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US agencies should use advanced technology to identify mysterious drones, Schumer saysDebate over foreign workers in tech shows MAGA tensionsEnergy stocks as a whole delivered an underwhelming performance in 2025. The average one in the S&P 500 has only managed to eke out a small gain (the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund -- an ETF that tracks energy stocks in the S&P 500 -- is only up about 1% on the year). Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has rallied more than 25%. A few Fool.com contributors expect a better performance from energy stocks next year. Chevron ( CVX 0.01% ) , Enterprise Products Partners ( EPD -0.23% ) , and Occidental Petroleum ( OXY 0.75% ) top their lists as the best ones to buy in the new year. Here's why they expect these energy companies to deliver a strong performance in 2025. Chevron has you covered through the energy cycle Reuben Gregg Brewer (Chevron): Energy stocks can be volatile, given that oil and natural gas prices are notoriously volatile. So you have to go in ready to handle the inherent ups and downs of the industry, regardless of whether you buy at the top of the energy cycle or the bottom. Chevron is built to ride the wave -- and keep paying you well throughout. The proof is in the $250 billion market cap energy giant's 37-year streak of annual dividend increases. There are a couple of important reasons for this reliable performance. First off, as an integrated energy company, Chevron has exposure across the energy sector, including the upstream (energy production), midstream ( pipelines ), and downstream (chemicals and refining). Each of the sectors operates a little differently from the others and, as such, having all three in the portfolio helps to soften the broader industry's peaks and valleys. CVX Debt to Equity Ratio data by YCharts Then there's Chevron's rock-solid balance sheet , with a debt-to-equity ratio that's a very low 0.2. That would be low for any company, but it gives Chevron the leeway to take on leverage during energy downturns so it can continue to support its business and dividend until the energy sector recovers, as it always has before. Add in an attractive 4.5% dividend yield , and there's even more reason to buy Chevron right now. Dual drivers should fuel more growth in 2025 Matt DiLallo (Enterprise Products Partners ): Midstream giant Enterprise Products Partners had a very solid year in 2024. The master limited partnership ( MLP ) grew its distributable cash flow by 5% in the third quarter. Meanwhile, it has increased its distribution payment by 5% over the past year. The company benefited from recently completed organic expansion projects, which supplied it with new sources of cash flow . That momentum should continue in 2025. The midstream company has several more organic expansion projects in the pipeline that should enter commercial service over the next year. Those projects will supply more sources of cash flow growth next year. In addition, Enterprise Products Partners will get a boost from its recently closed acquisition of Pinon Midstream. The $950 million deal will be highly accretive to its cash flow. The MLP expects it to add $0.03 per unit in 2025, with further upside potential from commercial and operating synergies. Those visible growth drivers should give the MLP the fuel to continue increasing its distribution in 2025. That would extend its growth streak, which reached 26 years in 2024. Its payout currently yields a very attractive 6.8%, putting it much higher than average (the S&P 500's dividend yield is around 1.2%). Enterprise Products Partners' lucrative income stream and visible growth drivers should give it the fuel to produce a solid return in 2025. That low-risk probability of earning a solid return makes it stand out as a top energy stock to buy for the next year. A compelling bounce-back candidate for 2025 Neha Chamaria (Occidental Petroleum): Occidental Petroleum stock turned out to be one of the largest underperforming large-cap energy stocks of 2024, losing 19% of its value in the year as of this writing. While falling oil prices in the second half of the year hit several oil stocks, Occidental Petroleum stock took a bigger hit partly because of debt, which zoomed after its multibillion-dollar CrownRock acquisition in August. At this point, however, Occidental Petroleum looks like the kind of energy stock you'd want to buy for 2025 for one big reason: Management is laser-focused on cutting down debt. Occidental announced a target of reducing debt by at least $4.5 billion within 12 months of closing the CrownRock acquisition. The company, however, hit 90% of its goal in less than three months, driven by strong cash flow generation in its third quarter. During its third-quarter earnings conference call, management stated that Occidental Petroleum has enough cash to repay debt maturing in 2025, and that it should be able to pare debt further next year even in a low-oil price environment. Meanwhile, CrownRock's key assets in the Permian Basin are already contributing to Occidental's production and cash flows, as was evidenced in the third quarter. Occidental also has other growth catalysts, such as its low-carbon ventures business and its chemicals business, called OxyChem. Given the backdrop, Occidental Petroleum looks like a value stock worth betting on for 2025 .
