabyte mentioned it in a press release. This change for the upcoming motherboard line is similar to what Intel has done … Read more
In the ongoing AI chip wars, another stock may emerge as the biggest winner. Microsoft recently announced that it will be offering its cloud computing customers the option to use MI300X AI chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as an alternative to NVIDIA’s H100 Graphics Processing Units (GPU). This move by Microsoft raises the question … Read more
Microsoft has announced its plans to phase out Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024, replacing it with more advanced alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. This decision comes after the tech giant initially announced its deprecation plan in October 2023. VBScript was first introduced by Microsoft in 1996 as a scripting language … Read more
News Post-VMware Buy, Broadcom Kills Perpetual Licenses in Favor of Subscriptions Broadcom is discontinuing sales of perpetual licenses for over a dozen VMware products, the company announced this week. The move comes less than a month after the completion of Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization giant for a reported $69 billion. The end of perpetual … Read more