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Episode 426: There’s no more backpacks to buy


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This week, we discuss New Relic going private, Dell buying Moogsoft and digital transformation comes to Border Control. Plus, ideas for a last minute family vacation.

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Runner-up Titles
  • The Paris economy is all croissants.
  • The Euphoria of the Buffet
  • All that firing people gave us a soft landing.
  • Is it going to be New Logic, or SumoRelic?
  • You drive a hard bargain, now we’re billionaires
  • The tinfoil hat of complexity
  • Just buy more backpacks
  • Here in the United States, we have a lot of banks.
  • Can Americans use it?
  • Bigger numbers are smaller numbers.
  • It’s pretty easy to quarantine with Internet.
  • Rundown
    • More Monitoring, More Money
      • Dell Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Moogsoft
      • What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS by @ttunguz
      • Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic
      • Francisco Partners & TPG to take New Relic private in $6 billion all-cash deal
      • Inside the $6.5 billion buyout of New Relic
      • Government IT
        • Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow® Service, is now live
        • CBP Goes Paperless with Global Entry
        • Mexico Phasing Out Use of Paper Visitor Permits (FMM)
        • New requirements coming in 2024 for Americans traveling to Europe
        • Passport Palooza
        • Relevant to your Interests
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          • Broadcom claims VMware's strategy isn’t succeeding
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          • Investors and business owners for 3x more likely to invest after reading a GPT-4 pitch deck
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          • Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
          • Jamin Ball (@jaminball) on Threads
          • Introducing NotebookLM
          • Ford CEO explains why legacy car manufacturers cannot compete with Tesla in software
          • Cloudflare as an AI play. An interview with CEO Matthew Prince.
          • This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!
          • The Rise Of DIY In FinOps
          • Announcing Akita Has Joined Postman — Akita Software
          • Announcing the New Lightweight Postman API Client | Postman Blog
          • Does ‘Buy American’ Policy Make Sense? The Answer Is Key for Your AI Portfolio Too
          • AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro
          • Twitter becomes X
          • The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
          • Meta Profit Is Up 16% to $7.8 Billion in Recent Quarter
          • Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023 | Amazon Web Services
          • AWS Easily Beats Microsoft In $120B IaaS Cloud Market: Gartner
          • Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games
          • Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
          • The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
          • Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more
          • A Day in the Life of a Senior Manager at Amazon
          • 7 generative AI innovations from AWS Summit New York 2023
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          • Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers
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          • AMD revenue falls 18% as PC market shows continued weakness
          • From Docker to Dagger with Solomon Hykes (Changelog Interviews #550)
          • A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit
          • Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers
          • Q2 2023 is the largest quarter ever in the number of startup closures.
          • VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them
          • VC firm says their companies are good/leading, and you should invest in them too
          • Nonsense
            • FIGHTING
            • The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don’t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020)
            • Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts
            • Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans ‘don’t believe in water’
            • The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back
            • Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually
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