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Reports: Apple is Building Its Own Content Delivery Network

Data Center Knowledge

Apple is building its own content delivery network (CDN) to deliver services to consumers, according to reports from Dan Rayburn and The Wall Street Journal. Apple Peering CDN'

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In Controversial Study, Facebook Investigates Networks of Emotions

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Facebook recently conducted a somewhat similar study, Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks , to investigate whether changes in social news feeds can influence individuals’ moods and behaviors. In a world where billions are connected by online social networks, these findings are significant indeed.

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D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem

Network World

D-Wave published its results today , peer-reviewed in the journal Science. We have shown quantum supremacy on complex material simulation problems. And this is a first for the industry. The classical supercomputer that D-Wave benchmarked against was the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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IDG Contributor Network: Many people abandon security, risky behavior surges

Network World

Department of Commerce-operated lab recently published a report (subscription) on the subject in IEEE’s IT Professional Journal. So much so that they’re simply ignoring the blitz of annoying demands and are carrying on as imprudently as they’ve always done, according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers.

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Nutanix CEO sees multi-year opportunity after Broadcom’s VMware acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

In January 2024, The Wall Street Journal highlighted the attention Broadcom’s VMware overhaul drew from CIOs, followed by reports of pricing and reseller agreement changes. We have a TAM (total addressable market) of about $76 billion and that includes software-defined compute, storage, and networking,” Ramaswami said.

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The craziest stories of the tech sector

Network World

Network World started its Wider Net stories in 2003 in an effort to lighten up our news pages, acknowledging that there is a lot more to the world of enterprise networking and IT other than speeds and feeds of switches and routers and WAN links.

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IDG Contributor Network: Massive solar storm will ‘kill’ the internet, says space expert

Network World

Not enough is being done to protect networks from solar storms that could wipe out electric power grids and destroy satellites. Pelton, who is also a current executive board member of the International Association of Space Safety (IAASS), has published an article in Room: The Space Journal (subscription) on the subject.

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