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Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...

Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon ...

Google De-Recruits 100s of Recruiters ¦ ARM Valued at $45½B in IPO
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation ...

Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space? ...

2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...

IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but … ...

Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...

Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI ...

Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub ...

AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs ...

EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work ...

Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out
This week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images ...