Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
Using SELECT * in SQL queries degrades performance by increasing network traffic, CPU usage, and memory consumption, as demonstrated by an Oracle benchmark where selecting 3 columns instead of 16 redu…
Using SELECT * in SQL queries degrades performance by increasing network traffic, CPU usage, and memory consumption, as demonstrated by an Oracle benchmark where selecting 3 columns instead of 16 redu…
Meta and Microsoft are leading a surge in data-center lease commitments among big tech firms, pushing total future obligations past $850 billion. Meta added $79 billion in the first quarter to reach $…
Big Tech companies including the Magnificent Seven, Broadcom, and Oracle have lost roughly $2.7 trillion in market value this month as investors question whether massive AI infrastructure spending can…
Meta and Microsoft have added roughly $50 billion each in new data center lease commitments in a single quarter, pushing total future lease obligations past $700 billion across major cloud providers. …
Meta and Microsoft have each committed approximately $50 billion in new data center leases, pushing total infrastructure obligations across major cloud providers past $700 billion and approaching $850…
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry disclosed $1.1 billion in put options against AI stocks Palantir and Nvidia, betting on a significant repricing as he criticizes poor return-on-invested-capital dynami…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 2% in futures trading as a tech stock selloff intensified amid rising expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes. Intel, Oracle, and Nvidia led the decline, while SpaceX sha…
Five U.S. firms—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—are projected to invest $800 billion in AI in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025, according to a Washington Times opinion column. The colu…
Oracle laid off 21,000 workers, a 12.9% reduction, partly due to AI adoption and a restructuring plan to focus on cloud offerings. The company plans to raise $45–50 billion in 2026 to expand AI data c…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce …
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs (13% of its workforce) in the past year, citing the adoption of AI technologies as a direct cause. The software giant is spending $70 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, joini…
Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year, reducing its workforce from 162,000 to 141,000, as it reorganizes around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers like OpenAI and Meta.…
The S&P 500 is up 9.8% year-to-date, but many other asset classes are outperforming it, including small caps (+21.7%), value stocks (+15.1%), and emerging markets (+30.8%). This broad market strength …
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Tuesday, including Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as ffmpeg, kernel, ope…
Oracle laid off 21,000 employees over the past year, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and cited AI adoption as a reason for the cuts. The company spent $1.8 billion on restructuring and may continue…
SpaceX went public in a record $75 billion IPO, becoming one of the world's 10 most valuable companies, as AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI also prepare to go public. These companies need massive ca…
Oracle disclosed a 21,000-employee workforce reduction over 12 months, citing AI adoption as a factor. Tech layoffs hit a record high in May 2026, with AI being the most-cited reason, as companies lik…
Ypsilanti Township board members vowed to fight a proposed nuclear-powered AI data center by the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory, citing concerns over electricity, water, and…
Meta employees in at least five US offices posted flyers on May 12 to protest the company's Model Capability Initiative, which collects employee computer use data to train AI models, with over 1,600 w…
A viral thought experiment called Europe 2031, published by Brussels-based thinktankers, depicts a doomsday scenario where Europe's failure to invest in AI leads to economic collapse, surging populism…