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This weekly news show from Tech Field Day breaks down the IT new for the week that was with a variable degree of snarkiness, hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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Microsoft Turns Fifty || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 9, 2025
Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at...
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Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 2, 2025
During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract engineering talent, fix the balance sheet issues, and look at manufacturing processes. One of the biggest ways to take care of those last t...
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Just How Secure Is Signal? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 26, 2025
This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of C...
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Cisco Bets it All On AI At Cisco Live | Tech Field Day News Rundown: June 18, 2025
Cisco Live was last week and the opening keynote was dripping with AI. Cisco's product lineup for the rest of the year and into the future is going to embrace AI agents and information for networking operations and security as well. CEO Chuck Robbins and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel talked a...
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NVIDIA Reveals Rubin AI and Blackwell Ultra || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 19, 2025
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NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from it...
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Is The CHIPS Act Crushed? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 12, 2025
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NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from it...