Oracle: Disrupting The Healthcare Industry With AIThe fight for the future of the Liberal Party of Canada has begun. It is no longer a question of whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign — for most of caucus, that question is settled. It may even be settled for the prime minister. He is in British Columbia, possibly taking the 2024 version of a walk in the snow, a run down the ski hill. What is now up for debate is who should pick the next Liberal leader and what that means for the party. On Monday, the Star has learned, the Liberals’ Atlantic caucus met over Zoom and came to the same conclusion as their Ontario counterparts did last Saturday: Trudeau needs to go. They tasked their caucus chair, Nova Scotia MP Kody Blois, to report the message to the Prime Minister’s Office and ask for a national caucus meeting in early January for MPs to decide whether an interim leader should be appointed. Cabinet ministers who were on the call did not dissuade their colleagues. In fact, according to three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc focused on what should happen after Trudeau’s resignation. LeBlanc argued the party didn’t have time for a lengthy leadership race and left the impression that caucus should pick the next leader. (LeBlanc did not respond to a request for comment.) It’s a self-interested argument, of course. LeBlanc, affable and experienced, would be a strong contender for leader — if not the most likely — from caucus’s standpoint. He wouldn’t be the first to make the argument. After Chrystia Freeland’s surprise resignation as finance minister , prime minister Jean Chrétien’s former chief of staff, Eddie Goldenberg, called for Trudeau to resign effective Jan. 6 and for Freeland to be selected by the caucus and cabinet as the next permanent leader. Goldenberg, in an essay on Nationalnewswatch.com , argued the party didn’t have three or four months to hold a contest and it should suspend a normal leadership convention. For Canadians who lived through the last time the Grits anointed their leader, it may seem a strange argument to make. Could the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2011 near-death experience have been avoided if the party hadn’t chosen to crown Michael Ignatieff leader in 2009 and instead allowed a one-member-one-vote contest? Road testing leaders doesn’t necessarily mean a better candidate or a better election performance. Stéphane Dion was elected by the party in 2006, beating out Ignatieff, and his lacklustre performance during the leadership campaign was pretty much duplicated during the 2008 election. But a leadership contest does allow for a preview of what’s to come. What’s more, it injects energy, allows for new entrants, for new ideas, for new data points to be collected be it money, or emails and phone numbers of potential Liberal voters. In a Friday morning email to caucus colleagues, obtained by the Star, Calgary MP George Chahal expressed frustration at the current state of affairs and argued against a caucus vote. “Any rational individual in a position of leadership would resign,” and “any group of individuals providing advice based on data and logic would reach the same conclusion,” Chahal wrote, lamenting the past six months that had been spent trying to make the case as respectfully as possible. “Unfortunately, a small cabal have (sic) decided to pursue a reckless strategy of mutual assured political destruction. It is clear the Liberal Party of Canada is not their priority,” he wrote. Trudeau no longer had the support of caucus, Chahal expressed, and “to maintain some dignity” the prime minister should immediately tender his resignation. Caucus, he wrote, should elect an interim leader who could head the government for the next 60 to 75 days, and he called for the party — through its governing board — to start the immediate process for an expedited leadership process that is transparent and democratic. “I and other members (of) caucus do not support a secret conclave where caucus chooses the new leader,” Chahal wrote. Some MPs fear that Trudeau will hang on as long as possible so that LeBlanc’s argument — that there isn’t enough time for a leadership race — comes to fruition. That could leave Trudeau in place — the Conservatives seem intent on ensuring that happens — or ensure a caucus insider is appointed. The Prime Minister’s Office seems resistant to the idea of appointing an interim leader, further fuelling those concerns. This week, Trudeau’s former principal secretary Gerald Butts weighed in, arguing that Goldenberg’s argument would “confirm Canadians’ worst instincts about the Liberal party. “ ‘There’s no time for democracy’ is a tell of an argument,” Butts wrote on Substack . “It’s also bad strategy. If you want to know who can play hockey, put on a hockey game. It doesn’t matter who you think you support at this moment, we’ll all have a more seasoned view if we see these people in live action. “Competitions create better competitors. In politics, leadership campaigns make for better general election campaign teams. They train people, test ideas, build resilience,” he wrote. There is self-interest there, too. Butts is close with former Bank of Canada governor and likely Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney. But he’s not wrong. Battle lines are being drawn, camps are organizing and attempting to sway the party executive and caucus to enact rules that benefit their interest. What’s clear is that the longer Trudeau takes to make his decision, the more Canadians will know he’s less interested in building the Liberal movement he spoke of in 2013 when he was elected party leader, and more interested in returning to “the old ways of doing politics” he used to denounce.
