Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Friday, August 30th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Shares of Dell Technologies climbed over 4%.

It comes off the back of strong earnings the company released yesterday,

showing searching demand for its artificial intelligence servers. The company's overall

server revenue blew away Wall Street expectations, increasing 80% compared to last year

to nearly 7.7 billion dollars.

Sh shipments of AI servers in particular nearly doubled from last quarter.

Defense Company RTX has agreed to pay $200 million to settle allegations from the U.S. State Department

that it violated U.S. export controls.

These include transferring some of the technology behind Air Force One and U.S. military aircraft to China.

The company voluntarily disclosed violations at several of its business units,

according to the State Department. The State Department said it would suspend collecting half

of the penalty if RTX spends that money on compliance measures.

RTX said the settlement was in line with expectations.

And satellite internet business, Starlink, says Brazil has frozen its finances. In posts on X, Starlink, which is part

of Elon Musk's SpaceX, said the order was issued in secret and without due process.

The business says it plans to address the matter legally.

Yesterday on X, Musk said Starlink would provide free service to its users in Brazil

until the situation is resolved.

The move escalates tensions between Musk and Brazil's Supreme Court, which earlier this week

threatened to ban Musk's social media platform X if the company did not appoint a new legal

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