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- Episode 505: There Could be Extra Innings
This week, we discuss cloud’s never-ending “early innings,” OpenAI Canvas vs. Gemini, and Dell’s RTO reversal. Plus, is there such a thing as too much optimism?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 505
Runner-up Titles- Fastball to the head
- Not enough AI eggs
- Toxic Positivity
Rundown- Cote’s Early Innings Research
- Slides and stream recording of presenting it at cfgmgmtcamp 2025
- Cloud Revenue
- Microsoft Q2 cloud revenue falls short of expectations, sending the stock lower
- Alphabet shares drop as much as 9% on revenue miss, soaring AI investments
- Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition
- DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
- DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
- Dell RTO Timeline
- Aug 2020: Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly
- March 2024: ****Dell says remote workers must go hybrid if they want any hope of a promotion
- Jan 2025: Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge
- 5 Signs Your Optimism Is Hurting Your Team
Relevant to your Interests- Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too
- Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
- 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
- What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
- DOGE, Software, and Government
- DOJ sues to block HP Enterprise from buying Juniper Networks
- Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’
- There’s Something Very, Very Wrong With Tech Today.
- Microsoft Enforces Tougher Layoff Rules: No Severance, Immediate Termination
- Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
- uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
- Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
- Palantir soars 24% to record high as AI powers strong earnings and guidance
- 'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome
- AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications
- OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
- Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
- Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox
- OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Ue
- Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
- Gurman: Apple is launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti" - 9to5Mac
Nonsense- Funny note from JP Morgan Analyst about Tesla
- Waffle House is passing along the sky-high cost of eggs to diners with a 50-cent surcharge
- Optimized Charging
Listener Feedback- ChatGPT Explains the difference between ‘.bashrc` and .bash_profile
- Optimized Charging
Conferences- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
- VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
- DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
- SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
- Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
- Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
- NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
- KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Blackstone Griddle
- Matt: The Flaming Lips Live
- Coté:
- ChatGPT Canvas
- Couches (direct link).
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1 hr - Episode 504: Socrates Didn’t Whiteboard
This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 504
Runner-up Titles- The Paperclip Apocalypse
- Markets Over Management
- The Nest Egg
- This is cheaper than therapy
- Valentine’s Day
- “Turns out, guys…”
- You can burn a candle out, and when it’s out there’s no candle.
- I don’t think Jensen is struggling
Rundown- DeepSeek
- China's DeepSeek appears to have built AI models that rival OpenAI, while allegedly using much less money, chips, and energy.
- DeepSeek FAQ
- DeepSeek and the Enterprise
- Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
- DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
- Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls
- Bonus Clouded Judgement - Inference Time Compute
- CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo
Relevant to your Interests- Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision
- Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service
- FTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Updates to Children's Privacy Rule
- FTC Finalizes Changes to Children’s Privacy Rule Limiting Companies’ Ability to Monetize Kids’ Data
- Free OpenAI & every-LLM API Pricing Calculator
- GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
- Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models
- We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep CE
- Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
- "Digital shoplifting" is on the rise among the well-off Gen Z crowd
- Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
- Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs?
- Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers’ update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%
- Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI
Nonsense- Why Speaking Like a Wanker at Work Is Essential
- Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid off
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
- VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
- DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
- SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
- Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
- Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
- NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
- KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Paradise
- Matt: Tell me which Ardupilot/PX4 Autopilot platform I should buy?
- Holybro X500 v2 or QAV250 dev kit?
- Coté:
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- “The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces,” Michael Polkinghorn, in Candlekeep Mysteries.
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1 hr 8 min - Episode 503: Maybe Puppies Solve Everything
This week, we explore how AI is reshaping software development, the slow adoption of Service Mesh, and the latest effort to modernize the U.S. Government. Plus, chili debates, and Wiz proves puppies make everything better.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 503
Runner-up Titles- Just start it, I’ll catch up
- Let’s not get distracted by the corn
- AI’s never eaten a bowl of chili, Brandon.
- No beans for you
- Streetfights about chili
- Get out of my right pane
- Single Thread Pizza
- That is a response to a problem I don’t want to have.
- This is not listener feedback, this is more Matt feedback.
Rundown- Visual Studio Code helped Microsoft win developers. New AI coding editors want to own the future
- Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $105 Million
- Model Distillation
- DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks
- Istio Creators on Mistakes To Avoid for Any Project
- Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech
- Trump’s Treasury pick pledges to keep IRS Direct File open this tax season
Relevant to your Interests- This Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
- The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End
- Thoma Bravo-owned SailPoint reveals narrower loss in US IPO filing
- The First Big Trump Scam Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone’s Faces
- We’re in the Netflix-opens-a-restaurant stage of the cycle.
- Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic
- Product Name Changes
- Gartner: VMware migrations will be long, costly, and risky
- Developers and IT folks, please be careful when installing Homebrew
- Capital One gives update on deposit issues as customers demand answers
- Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
- Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof
Nonsense- This Southern Grocery Store Was Just Named The Best In The Nation And We're Not Surprised
- Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
- New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account
Listener Feedback- Wiz has gone to the dogs (puppies)?
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
- SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
- Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
- Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
- NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
- KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Silo and Severance
- Matt: Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg
- Coté:
- Brian Gracely interview on this week’s Software Defined Interviews.
- Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophic Life,
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59 min - Episode 502: Have a Plan or Throw It Away
This week, we cover the Sonos executive shake-up, AWS CEO Matt Garman's take on AI, and check in on OpenTofu’s growth. Plus, some thoughts on broken windows and Emacs no longer being preinstalled on macOS.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 502
Runner-up Titles- Anecdote Investigations.
- The Software Defined Elves are gonna send you a RØDECaster.
- Well, maybe we should talk about emacs more!
- I still have a box of cables
- Buy One, Pay for One
- If it’s fine, it’s fine
Rundown- Sonos’ interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees
- Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
- Sonos Chief Product Officer to Leave; Interim CEO to Take Role
- AI’s payoff will be massive, says AWS CEO Matt Garman
- OpenTofu Turns One With OpenTofu 1.9.0
- macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs
Relevant to your Interests- The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
- 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI | CNN Business
- How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes
- Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine
- How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools
- Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"
- Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’ – Pixel Envy
- #6907 Kong-ingress-controller 3.4 has high CPU usage when running 2 pods
- Survey: AI Tools are Increasing Amount of Bad Code Needing to be Fixed
- Exclusive | Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something
- A new AI-powered security tool is promising to reinvent how companies secure login credentials
- Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
- Mullenweg's Grip On WordPress Challenged In New Court Filing
- Apple's AI feature just can’t get it right
- Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
- Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization
Nonsense- DirecTV to offer 'MySports,' a smaller streaming package of 40 channels
- Drake Sues His Label, Calling Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Defamatory
- Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something
Listener Feedback- Capture AI’s Low-Hanging Fruit with Agents
- The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work
****## Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Capital One Café
- Matt:
- The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
- Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service logo
- Coté: Splatoon
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1 hr 4 min - Episode 501: Checkbox Features
This week, we dive into the state of SBOMs, what’s going on with Harness, and the ongoing collision of tech and politics. Plus, Coté finds himself a stranger in the Texas he once called home.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 501
Runner-up Titles- Who knows what’s going to happen on that side of the planet?
- There are no hacks in The Netherlands.
- I know it’s not the quality.
- An explosion of Eggnog
- The resident American American
- This topic will be boring
- Thank goodness it’s part of my existing vendor relationship
- It’s a webhook, knock yourself out
- They unlocked Ayn Rand
- Hacking it on the mainland
Rundown- Rust Will Explode, SBOMs Will Be Duds: Open Source Predictions
- Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on "startups within startups"
- Marc Andreessen on Trump, the vibe shift, and what’s after wokeness
- A 2-hour interview with Andreessen
Relevant to your Interests- Penpot unfolds their new open-source business model
- Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
- 15 predictions for 2025
- Ray-Ban Meta Crosses 1-Million Mark
- Google Slashes 10% Of Managerial Staff In Hunt For 'Googleyness': Report
- Resilience in Software Foundation
- Amazon Delays RTO Mandate for Thousands of Workers Due to Space
- Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes to open-source project
- 5.6 Million Impacted by Ransomware Attack on Healthcare Giant Ascension
- Yoast CEO calls for a 'federated' approach to WordPress repository
- Netflix sues Broadcom in California federal court
- Rust Will Explode, SBOMs Will Be Duds: Open Source Predictions
- OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company
- How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes
- WordPress Developer Publishes Code To Block Mullenweg's
- Apple stops Vision Pro production amid weak demand and customer dissatisfaction
- Intel’s Problems Are Even Worse Than You’ve Heard
- Disney to combine its Hulu+ Live TV with streamer Fubo
- Parameter Manager overview | Google Cloud
- Nvidia showcases new AI gaming chips that promise high-quality images
- Veracode bolsters SCA product with Phylum acquisition
- 1Password acquires Trelica to extend its cybersecurity capabilities
- Dell Announces All-New Branding with Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max Laptops
Nonsense- Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
- The Great Exhibition unveils the world's only office roller coaster in Stockholm
- Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It’s Making Italians Angry
Listener Feedback- Join the Dagster Labs team: Software Engineer - Platform
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
- Matt: Rosehaven
- Coté:
- Apple Notes and the rest of the toolchain
- The Forever Notes method of using Apple Notes.
