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Episode 298: Come on Gophers


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This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.

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  • Red Hat
    • Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
    • Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
    • RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
    • AWS
      • Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
      • AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
      • The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
      • The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
      • Relevant to your interests
        • Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
        • DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
        • How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
        • Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
        • About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
        • How Basecamp blew up
        • Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
        • The ransomware surge ruining lives
        • Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
        • The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned.
        • AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
        • Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
        • Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
        • Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
        • In huge demand right now: Warehouses
        • Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
        • Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
        • Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
        • Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
        • Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
        • Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
        • Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
        • New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
        • How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
        • Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
        • ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
        • Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
        • Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
        • Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
        • "Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant)
        • Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
        • Nonsense
          • 'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
          • Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
          • Meet Einstein
          • Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO
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