This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…
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Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth,Digital Transformation Travel EditionDelta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1The Southwest Airlines MeltdownSouthwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 MillionSouthwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiascoSouthwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limboPoint of Sale: Scan and PayWork LifeShopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to MeetingsNetflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary InformationU.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor ContractsGartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary informationSFDCSalesforce: There's no more Slack left to cutSalesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office SpaceAfter layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivityAI is everywhereGoogle execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technologyMicrosoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to GoogleMicrosoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPTWolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPTRelevant to your Interests
2023 Bum Steer of the Year: AustinTwitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced ChaosOn Organizational Structures and the Developer ExperienceKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing FoundationInside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startupElon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter FiascoRackspace's ransomware messaging dilemmaHeads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023A MultiCloud RantGreat visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the GoodAWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaksCreating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux FoundationSpotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage projectVMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cutSenior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by BroadcomChina Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: ReportDropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cashSweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28MTwitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda CampaignOkta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hackedWorkday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEOTop Paying ToolsWinging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the SkiesCIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools ComparisonMSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes showOpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D modelsNo, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting GoodsThe Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reportedIRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business paymentsCyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chiefGoogle Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety MountsIBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safetyEurope Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat HomesList of defunct social networking services2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No MaliceTwitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit statusTSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over ChipsMicrosoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rdThe infrastructure behind ATMsApple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devicesSnowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendorsShift Happens: A book about keyboardsAmazon to cut 18,000 jobsCircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCIVideo game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor unionWorld's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choiceomg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for youAlphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendorExcel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.comHas the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech NowResearchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User InfoMicrosoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of AudioObservability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuationWhy IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computingNew research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL isCompanies are still waiting for their cloud ROIWhat TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API CoverageTech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappearedA look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projectsThe golden age of the streaming wars has endedYouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality## Nonsense
The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your homeStarbucks updating its loyalty program starting in FebruaryThe revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.Conferences
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