Tech Field Day News Rundown
The Tech Field Day News Rundown is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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LG TVs Are Listening, Anthropic, Broadcom, & More | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 9, 2026 (opens the original)
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Is your smart TV secretly recording your conversations even when turned off? In this post-Labor Day episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down the top enterprise tech and AI headlines. They discuss Broadcom pulling public VMware VDDK downloads and creating hurdles for migration tools, Anthropic scrapping its $6B Descartes buyout in favor of a partnership, and Solo.io open-sourcing its Agent Desktop to solve AI tool sprawl on developer laptop
NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face & Tim Cook Steps Down | Tech Field Day News Rundown: September 2, 2026 (opens the original)
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Big tech is shifting fast as massive acquisitions, executive shakeups, and real-world AI challenges redefine the industry landscape. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, we break down reports of NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face for $13 billion, Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down to hand the reins to John Ternus, and Together AI partnering with HUMAIN on a 250MW Saudi data center to beat domestic power limits. Plus, we look at dangerous new crypto AML wallet draining scams, Signal65 and
Meta’s $200 Agent, Wafer-Scale Speed, & DRAM Shortage | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 26, 2026 (opens the original)
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As companies push artificial intelligence into every corner of software and hardware, everyday consumers and IT teams are starting to feel the impact on their budgets and security. In this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke examine Meta’s reported $200 monthly AI agent platform Hatch, Cerebras’ massive CS-4 wafer-scale system, and high-stakes acquisition rumors surrounding Hugging Face. The hosts also break down how skyrocketing demand for AI data ce
Cloud Costs, Critical Vulnerabilities & PBS Issues | | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 19, 2026 (opens the original)
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Cloud storage costs, security threats, and AI infrastructure are creating new challenges for IT teams. This week on the Tech Field Day News Rundown , Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke discuss Lucidity expanding cloud optimization to Azure object storage, Microsoft patching nearly 400 vulnerabilities, and a major VMware vCenter attack campaign. They also look at NVIDIA’s potential $105 billion commitment to OpenAI’s Ohio data center, Google moving its A2A protocol under the Agentic AI Foundati
Fake Airplane Wi-Fi, NVIDIA AI, & Cloud Security | Tech Field Day News Rundown: August 12, 2026 (opens the original)
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When mid-air Wi-Fi scares meet massive enterprise AI investments, IT teams are forced to rethink both security and cloud strategy. On this episode of the Tech Field Day News Rundown, hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke break down a fake Wi-Fi network detected on a Delta flight post-DEF CON that temporarily shut down inflight internet. They also explore NetApp acquiring JetStream Software to ease VMware cloud disaster recovery, along with NVIDIA releasing open-source tools like Nemotron 3.
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