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1 hr 7 min - Episode 500: 2024 Year in Review
This week, we recap the biggest tech news and trends of 2024, grade our predictions from the year, and look ahead to 2025. Plus, we share our New Year’s resolutions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 500
Runner-up Titles- I blame Product Management
- I don’t think I’m gonna buy a pair of jeans this year.
- Should I go full Kirkland?
- That’s a boring prediction, but a good prediction
- We need the Dril for LinkedIn
- 2024: the year we internalized the rug pull
- Are you an artist or a house painter?
- The Suicide Squad Strategy
- SSH is failure.
- Resolutions
Rundown- Revisiting 2024 Predictions
- Apple Vision Pro
- Twitter vs. Threads vs. Mastodon vs. Bluesky
- News and Trends from 2024
- Open Source License Changes
- Antitrust Investigations
- AI Is Everywhere
- Platform Engineering
- Listener Questions
- What’s worked well for the podcast?
- What tips do you have for aspiring podcasters?
- How did NO SSH JJ and Tasty Meats Paul get their nicknames?
- 2025 Predictions
- Ray-Ban Meta Glasses will not be widely adopted.
- Apple will keep trying with the Vision Pro, but not much will happen.
- Federation between social sites will not gain traction; social silos will remain the norm.
- Nvidia will continue to grow and exert dominance.
- Tech monopolies will persist, but no significant remedies will be imposed.
- 2025 Resolutions
- I will accept that OSS projects may change their licenses and adapt accordingly.
- I will remain calm when OSS projects stop offering easy-to-use, free versions.
- I will accept that hyperscalers hosting or monetizing OSS projects is inevitable.
- I will see forking OSS projects after a license change as a natural evolution of open source.
- I will use AI to summarize my writing and send the summary if it communicates my point more effectively.
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Best Recommendation of 2024- Brandon:
- YouTubeTV mostly for Sports Fans
- Balatro
- Coté: Google Home
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1 hr 14 min - Episode 499: Star, Archive, or Spam?
This week, Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely from The Cloudcast to tackle the top cloud news and trends of 2025. We sort through 12 big topics and decide which ones are still worth your time and which ones should be starred. archived, or marked as spam. Plus, some thoughts on Bill Belichick becoming the head coach at UNC.
Runner-up Titles- OpenAI’s Open Relationship
- Why are you doing this?
- The Pete Rose of Silicon Valley
- Commit Fraud in a Bull Market
- A Phone that Doesn’t Break
- Grouchy
- Parenting Teenagers
Rundown- Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI: The next wave of innovation and industry impact
- Nvidia’s Role in AI: The power behind the AI boom
- Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Strategy: How Microsoft is positioning itself for the future
- AWS Updates: Key trends and new services from the cloud leader
- Open Source Licensing: Trends, challenges, and changes
- Kubernetes and the CNCF Ecosystem: What’s next for cloud-native computing
- Data Sovereignty and Regulations: How laws are shaping cloud strategies globally
- Repatriation: Is on-prem making a comeback?
- Broadcom/VMware: The fallout and what it means for cloud customers
- Return to Office vs. Work From Home: Policies, debates, and where things stand
- Apple’s Cloud Ambitions: Is Apple finally serious about cloud?
- Bill Belichick at UNC: Leadership lessons from an unexpected crossover
Relevant to your Interests- Subscribe to The Cloudcast
- China Opens Investigation Into Nvidia Over Potential Antitrust Violations
- Gnomes (South Park)
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
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53 min - Episode 498: I’m not ready to start a new streak
This week, we discuss Jeff Barr’s departure from AWS, OpenAI’s latest announcements, and Broadcom’s AI ambitions. Plus, Matt debates the finer points of Australian vs. American Apple Intelligence.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 498
Runner-up Titles- That’s a streak
- That’s not a thing
- I miss the cold-calling lifestyle
- I miss being a JSON engineer
- I have trust issues with AI
- The metaphor was good
- Welcome to the treadmill
Rundown- Jeff Barr leaves AWS: And that’s a wrap!
