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Richi Jennings

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Richi Jennings is a foolish independent industry analyst, editor, and content strategist. A former developer and marketer, he’s also written or edited for Computerworld, Microsoft, Cisco, Micro Focus, HashiCorp, Ferris Research, Osterman Research, Orthogonal Thinking, Native Trust, Elgan Media, Petri, Cyren, Agari, Webroot, HP, HPE, NetApp on Forbes and CIO.com. Bizarrely, his ridiculous work has even won awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, ABM/Jesse H. Neal, and B2B Magazine.
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Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO

| ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, bad recruiting, Code Assistant, DevOps hiring, google, hiring, hiring process, IPO, lay-offs, layoffs, LLM, LLMs, recruiters, Recruiting, recruitment, SoftBank, tech layoffs, tech recruiting, technical recruiting, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation ...
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Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space

| Birmingham City Council, database, database storage, England, ERP, failover, Government, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, redundancy, SAP, storage, The Long View, Toyota, UK
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space? ...
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‘Scrum == Cancer’ ¦ Plus: Linux 6.5 Ships

| agile, linux, Linux 6.5, Santiago Valdarrama, scrum, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Scrum sucks, sources say; and here comes the Linux 6.5 kernel ...
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IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!

| ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, COBOL, Code Assistant, CodeNet, DevOps and mainframes, Devops for legacy, DevOps for mainframe, DevOps on mainframe, ibm, IPO, java, Java EE, legacy, legacy applications, legacy apps, legacy code, legacy environment, legacy IT, legacy mainframe applications, legacy modernization, Legacy Software, legacy system, legacy systems, LLM, LLMs, mainframe, mainframe computers, mainframe developer, mainframe developers, mainframe development, mainframe modernization, SoftBank, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month ...
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80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!

| Hybrid Work environment, managing remote workers, microsoft, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, Secure Time Seeding, STS, The Long View, WFH, Windows Server, work from home, working at home, working from home
In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug ...
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Google’s Shiny New AI Dev Environment — the ‘Experimental’ Project IDX

| agile environments, ai, AI assistant, AI ChatBots, AI integrations, artificial intelligence, Cloud development environment, copilot, development environment, full stack, GitHub Copilot, google, PaLM, Project IDX, The Long View
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from zero to ...
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2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink

| Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window management
In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...
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Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick

| ai, AI ethics, AI Ops, Amazon, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, Frontier Model Forum, GIS, google, Google Maps, Mapping, microsoft, OpenAI, Regulation, regulations, regulatory compliance, The Long View, TomTom
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators ...
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AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)

| ai, artificial intellegence, ChatGPT, generative AI, India, large language model, LLM, LLMs, machine learning, microsoft, ml, OpenAI, outsourcing, Stability AI, Stable Diffusion, The Long View, training models
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI ...
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Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms

| ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training models
In this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
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