Exactly. If you want a seat at the table to be part of the conversation you need to be a part of the foundation.

Last I knew, about 18-24 months, and growing. With enough money you might be able able to buy someone else's earlier delivery spot, but that is not going to be more than drop in the bucket into the claimed needs of a terafab.

Many stations primarily only produce their local news/events, as everything else is acquired via syndication or the network affiliation in the evening (none of which they have a license to redistribute to those outside their DMA).

I could imagine in some locations (I am thinking locations like closely located single family residences) having extra "hands" could result in additional deliveries per hour, which means higher revenue for the DSPs. Maybe some MDUs, too.

The local broadcasters claim (and they are probably not wrong), that they could not survive without the re-transmission fees they receive from the TV companies, because they built their business finances around those fees (and those fees are only going to continue to go up).

However, one should ask if the local broadcasters need to survive in their current form. And their continued fee increases may eventually price themselves out of a business.

50GB of free VPN data is not a lot. Looks to be a way to convince users to upgrade to the Mozilla VPN paid service ("the first 50GB is free").

Maybe never, but they might not offer what you are looking for. The firefox VPN endpoints will be in the same geographic locations as the users, so as geoblocking bypass protections may not need to be applied.

That would be his birth name. He has apparently legally changed his name to David Jones (and as that is a very common name in the UK that provides additional anonymity).

The largest of the PC manufacturers had long term contracts (aka memory price hedging). Those long term contracts are ending (or will end soon enough), and the memory manufacturers are now limiting the time frames of the contracts so they can capture the upside(s) due to the AI demand (and the manufacturers are also redirecting their fabs to the higher profit AI preferred memories, further reducing the availability of the classic PC memory supply).

The smaller manufactures (such as Framework) that do not have such long term contracts have already increased their memory prices at least 3 times in the last three months.

The OCP (Open Compute Project) solutions are optimized for the hyperscaler datacenters, and reuse in a home lab after retirement is not a design goal (well, unless you have a datacenter in your home). Given the demand for AI hardware (and profit to be made) the major vendors are likely prioritizing solutions that are OCP (or other hyperscaler designs) compliant, which will dry up the used market at the lower end that was a sweet spot for the home lab users.

For a company to show AI Leadership (whatever that means), the new model must leapfrog the previous released model numbers (from your competitor). Mark does not want to appear to be behind Google's previous model (it would impact his stature).

I wonder which company will figure out how to successfully game the numbers first.

For certain (3 letter?) agencies, knowing that the data always stays encrypted may be worth the trade-off of slow. Not for all situations, of course, but for very specific targeted uses.

Not going to happen (unless you add a new literacy test at the polling place). You go to the polls with the voters you have, not the ones you wish you had.

WIll the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business stop training their students to increase their CBSR score?

Bigger is always better for the enterprises that need that kind of storage (and the hyperscalers wish even larger capacity, delivered yesterday if possible).