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We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?

Global communications and managed services provider BCM One this week unveiled Sanford “Sandy” Preizler as its new CEO. He talked with @crndotcom.bsky.social about his plans once he takes over officially next month. tinyurl.com/mr38mt47

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

High-performance object storage technology developer Minio Wednesday said it has launched its first formal channel program to better serve channel partners looking to help customers take advantage of AI. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yxytrss3

CyberSentric, a U.K.-based company formed by the merger of data protection vendor Redstor and security vendor TitanHQ, aims to integrate the two technologies for MSPs to bring to their clients. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr3vttp9

Facebook parent Meta is investing nearly $15B for 49% of AI data prep company Scale AI, and building what it calls “superintelligence,” an AI system that supposedly exceeds the power of the human brain, according to reports. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2enzajcn

A startup challenging Nvidia in the edge AI chip market has launched a global partner program in the hope of building a major business in the U.S. and elsewhere by creating sales opportunities with systems integrators and value-added resellers. www.crn.com/news/compone...

Solution provider and technology consultant Trace3 this month acquired Ivoxy Consulting in a move to expand its Northwestern U.S. presence. Trace3 President Joe Quaglia talked with CRN about the acquisition and what it means for his company. tinyurl.com/y33s3zz3

QBurst's new CEO Arun Kumar "Rak" Ramchandran talked with about his application development services company, which recently closed a $200M+ investment round, is looking to make a name for itself while expanding its AI capabilities. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5efcns2f

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

A dual boost in sales from semiconductor and VMware sales, driven by the steady growth in AI, helped Broadcom beat expectations during its fiscal 2025 second quarter and is pushing further growth going forward. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/467z69z6

In an interview, the CEO of Intel spin-off Cornelis Networks said its 400-Gbps CN5000 family of scale-out networking solutions, launched Tuesday, offers the “best performance with devastatingly good price-performance” compared to InfiniBand- or Ethernet-based offerings. www.crn.com/news/network...

Broadcom is calling its newly launched 102.4-Tbps Tomahawk 6 Ethernet switch series a “breakthrough” and a “turning point in AI infrastructure design” that is “poised to make a rapid and dramatic impact on the deployment” of AI data centers. www.crn.com/news/compone...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, warned that hackers are exploiting the ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability, which could allow a ViewState code injection attack. Details, incl. what a ViewState code injection attack is, @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yury6wmw

Billions in foreign real estate deals. $320M in crypto trading fees — and a private dinner with top buyers of his meme coin. $28M from Amazon for a Melania documentary. The list goes on... We're so numb to Trump profiting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices. Hello?

HP Inc. is betting on an AI chip from Israeli startup Hailo for a new accelerator M.2 card that is meant to power AI workloads in low-power devices such as point-of-sale systems. www.crn.com/news/interne...

General Informatics, a managed IT and cybersecurity services provider, acquired GlobeNet. This gives the MSP a strong cybersecurity services team along with the ability to enhance its La. business, CEO/Pres. Don Monistere told me. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mry9e4x8

Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

Cloud storage and all-flash storage growth along with significant enterprise AI adoption helped NetApp grow in FY25 despite macroeconomic issues, including uncertainties caused by the Trump administration tariffs, CEO George Kurian said. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2xe4v6x5

Michael Park, a 5-year ServiceNow veteran, is taking over as its SVP of global partnerships and channels following the departure earlier this month of Erica Volini. Park, formerly ServiceNow's CMO and AI head, brings an AI focus to the channel. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3fv76uk4

AMD said Wednesday it has acquired silicon photonics startup Enosemi to “support and develop a variety of photonics and co-packaged optics solutions across next-gen AI systems.” www.crn.com/news/compone...

Digital services consultant Argano acquired Anavate Partners, a fellow consulting firm focused on cloud-based planning and forecasting. This marks Argano’s 4th acquisition since Jan. 1, as well as its 20th since it was founded in 2020. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/chuaj57e

As Trump's family businesses invest heavily in crypto... -He's instructing the government to ease up on regulating the industry -His SEC is dropping major lawsuits against crypto companies -His DOJ terminated a team focused on crypto crimes. See the problem?

New storage, AI-focused tech releases and hyperscaler cloud opportunities led to a robust first fiscal quarter 2026 and strong future guidance for Pure Storage. The company also said its subscription services mitigate tariff impacts. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr2udvck

With its acquisition of NYC-based Agio, MSP Netrio gets an expanded northeastern U.S. market, a ServiceNow relationship, cybersecurity and financial services expertise, as well as the propietary AgioNow GenAI-powered IT delivery platform. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3ds4tz2m

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready talked with me about Scale, VMware, Broadcom, Nutanix, and Veeam, and how they all come together in the HCI and edge computing space. And Ready was not kind about VMware. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/zfxvpjp3

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

Trump will host a private dinner tomorrow for the top buyers of his memecoin, which has made him the world's newest crypto billionaire. The top 25 coin buyers will get a "VIP White House tour." Call it what it is: corruption.

While many Americans were still asleep, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed Trump’s huge, horrible mega-bill. It might be the worst, most damaging piece of legislation I’ve seen in my nearly 60 years in politics.

Intel said one of its three newly revealed Xeon 6 processors designed to “boost GPU performance across demanding AI workloads” will serve as the host CPU for Nvidia’s new Blackwell Ultra-based DGX B300 system. www.crn.com/news/compone...

Global solution provider Cognizant Thursday said it has open-sourced its Neuro AI Multi-Agent Accelerator technology for prototyping and building agent networks across any industry vertical. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/364rfmu3

Software-defined storage pioneer DataCore Wednesday unveiled the acquisition of StarWind Software, a developer of hyperconverged infrastructure technology aimed at edge and remote-office/back-office applications. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bddjuknn

Republicans are spreading lies about the Medicaid work requirements in their budget bill. Here are the facts: -The majority of Medicaid recipients who can work are already working -Work requirements do not increase employment -Access to affordable healthcare, like Medicaid, does Know the truth.

Good-bye, Norm, who never met a beer he didn't like. I'll drink one for you tonight. tinyurl.com/ytjdw38f

Most attendees at Trump's private memecoin dinner this week will likely be foreign buyers, according to CNBC. One of the top buyers is Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who was facing fraud charges until Trump's SEC dropped them. Call it what it is: corruption.

It's amazing how all the animals join in the fun and do exactly what the child wants—like a real-life fairy tale! 🌟

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready told @crndotcom.bsky.social in an exclusive meeting that edge computing remains a confusing subject, particularly for the SMBs and smaller enterprises and their channel partners who would most benefit from a move to the edge. tinyurl.com/3rcfx66e

While Scale Computing’s Platform//2025 confab focused on Scale's drive to dominate the edge computing market, Scale also tried to take advantage of the disruptions caused by Broadcom's VMware acquisition. Some referred to Broadcom as "Badcom." Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ydvhp66e

Ateko, technically a digital transformation startup solution provider, was formed by Bell Canada from 3 acquired IT service providers with a history of supporting ServiceNow, Salesforce, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2kdzp8d5

ScanSource Chair Mike Baur, who Thursday said fiscal 2025 is still looking good despite the 3Q revenue drop, talked with me about the creation of a new business development team focused on recruiting new suppliers to its channel. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23yccrt9

I hope Pope Bob I does a good job counterbalancing the image of the U.S. now dominated by the false Christian and false prophet Donald Trump.