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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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CES 2022 will introduce HDMI 2.1a, another confusing new spec

The Verge

That’s because the HDMI Forum and HDMI Licensing Administrator (the two organizations that define and license out HDMI standards, respectively) run the standards as a set that contains all the previous standards. As TFTCentral explains , according to the HDMI Licensing Administrator, now that HDMI 2.1 exists, there is no HDMI 2.0

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Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud

The Verge

While developers have been able to turn to companies like Macstadium to host macOS instances previously, Apple’s licensing agreement for macOS has always been a bit of a grey area. Apple made this a lot clearer recently with an update to the license agreement for Big Sur.

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Switch hacker Gary W. Bowser given 40-month sentence, owes Nintendo $14.5M

GeekWire

Nintendo of America announced Thursday that one member of the Team Xecuter hacker group has been sentenced to 40 months behind bars for his role in his group’s creation and sale of tools used to pirate video games for the Nintendo Switch. That license has, of course, been hacked.). (Nintendo Photo).

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Nvidia says its ‘proprietary information’ is being leaked by hackers

The Verge

Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked. We request that NVIDIA commits to COMPLETELY OPEN-SOURCE (and distribute under a foss license) their GPU drivers”.

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Tech leaders discuss generative AI’s impact on enterprise, startups and society

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Madrona Venture Group investor Aseem Datar met with about 30 startups in the past week — and all pitched AI tools. Batalov touted Amazon’s Code Whisperer , which offers a tool that vets AI-generated code and provides links to sources, while also checking for licensing requirements.

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Microsoft cloud revenue up 22%, Windows business plunges 27% in first report since job cuts

GeekWire

billion, including a decline of 39% in revenue from versions of Windows licensed to computer manufacturers. billion for the quarter, or 12 cents a share, to account for severance packages for laid-off employees, the cost of exiting real estate leases, and unspecified changes in its hardware portfolio. Windows revenue fell 27% to $4.8

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