Settling America's Lawsuit Culture Should Be Part of Trump's Inflation Strategy | OpinionThe Italian Grand Prix will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2031 after a six-year extension was announced Wednesday. Monza has hosted a grand prix since the inaugural world championship in 1950. “Monza is at the very heart of Formula 1 history and the atmosphere each year is unique as the tifosi gather in huge numbers to cheer on Ferrari and the drivers,” F1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali said. “The recent upgrades to the circuit's infrastructure and the planned investment show a strong commitment to the long-term future of Formula 1 in Italy,” he added. Charles Leclerc secured Ferrari a rare win at Monza on Sept. 1. Next year's edition is scheduled Sept. 5-7.
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AI This is my fourth and last blog on digital storage and memory projections for 2025. The first two articles focused on digital storage and memory devices including magnetic tape, HDDs, SSDs as well as NAND, DRAM and emerging non-volatile memories. The third was an update on optical storage, since several optical storage startups targeting the archiving and digital preservation market came to the forefront in 2024 and appear to be poised to deliver prototype products in 2025 and beyond. This article will focus on developments in storage systems and software and their use in workflows as well as additional insights on the future of storage devices and systems. 2024 saw the recovery of the overall storage and memory markets, although NAND flash and SSD markets have had only a partial recovery this year with most growth in the enterprise and data center markets. In September 2024 IDC released a report stating that the worldwide enterprise external OEM storage systems are expected to grow an average of 4.3% over a 5-year period. IDC attributed the growth to, “Positive developments and drivers for growing demand include increasing demand for flash storage (typically, all-flash arrays) to support projects related to artificial intelligence, both for training and inferencing” and “increasing demand for flash media across both external storage systems and servers.” They also say that IaaS solutions are leading more companies to repatriate or planning to repatriate workloads from shared cloud to dedicated IT environments. On the other hand, IDC, in another September report , forecast that 2024 cloud infrastructure spending (computing and storage) will grow 48.8% over 2023. Much of this spending growth was due to the increasing costs for GPU servers. Actual unit cloud growth in the same period was 17.7%. Shared cloud infrastructure spending is expected to grow 57.9% Y/Y with dedicated cloud infrastructure spending growth projected at 20.4% Y/Y. Non-cloud infrastructure spending is expected to grow 11.7% Y/Y. Long term, IDC predicts spending on cloud infrastructure (compute and storage) to have a compound growth rate 18.1 from 2023-2028 and accounting for 76.4% of total compute and storage infrastructure spending by 2028 with shared cloud infrastructure spending being 78.6% of total cloud spending by 2028. Samsung’s Android 15 Leak—Bad News For Nearly All Galaxy Owners Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Release Date Leaks Samsung Slashes Galaxy Z Fold 6 Price In Early January Sale Developing AI workloads will have an impact on storage and memory demand. Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat, said that Enterprise storage infrastructure will take on a new role as the foundation for retrieval-augmented generation, RAG. RAG is a GenAI-centric framework for augmenting, refining and optimizing the output of AI models including large language models, LLMs, and small language models, SLMs). RAG can eliminate the need for continually re-training models, reducing the costs of these models and can reduce the incidence of AI hallucinations. Infinidat announced its RAG workflow deployment architecture in November 2024. Infinidat is also joining efforts to defend data stores from cyberattacks. As part of its data protection capabilities. At the first sign of a cyberattack an immutable snapshot is taken of data to automatically reduce the impact of an attack. Infinidat also projects growth in hybrid multi-cloud storage in 2025. This brings together on-premises/private cloud and public cloud storage resources to enable high levels of flexibility, cost efficiency and use case-specific solutions. AWS and Azure are able to assist with such efforts. Infinidat announced such services with AWS and Microsoft in 2023 using the company’s InfuzeOS software defined storage, SDS, solution. Infinidat also says that non-VM based virtualization and Kubernetes/container deployments will increase in 2025. Steve Leeper, VP of Product Marketing at Datadobi, says that, “The amount of unstructured data stored in both public cloud and private cloud environments will continue to grow. The impact of unstructured data management solutions that give customers the ability to manage data no matter where it is located will increase as the data in multiple environments accumulates. It’s no longer realistic to ignore the fact that, in most organizations, data lives in a hybrid environment and global data management is required.” In addition, he indicated that with the growth of unstructured data there is a greater need for data insights to create GENAI-ready data. Don Boxley, CEO and co-founder of DH2i says that AI can be used to create self-optimized high availability, HA, clusters, where, “AI eliminates...inefficiencies by continuously analyzing