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European cloud providers and enterprise IT customers are sounding alarms over changes to VMware's licensing structure that have driven prices up by as much as 1,500% since Broadcom's acquisition of the virtualisation giant.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/20…

European customers rail against Broadcom's 1,500% VMware price hike
A new report concludes that Broadcom’s price rises are leaving European customers without viable VMware alternatives.

Decagon, which offers AI-powered customer service agents for enterprises, raised a $131M Series C co-led by Accel and a16z at a $1.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/customer-service-ai-startup-…

The Custom #Tenant Code Nightmare (And How to Wake Up) 🏗️
🔥 Managing dozens of customer branches wastes 40% of development time on merges instead of features
🎨 Custom Views: Use fallback patterns
or customer-specific directories for branding without logic changes
⚙️ Custom Services: Swap implementations via dependency injection - same interface, different providers
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Neue Übernahme: TDK investiert in Smart-Glasses-Geschäft
TDK übernimmt das kalifornische Start-up SoftEye, das wichtige Bausteine für KI-Brillen der nächsten Generation entwickelt.
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"Captain Underpants and the Conundrum of Creating a Custom Cookie Cutter: Creating a Unique, Edible Treat for Banned Books Week" https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26878
"The University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno, celebra…

Trains costing up to 26 times more than flights, new report reveals
British cross-border train fares far outstrip flights, ranking among Europe’s worst.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trains-costing-26-times-more-flights-new-repo…

The new #1: Suhr Pete Thorn Custom
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@… amazing, thank you so much for this!
fwiw, there is a way to add a custom timeout to Eleventy’s Fetch utility: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/fetch/#a

Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/sur…

Microsoft launches Intel-exclusive Surface Laptop 5G with reengineered design — but it's SHOCKINGLY expensive
The Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is now available to order, but only for business customers and with an Intel Core Ultra chip. The device will ship on August 26 and starts at an eyewatering $1,799.

Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 internal advice ruling that enabled Apple to reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Masimo Sues US Customs Over Apple Restoring Watch’s Oxygen Tool
US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.