This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones…
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We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming.I live the middle.Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use.The lanyard is a child-management platform“That’s great, Brandon…”Finally DNS does something goodAmazon is a dog nowBut then what?N equals meRundown
Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud dealsAmazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four ExecutivesAmazon's heroic phase is overA Faster HorseLayoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employerReport: HPE has expressed interest in acquiring NutanixNutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami Talks Broadcom, VMware, And His VisionRelevant to your Interests
What if failure is the plan?Tensions Grew at Salesforce Between Co-CEOs Benioff and TaylorApple advances user security with powerful new data protectionsChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days.A good discussion on ChatGPT from Benedict EvansOpenAI ChatGPT is now an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner!Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer | The GitHub BlogAs Carvana crashes hard, used car dealers — not buyers — stand to win bigAmazon Wants to Kill the BarcodeRIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stableAn Introduction to Event-Driven ArchitecturesBroadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyoutAWS EventsNgrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50MThe death of Rackspace's ‘Fanatical Support’News aggregator Flipboard to add user-generated "conversations"Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4BJapan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to ChinaLSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnershipOracle beats on top and bottom linesHow Slack’s Marriage to Salesforce CrumbledNonsense
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