workloads and resource usage, allowing clusters to self-optimize and maintain peak performance without manual oversight.” He also says that AI-driven HA clustering can help maintain HA across different cloud environments by managing clusters spanning multiple providers. Boxley says that, “AI simplifies cross-cloud HA by dynamically analyzing traffic and distributing workloads intelligently across providers, ensuring seamless performance and responsiveness.” AI data demand will increase the need for archiving data. Gal Naor, CEO of StorONE says that, “The exponential growth of data in 2025 will significantly increase storage costs as organizations face the challenge of retaining cold data for extended periods. Although rarely accessed, this data must remain secure, easily accessible and cost-efficient.” In addition, “Auto Tiering storage solutions will dynamically migrate inactive data to low-cost drives while ensuring rapid access for future analysis, reducing overall costs without compromising efficiency.” Also, “With rising cyber threats, fast and cost-effective recovery will be critical. Intelligent architectures will store snapshots on economical tiers while ensuring immediate availability for recovery, enhancing both preparedness and cost management.” Skip Levens, Product Leader and AI Strategist for Media and Entertainment at Quantum, had some comments on AI growth in 2025 and its impact on digital storage demand. He says that, “In 2025, organizations that take a more pragmatic approach to AI—and its underlying data infrastructure—will be best prepared to fuel new insights and power discovery.” He also talks about who the winners will be, “Those who are leading the data race are the ones who are not only leveraging every scrap of their collected data for differentiated AI outcomes, but those who have an infrastructure and process in place for effectively doing so—managing, organizing, indexing, and cataloging every piece of it. They’ll produce more, faster, and better results than their competitors. In 2025, we’ll start to see who leaps ahead in this new ‘data and algorithm arms race.” Members of the Active Archive Alliance also had comments related to the growth of archive data to support 2025 workflows. Rich Godomski, Head of Tape Evangelism with FujiFilm NA Corp., Data Storage Solutions, say that, “Sustainable active archive solutions with intelligent data management capabilities can leverage ultra energy efficient and extremely cost-effective tiers of storage such as S3 compatible object-based tape libraries. This will be needed to offset the voracious energy consumption of truly cutting-edge and breakthrough AI applications as the AI age evolves in 2025 and beyond.” Paul Luppino, Director of Global Digital Solutions at Iron Mountain, said that, “Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize data storage and active archives by enhancing efficiency and accessibility. As data volumes soar, we can optimize storage management by predicting usage patterns and minimizing costs, potentially making decisions about how and where to store data at the point of creation. In the realm of active archives, AI can analyze and prioritize data, ensuring frequently accessed information is readily available while less critical data is stored cost-effectively. Automated classification, tagging, and indexing could simplify the search process, allowing for intelligent data handling.” Mark Pastor with Platform Product Management at Western Digital said that, “...disaggregated storage...has been proven to deliver the performance and capacity required to meet the requirements of demanding GPU-related workloads which are at the heart of AI and machine learning processes. Disaggregating storage from the server accomplishes two key things: (1) it enables storage to be shared across multiple servers offering greater flexibility and utilization of storage resources, and (2) demonstrations show that disaggregated storage delivers the performance needed to keep GPU processing fully saturated. Over time these external storage architectures will become standard with HDD for active archives and with flash for performance workloads and will ultimately migrate to fabric as opposed to SAS given the convenience and distance benefits of fabrics.” Jason Lohrey, CEO of Arcitecta also emphasized the value of fabric shared storage, saying that, “Businesses can maximize their existing investments and avoid vendor lock-in by leveraging a data fabric—an architecture that unifies cloud, disk, tape, and flash storage into a single, logical namespace. This trend towards virtualization allows for a more flexible approach to data management, enabling businesses to mix and match technologies to meet specific needs.” Ted Oade, Director of Product Marketing at Spectra Logic also talks about how archive storage practices can help create more sustainable AI workloads and create competitive advantages, “Modern tape storage is not only highly durable but also incredibly energy-efficient, particularly when compared to disk storage. By offloading cold data to tape in an active archive, data centers can free up energy for AI workloads, maximizing efficiency. As energy becomes a factor potentially limiting the growth of AI, businesses that embrace sustainable practices will gain a competitive edge in 2025 and beyond” 2025 promises increased demand for storage devices, systems and software to support the growth of AI data processing. AI will increasingly be used to make digital storage more efficient and safer. Digital storage and memory architectures may play an important role in more sustainable AI data centers.
