I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work

The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its ...

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

He bought a bag of organic oranges – and expensed them to the client, as you do on a government contract – and started ...

If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst

For latency sensitive workloads, Intel is peddling its P-core Xeons like Granite Rapids and its upcoming Diamond Rapids parts ...

Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading

COMPUTEX 2026 Intel’s upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon will boost core counts to 192, a 50 percent increase over last generation, ...

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds ...

Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions ...