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Episode 487: WordPress Drama and Chicken Sandwiches

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This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.

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Runner-up Titles
  • Time change is a-comin’.
  • Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
  • Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
  • Waffle Chips
  • Free Refills and Ice
  • The tyranny of no free refills
  • Take the Five Guy approach
  • You can’t change the rules in the race
  • Fill the square
    • Rundown
    • Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
    • Wordpress
      • Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
      • The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
      • How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
      • Charitable Contributions
      • OpenAI
        • New funding to scale the benefits of AI
        • OpenAI Is A Bad Business
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          • Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans
          • OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition
          • Intel's Transformation 2.0
          • Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide
          • Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit
          • Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel
          • Pure Storage announces VM assessment service
          • Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
          • Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models
          • The streaming wars are over.
          • Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon
          • Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power
          • Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
          • Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster
          • Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M
          • How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
          • How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards
            • Nonsense
            • A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things
            • Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
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