VDIAGTOOL makes car diagnostics great againSuper Bowl LIX is scheduled for Sunday, February 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the National Football League 's ( NFL ) Saints. The Super Bowl will kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET. How to Watch the Super Bowl Super Bowl LIX will be broadcast on FOX and will be available for streaming on Fubo and the FOX Sports app. Who Is Singing the National Anthem? Jon Batiste, a five-time Grammy winner, is set to sing the national anthem. Christian recording artist Lauren Daigle will sing "America the Beautiful" with Trombone Shorty. R&B vocalist Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Who Is Performing the Halftime Show? Compton, California, rapper Kendrick Lamar, a 17-time Grammy winner, will be the halftime performer. The September announcement followed the release of one of Lamar's most popular songs "Not Like Us." The smash song was a result of his ongoing rap beef with Drake. The 37-year-old rapper made headlines all summer regarding the historic rap feud with the Canadian artist. "Not Like Us" was the last of five diss tracks released by Lamar amid the rap battle. The song quickly emerged as a West Coast anthem. No special guests have been announced to appear with Lamar at the Super Bowl, however, the rapper previously headlined the 2022 Super Bowl with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige. Who Is Likely to Play in the Super Bowl? Led by star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs (+360), are favored to win the Lombardi Trophy, once again, after securing the best record in the American Football Conference (AFC) and a first-round bye. The Detroit Lions (+400) are favored to represent the National Football Conference (NFC). The Buffalo Bills (+475) and Philadelphia Eagles (+500) are considered their primary competition, with the Baltimore Ravens (+650) also in contention. Completing the list of top teams with better than 30-1 odds are two NFC North teams: the Minnesota Vikings (13-1) and the Green Bay Packers (14-1). The Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans and Los Angeles Chargers have clinched playoff berths, and each has 40-1 odds to win the Super Bowl. There are still two weeks left in the regular season as a handful of division titles and playoffs spots remain up for grabs. When Was the Super Bowl Last Played in New Orleans? Super Bowl LIX will mark the 11th time the Super Bowl has been held in New Orleans since 1970. Super Bowl IV, VI and IX were played at Tulane Stadium. Since then, beginning with Super Bowl XII in 1978, the Superdome has been the event's host. In the last New Orleans' Super Bowl, the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII at the then-named Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013. The game is largely remembered for a 34-minute power outage at the Superdome that halted the game and seemed to shift the contest's momentum. The Ravens led 28-6 at the time of the outage, early in the third quarter, only to see the 49ers score 17 points in the span of 4 minutes to close the gap before Baltimore held on to win the franchise's second title. What to Know About Ceasars Superdome Renovations The 73,000-seat Caesars Superdome has undergone a host of renovations totaling in hundreds of millions of dollars since Hurricane Katrina peeled off a large portion of the building's roof in 2005. In 2006, the Superdome reopened after a multiphase renovation that cost over $200 million. The renovation included a new roof, video board, concessions stands, kitchens and upgraded seats. In 2020, a new, $560 million round of renovations began, including removing concrete ramps and replacing them with stairs and elevators. 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Unlike algorithmic games like Wordle, Connections pushes players to think creatively, drawing on linguistic nuances, cultural references, and word associations. If today’s puzzle has left you scratching your head, we’ve got the hints and answers to help you master game #567, as mentioned in a report by How To Geek. 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