Software Defined Talk

Episode 536: My search engine couldn’t help me


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This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.

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Runner-up Titles
  • Buy once, cry once
  • Annual Recurring Regrets
  • The Bathtub Problem
  • Bathtime is My Time
  • Your Daily Stoic
  • No one cares about open source cold brew
  • Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
  • The Chrome ecoverse.
  • Rundown
    • The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
    • OpenAI starts building out its app team
    • OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
    • Reorganizations
      • Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
      • No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
      • Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
      • New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
      • Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules
      • Relevant to your Interests
        • Opinion | A.I. May Be Just Kind of Ordinary
        • Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
        • Zen Browser — What Mozilla Firefox Should Be?
        • Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down
        • How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon
        • Metal³ - Metal Kubed
        • How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
        • AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
        • Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
        • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
        • Tanzu having nothing to do with Kubernetes anymore
        • There is no Tanzu Kubenetes, only VKS.
        • Nvidia stock turns positive in premarket trading as investors buy dip following earnings report
        • MongoDB Soars: Analyzing the Recent Surge
        • NVIDIA Q2 Profit Soars 59% as Blackwell AI Surge Fuels Record Revenue
        • Nvidia, $NVDA, has reported that a single customer accounted for 23% of its total quarterly revenue of $46.7 billion, per Bloomberg
        • Nonsense
          • The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week
          • Conferences
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            • SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
            • Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
            • Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th.
            • CF Day EU, Coté speaking, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
            • AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th-16th, London. Use code SDT20 for 20% off.
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            • SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th.
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              • Recommendations
                • Brandon: GFiber
                • Matt: Zen web browser
                • Coté:
                  • Apple-brand woven USB cables (1 meter and 2 meter).
                  • Tenshi Sushi Duivendrecht
                  • Photo Credits

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