Facing backlash, Broadcom has reversed its 72-core minimum licensing for VMware, reinstating the lower core count. Future licensing changes remain uncertain.

Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, reducing reboots, launches July 1st but requires a monthly subscription based on CPU cores.

Redis adopts AGPLv3 alongside its SSPL license, returning to open source for Redis 8. Aims to boost community and address cloud provider concerns.

Microsoft is changing its nonprofit licensing, discontinuing free M365 Business Premium & E1, offering basic licenses and significant discounts instead.

PHP is proposing a shift to the 3-Clause BSD License for PHP 9.0, aiming to resolve long-standing compatibility issues and streamline its open-source framework.

Arm CEO Rene Haas confirms the company is exploring developing its own chips and chiplets, marking a strategic pivot that could put it in direct competition with long-time partners like Qualcomm and NVIDIA.Arm, Chip Development, AI, Chiplets, Semiconductors…

Microsoft is eliminating volume-based enterprise discounts for its online services, a move that could significantly raise costs for many small and medium businesses.

A U.S. court dismissed Arm's remaining lawsuit against Qualcomm and Nuvia, granting Qualcomm a "complete victory" and clearing the way for its high-performance CPU cores.

Perplexity AI licenses Getty Images' visual archives to integrate visuals into search with proper attribution, marking a strategic shift in AI copyright battles.

Apple will reportedly pay Google $1B annually to license Gemini AI to power the next-gen Siri's "summarizer" and "planner" functions within its Private Cloud Compute.

Microsoft changed the KMS activation mechanism in Windows 11 (Build 26040+), removing the license transfer that KMS38 exploited, effectively breaking the activation method.

Microsoft closed the KMS38 loophole by removing gatherosstate.exe in Windows Build 26040, killing the offline method that granted Windows activation until 2038.

Microsoft resolves the bug causing Windows Server 2019/2022 to auto-upgrade to 2025. Learn about the KB5082063 fix and the 10-day rollback window.