Nvidia and Microsoft plan to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, making Azure the first public cloud to incorporate Nvidia’s full AI stack (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Google Cloud announces the Blockchain Node Engine, helping developers build and manage blockchain-based products, starting with Ethereum  —  Google Cloud on Thursday unveiled Blockchain Node Engine – a fully managed service for Web3 developers that wants to build and manage products for blockchain-based platforms.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close  —  New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.  —  Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs are amazing performers.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023  —  Streaming giant plans global expansion of program that helped make ‘Don’t Look Up’ less serious  —  Netflix’s Turbulent Year: How It Reversed Subscriber Losses

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet:
Google signs a cooperative research and development agreement with the NIST to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices with open-source designs  —  Chips used to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices oftentimes have a large price tag, posing a big obstacle for innovation.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Joe Belfiore, who has been Microsoft’s VP of Office Group for the past two years and with the company for 32 years, has announced his retirement  —  Joe Belfiore, who has been the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Office Group for the past two years and with the company in various roles for 32 years, has announced his retirement.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on running the company, growing a SaaS business, content moderation, community satisfaction, Web3, and more  —  Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers.  CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.