Monthly Archives: September 2022

The SEC revealed today that it charged VMWare with fraud . . . then settled for next to nothing

The world of enterprise software is often a little staid. Not today, however. The Securities and Exchange Commission today said it has charged the cloud computing giant VMware for “misleading investors about its order backlog management practices, which enabled the Palo Alto, Ca.-based technology company to push revenue into future quarters by delaying product deliveries…

New leaks suggest tantalizing Nvidia RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 announcement

The recent photo leak of the Zotac RTX 4090 certainly grabbed people’s attention, especially with the upcoming Nvidia GTC event on September 20th, where a lot of people, ourselves included, expect to see the announcement of the next generation of Nvidia graphics cards. Seeing in-the-wild photos of actual fabricated graphics cards lined up on a…

An uncrewed rocket from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin failed just over a minute after launch

Blue Origin, founded by billion Jeff Bezos, saw its first major incident on Monday. Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press A Blue Origin rocket with no crew onboard failed just over a minute after liftoff on Monday.  The New Shepard rocket, launched from Blue Origin’s West Texas facility, carried cargo for research. A livestream of the launch showed…

All the winners from the 2022 Emmys

Another Emmys full of heinous snubs (Station Eleven robbed!), happy tears, and completely unnecessary cringe sketches is over and done, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it now. In between the usual award-show shenanigans of weird bits, tired plugs for shows everyone’s already watching, and a completely chaotic approach to who gets played off…

Uncrewed Blue Origin capsule lands safely after New Shepard rocket failure

Blue Origin’s recent NS-23 flight didn’t go according to plan. On Monday morning, the private space firm was forced to abort the uncrewed mission after one of its New Shepard rockets suffered an unspecified “booster failure.” The problem came up about a minute after the flight took off from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site…