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3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer |Joe Fay |Ed Targett

Blanket global tariffs imposed by US President Trump threaten to upend the global technology supply chain but are “great news for the future of European tech” claimed VC firm TDK Ventures’ Marc Bouchet today. The tariffs include steep duty hikes on key EMEA trading partners, and Asia hit particularly hardest by tariffs of up to 54% on some of the technology world’s biggest exporters, including China, Taiwan and India.

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay |Noah Bovenizer |Ed Targett

The Kubecon caravan rolled into London this week with the impact of AI on observability dominating the first tranche of keynotes at the cloud native fest. That’s not to say it was panic stations over how enterprises are focusing attention – and budget – on AI rather than cloud native projects. Rather, it was a more realistic appraisal of where genAI and LLMs start fitting into the practical development and operation of cloud platforms and applications.

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer |Joe Fay

Funding under the US CHIPS Act will now be overseen by a new Investment Accelerator office pushing companies to make “large investments” in the US, leaving the future of the billion-dollar program more uncertain than ever. Just a few weeks after the US President expressed a desire to scrap the CHIPS Act altogether, Trump signed an executive order putting the act’s funding program under the new office of the Department of Commerce.

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer |Joe Fay

Compelling critical infrastructure companies to boost their cyber resilience, swiftly changing cyber regulations, and regulating data centres are all on the UK’s government’s wish list of new powers in its long-awaited cybersecurity bill. Described as an attempt to bolster cyber protections for key infrastructure, such as hospitals and energy suppliers, the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill proposals could see 1,000 service providers subject to new regulatory powers.

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Alex McMullan |Joe Fay

For decades, IT leaders have operated under an unspoken requirement: every few years, rip and replace. Servers, storage, networking – when the next upgrade cycle arrives, they roll out the latest technology. It’s a rhythm as predictable as the seasons, writes Alex McMullan, CTO International at Pure Storage. But here’s the problem: that model is obsolete. It’s costly, wasteful, and fundamentally at odds with the demands of modern IT.