By Simon Sharwood Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. He’s previously railed against the idea that good documentation can explain the work of developers who use AI to contribute poor code to the kernel, and also complained that the Linux kernel security mailing list has become almost unmanageable due to a flood of AI-generated bug reports, many of them duplicates. Read the full story here.

The first Proxmox VE release with official support for 64-bit ARM (arm64/aarch64). It shares the code base, package repositories, and release lifecycle with its x86-64 counterpart.

(From Hyperframe Research) IBM Q2 2026 brings the cyclical nature of Mainframe revenue into stark contrast as z17 moves into the second half of its product refresh cycle

UK retail giant Tesco is replacing VMware with an alternative product and pressing ahead with its licensing lawsuit against the virtualization pioneer's parent company, Broadcom, which will be considered by the UK's High Court no sooner than November 2027.

As the COOs from both Uber and Microsoft recently learned, encouraging company engineers to use AI aggressively can lead to hefty usage bills, perhaps even offsetting all the gains from laying off employees.

Article published by The Register states Gartner analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration.

A 'marketing lite' argument for VMware Cloud Foundation (by some Broadcom employees you can probably trust).

Anthropic chips in US$1.5 M to continue to critical work of the Python Software Foundation. Bravo Anthropic.

Words of wisdom from Werner Vogel (AWS CTO)

Kingfisher Group CTO Chris Blatchford: "We're not anti-big vendors — especially of ERP systems — but we do need to see the value."

Tip o' the hat to SUSE for demonstrating some corporate social responsbility.

(From The Register) A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

In yet another blow for customer choice, Broadcom discontinues the ability for (remaining) VMware hosters to rent VMware licenses. Note: Shared as part of Virtified's mission to keep vendors accountable.

Reporting by Ry Crozier at itnews.com.au A pragmatic yet radical custom-assembled AI-powered workbench for modernising apps ... that's delivering results today.

According to The Register, UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, naming Computacenter as a co-defendant.

By Simon Sharwood VMware will port elements of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to Nvidia's power-guzzling servers. Plans call for phased development to bring all VCF features to Arm over a series of releases. See the full article here .

Equinix announces a set of partnerships to leverage nuclear power across its data centre fleet.

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now generally available in six AWS Regions

Nutanix explores the impact of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware.

To keep pace with the AI boom, investors could pour $7 trillion into building data centers over the next five years.