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As we look ahead to the next evolution of our multi-tenant cloud platform, understanding how VMware Cloud Director (VCD) is used in the field has never been more important. VMware Cloud Director Environment Assessment Tool (EAT) — a lightweight, on-demand script designed to help Cloud Providers and VCD Enterprise Customers gain insights into their VCD deployments while contributing data to shape future platform enhancements. What is the VCD Environment Assessment Tool? The EAT is a diagnostic utility that collects environment-specific metadata from a VCD instance. It helps you: Review deployment scale, including: Number of Organizations, PVDCs, OrgVDCs, and networks Understand…

There’s a moment every December when the world feels like it’s running on pure magic. Networks hit peak demand. Sales teams sprint to close the quarter. Customer service teams solve urgent requests. Packages appear on doorsteps. Every workplace—from retail to healthcare to manufacturing to offices—becomes a high-performance workshop. Not the storybook workshop we grew up imagining. A real one. Fast. Flexible. Distributed. Always on. If Santa had to run it, even he’d trade the legacy sleigh for something smarter and more powerful. Because to future-proof workplaces in the modern enterprise, magic doesn’t scale, but AI does. As I look across…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. If the EU holds firm on the 2035 target, the European auto industry has a real chance to be competitive global EV players. Next week the EU will make an announcement that will decide the fate of its car industry. The revision of the car CO2 law, and the 2035 electrification target, will tell us whether Europe is going to compete with China and the US, or acknowledge that the future of the automotive industry is not European. The automotive industry and its political allies are throwing all their weight into…

Build your own low-level game engine in Metal! Metal is a unified application programming interface (API) for the graphics processing unit, or GPU. It’s unified because it applies to both 3D graphics and data-parallel computation paradigms. Metal is a low-level API because it provides programmers near-direct access to the GPU. Finally, Metal is a low-overhead API because it reduces the central processing unit (CPU) cost by multi-threading and pre-compiling of resources. But beyond the technical definition, Metal is the most appropriate way to use the GPU’s parallel processing power to visualize data or solve numerical challenges. It’s also tailored to…

Explore Mistral Large 3 in Azure—open-source, long-context, multimodal AI built for reliable enterprise workloads. Enterprises today are embracing open-weight models for their transparency, flexibility, and ability to run across a broad range of deployment architectures. As the number of open models grows, the bar for reliability, instruction-following quality, multimodal reasoning, and long-context performance continues to rise.  Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral Large 3 is now available in Azure, bringing one of the strongest open-weight, Apache-licensed frontier models to the Microsoft Cloud.  Mistral Large 3 delivers frontier-class capabilities with open-source flexibility, making it a powerful option for organizations building production assistants, retrieval-augmented applications, agentic systems, and multimodal…

Eating your veggies has never been easier with countertop kitchen devices like Instant Pots. Even experts agree. Chef Vahista Ussery, a registered dietitian nutritionist and founder of the culinary education company To Taste, tells CNET that, compared to traditional stovetop steaming, Instant Pots offer a more set-it-and-forget-it approach. This makes them ideal for novice cooks or those who are multitasking in the kitchen. “Set it and forget it” also sounds wonderful for cooking after a long, busy day.But how exactly should you be steaming your vegetables in an Instant Pot, especially to ensure you’re not losing an abundance of nutrients in…

Scientists have unveiled a technique that uses ‘molecular antennas’ to direct electrical energy into insulating nanoparticles. This approach creates a new family of ultra-pure near-infrared LEDs that could be used in medical diagnostics, optical communication systems, and sensitive detectors. Researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge have discovered how to drive electrical current into materials that normally do not conduct, a feat previously thought impossible under normal conditions. By attaching carefully chosen organic molecules that act like tiny antennas, they have built the first light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from insulating nanoparticles. Their work, reported in Nature, points toward a new…

Mastodon is a free, open-source social networking service that is decentralized and distributed. It was created in 2016 as an alternative to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. One of the key features of Mastodon is the use of the WebFinger protocol, which allows users to discover and access information about other users on the Mastodon network. WebFinger is a simple HTTP-based protocol that enables a user to discover information about other users or resources on the internet by using their email address or other identifying information. The WebFinger protocol is important for Mastodon because…

(As part of this series, join MIT Technology Review’s editor in chief, Mat Honan, and editor at large, David Rotman, for an exclusive conversation with Financial Times columnist Richard Waters on how AI is reshaping the global economy. Live on Tuesday, December 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This is a subscriber-only event and you can sign up here.) Will Douglas Heaven writes:  Every time I’m asked what’s coming next, I get a Luke Haines song stuck in my head: “Please don’t ask me about the future / I am not a fortune teller.” But here goes. What will things be…

Global talent models are being tested by a complex web of policy shifts and geopolitical volatility. Visa reforms, contractor reclassification, tariff disputes, and regional conflicts are redefining how and where organizations access talent. From tightening H-1B scrutiny in the United States to Brazil’s evolving labor rules and renewed trade tensions across major economies, disruption has become the backdrop of global workforce planning. The question for organizations is no longer whether uncertainty will persist but how prepared their talent management models are to absorb it. The new reality: Policy and geopolitical uncertainty Across geographies, governments are reshaping labor and trade frameworks…