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Microsoft and the 'Linux' Foundation

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2023

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Microsoft Exchange Online hit by new outage blocking emails

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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Exchange Online outage preventing customers from sending emails and triggering 503 errors on affected systems.

Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Unsettles Employees and Alters Overwatch League

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Although the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft is expected to bring about significant changes within the company, the exact details of these changes have yet to be fully revealed. As the gaming industry continues to evolve and adapt to new trends and developments, it remains to be seen how Microsoft’s ownership will reshape the future of Activision and its various franchises, including the Overwatch League.

Activision Blizzard Lays Off 50 Employees [Ed: The 'Microsoft effect' comes early, if not prematurely]

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Around 50 Activision Blizzard employees have been laid off from the eSports team, causing some speculation about the division moving forward. The Overwatch League has been hit by recent changes, and the latest Activision Blizzard layoffs could play a role in the future of the popular eSports competition scene.

Overwatch 2's launch received a mixed reception due to the many changes that the live-service game made to the original formula. Although the Overwatch League has faded in popularity compared to its standing during the first game, some fans still follow their favorite teams and anticipate each eSports match. With Activision Blizzard looking to amend the Overwatch League agreement terms around the same time as these layoffs, the two may be related.

Leading Cloud Service, Semiconductor, and System Providers Unite to Form Ultra Ethernet Consortium [Ed: How many things that are not Linux does the 'Linux' Foundation provide more funding to (than Linux)? Maybe they should rebrand as the Ethernet Foundation then. A monopolists' incubator is not Open Source but openwashing at best. Typically, when the 'Linux' Foundation speaks of "collaboration" it means partnership between patent-rich giants and conglomerates. It's called oligopoly, not collaboration.]

=> ↺ Leading Cloud Service, Semiconductor, and System Providers Unite to Form Ultra Ethernet Consortium

Announced today, Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) is bringing together leading companies for industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads are rapidly evolving and require best-in-class functionality, performance, interoperability and total cost of ownership, without sacrificing developer and end-user friendliness. The Ultra Ethernet solution stack will capitalize on Ethernet’s ubiquity and flexibility for handling a wide variety of workloads while being scalable and cost-effective.

User Management in Cloud-Native Applications

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Cloud-native applications are scalable, resilient and flexible – but they also introduce a new set of user management challenges.

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