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Gurman on HomeView: ‘Finished Units Have Been Sitting Boxed Up in Warehouses for the Better Part of a Year’

Mark Gurman, today, in his weekly Power On column for Bloomberg (gift link): Without a serviceable version of the new assistant, Apple couldn’t deliver the experience it had envisioned.

5h ago ·bloomberg.com

Halo is the new Doom and most software will soon be effectively open source (by force or by choice)

Seven months ago I published “Source code is now a common good, and SaaS is mostly dead.” I argued that AI had collapsed the economic cost of clean-room reimplementation, that pure software expression…

• Halo game ports to multiple platforms demonstrate software's new open-source nature
• AI agents accelerate reverse-engineering, enabling rapid independent reimplementation
• Adobe and Microsoft Office tools early open-source versions show paradigm shift

5h ago ·dev.to

A $9,400 GCP bill where $3,000 had no owner

The GCP account that took me longest to optimize wasn't the most expensive one I've worked with It was the most fragmented Eleven GCP projects. No consistent naming. No resource labels.

• $9,400 monthly GCP bill resulted from unaccounted $3,000
• $3,000 spent without visibility, identified after optimization
• $1,400 saved by pausing unused Compute Engine instances and Cloud SQL database

5h ago ·dev.to

Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out

July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant.

5h ago ·news.slashdot.org