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Enterprise cloud spending is showing no signs of cooling off. According to Synergy Research, global cloud infrastructure hit one hundred forty three billion dollars in the second quarter of two thousand twenty six, a forty three percent year-on-year jump and the fastest growth rate in eight years. AI demand is the primary engine, and analysts see little on the horizon to slow it down.
Shifting to a story that will resonate with anyone who stores files at home, a piece making rounds on Hacker News argues that network attached storage, the humble NAS device, is being quietly enshitified. Vendors are layering in subscription fees, locking down features, and pushing cloud dependencies onto hardware people bought specifically to stay independent. It's a familiar pattern, and readers aren't happy about it.
And finally, Apple's ProRes RAW on the iPhone seventeen Pro Max is drawing serious attention from professional colorists. Reviewers pulling footage into DaVinci Resolve say this isn't the usual incremental camera bump. True RAW video capture on a smartphone represents a genuine workflow shift, blurring the line between pocket device and cinema tool in ways that feel harder to dismiss this time.
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