- 12 Days of OpenAI (6-9)
- Day 6: Advanced voice with video & Santa mode
- Day 7: Projects in ChatGPT
- Day 8: Search
- Day 9: OpenAI o1 and new tools for developers
- API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues
- Broadcom
- Broadcom shares rise 13% on profit beat, 'massive' opportunity in AI
- Nvidia falls into correction territory, down more than 10% from its record close
- VMware And Custom AI Chips: Broadcom’s Recipe For Explosive Growth
Relevant to your Interests- Republican lawmakers ask Trump to kill IRS Direct File
- Adobe delivers strong Q4, record Firefly generations, but light outlook
- Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability
- Duolingo has bucked the post-pandemic blues in edtech
- Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues Incident Report for OpenAI
- AWS re:Invent 2024 - Best practices and new tools for cost reporting and estimation
- BlackBerry sells Cylance for $160M, a fraction of the $1.4B it paid in 2018
- EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk's Starlink
- Nuon Seed + Series-A Funding
- Databricks to Hit $62 Billion Valuation in Massive Funding Round
- Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses
- A vision for Android XR
- Gemini 2.0: Our latest, most capable AI model yet
- China orbits first Guowang Internet satellites, with thousands more to come
- Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown
Nonsense- Trump says GOP will push to eliminate daylight saving time
- Gen Z says no to slim fit pants
- The 1000-Foot High Rollercoaster Dream
- Timey Wimey
## Listener Feedback- Great site collating AWS reInvent sessions along with their slides
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon: ChatGPT Mac App
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1 hr 3 min - Episode 497: Big Math
This week, we discuss the 12 Days of OpenAI, the latest in quantum computing, and Nvidia’s unique management style. Plus, Coté shares his thoughts on turkeys and BBQ.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 497
Runner-up Titles- Go full-on American
- Multiple days of meat
- Advent of Meat
- Fowl Day
- ChopOps
- Fractured and Scattered
- Mr. Mahalo
Rundown- 12 Days of OpenAI
- Update on ChatGPT's impressive growth
- The phony comforts of AI skepticism
- Quantum Computing
- Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
- Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip
Relevant to your Interests- Intel’s Search for a CEO
- Intel names two chip industry veterans to its board amid CEO search
- Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel | The Observation Deck
- Ousted Intel CEO asks people to “pray and fast” for staff
- He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead.
- Sundar Pichai says Google Search will ‘change profoundly’ in 2025
- Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations
- Dev-Led Landscape: Transforming a Middle-Aged Startup
- China launches antitrust probe into Nvidia
- Confidential computing at 1Password
- The 50 best video games of 2024
- Chiplet Market Growth Forecast to US$411 Billion by 2035
- Cohesity completes its merger with Veritas; here's how they'll integrate
- Automattic acquires WPAI, a startup that makes AI products for WordPress
- The low-hanging fruit is gone; the hill is steeper now: Sundar Pichai on AI, Future of engg jobs
- What Analysts Are Saying After Oracle's Results Underwhelmed Investors
- Bill Staples on LinkedIn: I am honored and excited to lead GitLab into its next chapter as CEO
- From where I left (Redis)
- Amazon sued by DC attorney general for allegedly excluding neighborhoods from Prime delivery
Nonsense- Sinister USB-C connector
Listener Feedback- Intel after Gelsinger / Oxide
- Git ingest
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community- Join our Slack community
- Email the show: [email protected]
- Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
- Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
- Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
- Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
- Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations- Brandon:
- Amazon Smart Plug
- Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote
- Coté: Tanzu Platform 10 is GA’ed
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1 hr 15 min - Episode 496: It’s Not About Being Paranoid
This week, we discuss Intel’s CEO “resignation,” the rise of custom silicon, and the biggest announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some thoughts on the simple satisfaction of label makers.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 496
Runner-up Titles- re:Primitives
- Primitives, Re:invented
- Chatbots, Call Center Agents and Dev Co-Pilots.
- Thanksquitting
- Even the paranoid die
- Pardon me while I commoditize your business.
- Being paranoid has nothing to do with it
- This is a trailing indicator
- Robotic Cows.
- ARMchair Quarterbacking (that was funny!)
- Arm is going to get X86’d
- One Bill
Rundown- Intel
- Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
- Intel CEO Forced Out After Board Grew Frustrated With Progress
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