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Find XO: 838 Stores Leaving VMware, Migration Market Opened by Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
SummaryThe US convenience store chain Sheetz is moving 11,000 virtual machines across 838 stores from VMware to StorMagic. Broadcom's bundled subscription conversion and a 5-year contract were the triggers.…
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Find XO: After Chips, It's Electricity: The Energy IPO Surge Opens Doors for Founders (arstechnica.com)
SummaryUS energy companies raised $12.6 billion through public offerings in the first half of this year. This is the largest amount since 1999 for the first half of the year, but two-thirds of new listings…
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Find XO: The real reason Tesco is removing 40,000 servers from VMware: even with perpetual licenses, they are pushed into subscriptions (arstechnica.com)
SummaryTesco is removing 40,000 server workloads from VMware. They bought perpetual licenses in 2021, but after Broadcom's acquisition, they faced a 175% price increase and were charged $23.5 million per ye…
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Find XO: U.S. Government Makes $2 Billion Direct Equity Investment in 9 Quantum Computing Firms, Becoming a Startup Shareholder (arstechnica.com)
SummaryAccording to Ars Technica, the U.S. government is investing a total of $2 billion in equity, not grants, across nine quantum computing companies. The initial beneficiaries are government-selected fir…
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Find XO: LLMs Make Fuzzing Harnesses Obsolete: Why AI Security Test Automation Unicorns Emerge (arstechnica.com)
SummaryAnthropic's Mythos Preview discovered 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, and around the same time, XBOW became a unicorn with a $155 million Series C funding. The investment rationale is that instea…
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