Buffer Overflow: Little Adorable Elephants
Episode 183
Bitcoin Bonanza, Waymo data than I wanted, and timely TikTok updates

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

• Bitcoin shall rise again!
• Waymo releases crash data and humans are terrible drivers
• Nasdaq, like Alexander Hamilton, will never be satisfied
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/amazon-cloud-revenue-jumps-29percent-in-line-with-expectations.html
  • https://news.microsoft.com/2020/10/27/microsoft-cloud-strength-fuels-first-quarter-results-2/
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-q3-earnings-google-cloud-growth-2020-10
• Warren receives additional funding to help local clouds
• TikTok Ban Update
• What did the poor llama ever do to you!?!
• Newest Raspberry Pi release features the entire computer built into a keyboard
• Latest Microsoft Kernel bug gives local attackers privilege escalation
• The ISS is celebrating their 20th birthday with a virtual tour

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: McBroken United
Episode 182
Quibi’s Conundrum, another British Invasion, and Google Kills Stuff Again

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Quibi’s quintessential quagmire is concluded Lightning Round

• That’s the password to my luggage!
• McBroken
• SNAP Pilot for Instacart
• The British are coming! ...to the rescue of climate change (hopefully)
• Wait. Google killed a service that people liked a lot? Say it ain’t so
• Sandbox Processes finally coming to Firefox

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Extreme Plus Platinum Edition
Episode 181
Shiny Science Roundup, Apple iDontCare, and Twitter Deep State

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Ooo Shiny! The Round Up

• Superfast charging battery
• Room Temperature Superconductor
• DART Mission

• WeWork is back!  (Crickets...)
• Ars Technica review the Surface Duo and OUCH
• Apple launches new phones and destroys my RSS reader timeline for a day
• Another Twitter Hiccup
• Microsoft cravenly chases advertising dollars with webtool Manifest v3
• Netflix cuts available bandwidth in half, claims picture will be better

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Turkey Vulture Vomit
Episode 180
Mozilla’s in Trouble, Too Many Chefs, and a Raspberry Pi Fling

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankyee/

Mozilla is in trouble and now it’s trying to be all business-y

• The recent fix for Twitter that required accessing the about:serviceworkers menus
• https://webcompat.com
• https://profiler.firefox.com

• Crypto-security Kook Clapped for Currency Claptrap 
• Too Many Chefs in the Kitchen?
• Have a Fling with a Raspberry Pi!
• Movies…We’ll always have next year?
• IBM & NewCo
• All Hail 747. The Chonkest Bear of them All

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Fluted Crying Pillow
Episode 179
What’s up with TikTok, Microsoft’s super fun, awesome week, and HBO versus Roku

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankyee/

TikTok and ya don’t stop

• VMware is getting Salty Acquisition
• Not a great week for Microsoft’s Cloud
  • Outage of Azure Active Directory for approximately 2.5 hours
  • Office 365 services were experiencing authentication issues for about six hours
  • Outlook Online and the Outlook Web Client were unavailable for about three hours
• Major Outage? Better call 9-1-1, Oh crap
• Following Apples lead, Google to force purchase through their store
• What if we get to the "Year Of The Linux Desktop" because Microsoft gives up on Windows?
• HBO v Roku: For Never Was a Story of More Woe…

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Blame the Poltergeist
Episode 178
Microsoft Ignite 2020, Troll Roll Call, and a Burning Ring of Fire?

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

FINE CHRIS, I’LL TALK ABOUT MICROSOFT IGNITE

• Calling all trolls!
• We’ve got your Christmas present for your grandma
• Oh my goodness - so many questions!
• Great News, everyone! This time it actually WAS a bug in Instagram!
• TV rots your brain, and sometimes.. nukes your broadband?

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Blackholed Chads
Episode 177
Blackholapaluz, Blizzard of Wall Street, and High-pitched alligators

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Blackholapaluza

• Stellar Blackholes: about 3-65 solar masses
• Intermediate-mass blackholes: 100-100,000 solar masses
• Supermassive blackholes: Millions - billions of solar masses
• Why are we talking about black holes again?
• May 21st 2019, the LIGO gravity wave detector in the US and the Virgo gravity wave detector in Italy both detect a massive fluctuation in gravity waves from about 17 billion light years away

• Nvidia is hoping to get a leg up with ARM acquisition
• Snowflake has a stellar IPO
• Helium filled alligators, poop knives, and narcissistic eyebrows
• Facebook sued, again, for improperly activating users phone cameras
• Apple had a random event this week.. Nobody seems to have noticed
• Apple pisses off developers with surprise release of iOS 14

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Blunt Puncture Wound
Episode 176
Adorable Robot Armageddon, Gartner Magic Domino, and Come on Feel the Office Noise

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

The Robot Uprising Will Be More Adorable Than Expected

• Ford Motor Company announced that they are rolling out usage of the Boston Dynamics dog-like robot product known as “Spot.”
• Ford is really leaning into the cute dog angle, releasing photos of Fluffy in his dog bed
• Some other jobs that Spot has done for other contracts
• Moley the Robotic Chef
• Jibo the Social Robot
• Fun fact: There is actually a sequel to the Ikea: Lamp ad, released in 2018
• 2013 a Military detachment in Iraq gave their bomb-disarming robot (appropriately named “Boomer”) a Bronze star and a full funeral

• Need a break from the virtual Zoom hellscape? Try your hand at creating your own Lo-Fi music
• Speaking of Zoom, 2FA is now free for all accounts
• Your face is safe in Portland
• Latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud is Out, Total Snoozefest
• Which Bluetooth device did you pair with? It’s all a BLUR.
• A good anvil does not fear the hammer

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: Sad Leaf Juice
Episode 175
Tech Exodus, Blue Origins, and Nominal Grifting

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Max Urban Exodus from SF

• https://www.ft.com/content/5f6679fe-6327-4a18-a7a0-b4a270b34b0f
• https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/08/05/poll-finds-that-15-of-bay-area-tech-workers.html
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-hiring-slumps-in-Bay-Area-nationwide-but-15485357.php#:~:text=Nationwide%2C%20the%20unemployment%20rate%20topped,CompTIA%2C%20an%20industry%20trade%20group

• Rich man crafts some gifts for his rich friends using his very own space company
• It’s Lucky Number 13 for Certificates
• Local Man Ruins Everything
• Nominet wants you to renew a domain you never registered
• The Podcasts are Unionizing
• TikTok Roadblock

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B

Buffer Overflow: A Mighty Din
Episode 174
Y Combinator Demo Day, TikTok Tomfoolery, and Gaming Chairs for Champions

Ned Bellavance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, ISG Operations
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/

Y Combinator Demo Day

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/here-are-the-98-companies-from-y-combinators-summer-2020-demo-day-1/
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/here-are-the-94-companies-from-y-combinators-summer-2020-demo-day-2/ar-BB18mvTm

Ned’s Top Ten:

1. Adyn
2. Inspectify
3. Hellosaurus
4. Statiq
5. OpenBiome
6. KiteKRAFT
7. Queue
8. Osmind
9. Intelline
10. CapWay

• It’s 2020, Oracle wants to buy TikTok, and everything is stupid
• Flash wasn’t all bad right?
• Mozilla lays off 250 and is in dire financial distress because Google?
• An Artistic Interpretation of an Artistic Interpretation
• Tri-Color Weave of Badassery
• One man’s nuclear waste is another’s 28,000 year battery

Intro: Jason Shaw - Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B