This week, we discuss Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté.
I have three screens. I have enough screen space.
I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit.
This direct shit.
Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan.
I think about this every day “Work is punishment.”
We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things.
It’s ready to be PowerPointed.
Members Only Security Discussion.
Hackin’ the mainframe.
They love themselves the McGlauglin group.
Back on the Funnel.
“Work is Punishment.”
Rundown
Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent partiesAuthenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA)There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the softwareEnabling transparency for software artifactsCreate ways to trust the build process Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other CompaniesResearcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attackSteve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsofta16z pushing product - “DIRECT”The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen HorowitzMark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the futureCartaX - Andreessen HorowitzSecuritySolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based AttackCyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attackApple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation BugMonitoring and ObservabilityAnnouncing Change IntelligenceAnchor it around what’s changed.Go Serverless!Bitcoin HODL ChartMigrate Everything to OpenBSD…?Relevant to your interests
SoftBankSoftBank: piecing the puzzle together SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee earlyM&A, VC and PartnersPalantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largestReddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuationKong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud ConnectivityBox acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflowsIt’s AWS not A.W.S.How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff BezosAmazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlandsdiimdeep/awesome-split-keyboardsApple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple CarFacebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about itTickets to SpaceThey Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored periodSorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop. Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F.Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed?Greater fool theoryNonsense
Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the looseMIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emailsMass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On VideoNamingFacebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With ClubhouseSuspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” Sponsors
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