US Objects to HPE-Juniper Wedding; Cheeky DeepSeek Freaks VCs
Take a Network Break! The US Justice Department blocks the HPE-Juniper merger with a surprise lawsuit, DeepSeek shakes up the AI world, and Broadcom rolls out quantum-safe Fibre Channel controllers.
Sweden seizes a vessel suspected of tampering with a subsea cable, a code update could make Linux significantly more power-efficient, and the WLAN market gets a healthy growth forecast for 2025.
We also cover financial results from Microsoft (really good, but not good enough for Wall Street), Intel (not great, but no one’s expecting much), and Check Point (steady and respectable).
New Apple CPU side-channel attacks steal data from browsers - Bleeping Computer - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...
New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits - The Hacker News - https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/new...
VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations updates address multiple vulnerabilities - Broadcom - https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/...
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VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation - The Register - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/3...
United States of America v Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Juniper Networks, Inc. - US Department of Justice
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks Strongly Oppose Department of Justice’s Decision to File Suit to Block Acquisition - Juniper Networks - https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/138...
HPE And Juniper Wi-Fi Market Share By The Numbers - Packet Pushers - https://packetpushers.net/blog/hpe-an...
AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check - MIT Technology Review - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025...
US tech shares recover some losses from steep DeepSeek selloff - Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/technology/te...
DeepSeek claims 'malicious attacks' disrupting AI service - Tech Target - https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecu...
Kernel vs. User-Level Networking: Don't Throw Out the Stack with the Interrupts - ACM Digital Library - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626780
NAPI - The Linux Foundation - https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/netw...
Broadcom Delivers Industry’s First Quantum Resistant Network Encryption, Enabling Real-time Ransomware Detection - Broadcom - https://www.broadcom.com/company/news...
Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage - The Register - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/2...
Sweden’s elite armed police used helicopter to board suspected sabotage ship - The Record - https://therecord.media/sweden-vezhen...
Linux kernel tweak could cut data center power usage by up to 30% - Network World - https://www.networkworld.com/article/...
WLAN Market Will Surge to Double-Digit Growth in 2025, According to Dell’Oro Group - Dell’Oro Group - https://www.delloro.com/news/wlan-mar...
Microsoft investigates Microsoft 365 outage affecting users, admins - Bleeping Computer - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...
Earnings Release FY25 Q2 - Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Inves...
Microsoft shares slide as cloud forecast, AI spending disappoint - Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/technology/mi...
Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2024 Financial Results - Intel - https://www.intc.com/news-events/pres...
Check Point Software Reports Fourth Quarter and 2024 Full Year Results - Check Point - https://www.checkpoint.com/press-rele...
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