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ChromeOS Sunset: Google’s 2034 End Date and the Googlebook Squeeze on Schools
Google has dated the ChromeOS sunset at mid-2034 while launching a premium Googlebook that institutions cannot centrally manage until late 2027. The ten-year update promise now delivers eight.
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Expana IQ Connect: When Audit-Grade Benchmarks Become Agent-Callable
Expana’s MCP server sends IOSCO-assured commodity benchmarks into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. The launch is small; the question of how audit-grade provenance survives an AI pipeline is not.
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NOR Flash Shortage: Why the AI Supercycle Broke the Web’s Boring Memory
NOR flash — the boot-code memory inside retimers, cars and satellites — is in a structural shortage. Prices rose 100-120% in H1 2026, and no new capacity is planned. Here is what it means for buyers and for India.
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Cloudflare Certificate Authority: Post-Quantum Web PKI Gets a New Trust Anchor
Cloudflare will become a public CA issuing classic TLS and post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates, backed by GlobalSign’s trusted root. The post-quantum web PKI transition starts here.
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Kokasa Launch: IIT Bombay Batchmates Bet on India’s Defence Indigenisation Boom
Three IIT Bombay batchmates — from Epigamia, Housing.com and HAL — launched Kokasa to build actuation, sensing and autonomy systems for India’s defence indigenisation push. The market moment is verifiable; the execution claims are not yet.
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NetApp Novus: Inside NetApp’s Biggest Platform Bet — 100 TB/s, Four Clouds, Agentic Data
At INSIGHT 2026 NetApp launched Novus for AI factories, an OCI-native storage service, and heterogeneous AI data governance. The 100 TB/s headline is a design target; the architecture shift is the story.
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AI-Powered Credit Analysis via MCP: Dun & Bradstreet Wires Finance Agents
D&B’s D&B.AI launch wires the DUNS-anchored Commercial Graph into Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT and Databricks via MCP. The performance claims carry no methodology; the entity-resolution moat is the story.
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Spectre v2 Attack Returns: Branch Target Reuse Targets JIT Compilers
Branch Target Reuse breaks an assumption held since 2018, with working kernel exploits across Intel, AMD and Arm. The Linux fix shipped in July; the underlying CPU behavior has no hardware fix.
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Google Maps Scraping: The Gray-Market Industry That Undercuts Google’s Own API
Scrapers sell the business data Google’s terms prohibit, at a tenth of the Places API’s price. The law says contract, not crime — and Google’s DMCA case against SerpApi just narrowed.
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Semiconductor Logistics in India: What the NX Group–ISM MoU Actually Establishes
An information-sharing MoU between NX Group and ISM looks thin on paper, but a dedicated 2027 Dholera logistics centre and Semicon 2.0’s equipment-and-materials pillar make India’s chip-cargo bottleneck the story.