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February 02, 2024Episode 452: Write the letters
This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 452
Runner-up Titles
Know the rules
Until you reach infinity
When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door.
All-in on Minecraft
Eminent domain for digital transformation.
There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet.
Rundown
Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates
Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat
The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse
Direct File | Internal Revenue Service
DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform
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Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware
A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show
Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement
Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account
A brief history of Dell UNIX
OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS
Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role
Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking
#446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me
Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail
Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?
Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different
Startup Funding Simulator
Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability
Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit
Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says
Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided
Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024
Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings
But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand.
Nonsense
Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D)
I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel
More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia
Make it Taylors Version
Conferences
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular?
Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (I don’t think the version matters, really).
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1 hr 16 min
January 26, 2024Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet?
This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451
Runner-up Titles
Enshittification
The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization
Wait for Wifi
Taxes by beef rib
It’s actually not fine
Smoking crack in Disneyland
AI is accelerating the crappiness.
Why don’t you just sell more cloud?
Generated Garbage
I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile.
Accidentally upgraded
Jury duty…”pretty cool.”
Rundown
Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling.
How Google perfected the web
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
Subprime Attention Crisis
2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
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Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud
Creating a Sales Commission Plan
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval
VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift
Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition
‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures
Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray
Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it
Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
Introducing Docker Build Cloud
It's time to build
"And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it."
For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything
Campfire is ONCE #1
Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian
Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements
Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work
Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech
Culture Change at Google
Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction
Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story?
Mourning Google
Nonsense
We lost some real stars this past year
Startups Are Shutting Down!
It’s Just a Water Bottle
Listener Feedback
Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
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Recommendations
Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty
Matt: Perplexity.AI
Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger or Kartika — which is also good and less fancy in a good way.
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January 19, 2024Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness
This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450
Runner-up Titles
Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers
Sales is crazy
Donut over-eating avoidance
Fundamentals don’t change
Do you have good recipes for golden geese?
We need better Dungeons and Dragons
The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence.
Peter Pan as DevRel
Hard stop goes soft
HR in volume feels dehumanizing
Mad Libs for layoffs
Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness.
We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision…
Status quo wins again
The Strangler Pattern for password management
Schwag cannot be stolen.
Rundown
2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast)
DevRel
The trouble with DevRel
Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast)
Work, RTO and Layoffs
WebMD’s RTO Video
Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok
Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok
Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video
Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation
Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech
Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks
Passwords and Keyboards
Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024
Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership
Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain
Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey
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Authy is shutting down its desktop app
OpenTofu is going GA
Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open
Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals
Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch.
How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit
Slack Executives are all gone
WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why.
World's R&D spending
Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin
The Worst Devices of CES 2024!
App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available
Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft
Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027
Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99%
Nonsense
Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China
These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024
The Official Passport Index Ranking
why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen
These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana
Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip.
Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar).
Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse
Aliens Fireteam Elite on sale for <$10
Coté: The Lost Kingdom, book.
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January 12, 2024Episode 449: Magic of Cloud
This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 449
Runner-up Titles
That is part of the podcast
I am going to have a change of pants for that
They’re very good notes
“Buildies”
Of course they are
The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money
The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money
Gobsmacked
Rundown
Mobile Passport Control (MPC)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
Amazon's Silent Sacking
AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints
Coding at Google
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Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe
Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts
Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’
Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot
Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000
Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available
Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available
The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners
DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we…
Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban
Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement
The Rule of X
Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers
Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products?
Deploy web apps anywhere
A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings
End of Life
VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs
Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends
Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap
The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement
Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’
Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review
EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings
OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama
2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024
Remembering the startups we lost in 2023
Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again'
Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks.
Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024
Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion
LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store
This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups
Command line csv viewer
Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail
Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites
Elon Musk is not understood
Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity
2024 Predictions
US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown
Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself
'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages
Office vacancy rate hits record high
The robots will make us more human
Amazon’s Twitch plans to slash staff: report
Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better?
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc.
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc.
DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU)
Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny
IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B
Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent
Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software
Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles
Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security
HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion
The companies employees don’t want to leave in 2023
Nonsense
‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship
The 52 definitive rules of flying
Neither Overhead nor Underground, PG&E Pilot Program Evaluates the Benefits of Putting Powerlines Right on the Ground
Airline Amenities
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282
Reacting to Blackstone's holiday video
The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking.
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
The Quick Flip Go Bottle | 24 Oz
How a 40-ounce cup turned Stanley into a $750 million a year business
Cup Fever
Matt: Apple Watch 9
Coté: Patagonia 3-in-1 Parka. It is fucking expensive and iPhone 15 Pro Max
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January 05, 2024Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF
Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”.
Show Links
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Project Bluefin
Bazzite
Universal Blue
Prompt terminal
Windows To Go with Rufus
Contact Jorge Castro
LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112
GitHub: @castrojo
Mastodon: @[email protected]
SDT News & Hype
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Special Guest: Jorge Castro.
44 min
December 29, 2023Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review
This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 447
Runner-up Titles
Flat budgets are better then no budget
Applauding as the Titanic goes down
They weren’t going to be patriated
But this is you!
Now we know
The hippies have lost
Keep your head on an open-source swivel
Once it works, it’ll be great
At least we got USB C
Great year for cables
Rundown
2022 Year in Review (Last Year’s Recap Episode)
Travel App Recommendations
FlightRadar24
Flighty
Final Numbers
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software
Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’.
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
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Recommendations of the Year
Brandon: Pastebot
Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (RIP)
Coté: Google Looker
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December 22, 2023Episode 446: The Business B.S. Dictionary
This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 446
Runner-up Titles
When your early is really on time
Showing up on time is is early for me
We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok
Rundown
BS Dictionary
What does "bureaucracy" mean?
Politics
Deck
Let's socialize this deck
Let's have the meeting in the meeting
Parking Lot
Outcomes
Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes
Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th
SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Brandon: Slow Horses Season 3
Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms.
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December 15, 2023Episode 445: It’s my sacred time
This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 445
Runner-up Titles
I feel very safe on an airplane
We’re one mishap away from Lost
Difference between the right decision and the safe decision
First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo
“Rice”
They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck
Figure out where all the yaml goes
Rundown
Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle
Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix
Apache Mesos
Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
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Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft
Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric
The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023
Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework
Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions?
Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units
Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini
Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023
WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake"
Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud
VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model
Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos
The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview
HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth
Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates
Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less
Nonsense
Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade?
It’s time for the Excel World Championships!
Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video
Committing to Costco
220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap
Conferences
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024
DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 April 17-18, 2024
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Brandon: The Fund
Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped
Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit
Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff)
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December 08, 2023Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete
This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 444
Runner-up Titles
A.I. Arms Race
Table 4 needs pork chops
Run with that
Thanks for not saving us from the AI
The King of Cameos
Rebels going to rebel
Ivory Tower Scruples
The sign of something
Rundown
OpenAI
Sam Altman Out At OpenAI
A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too
Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork
Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch
Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman
Who Controls OpenAI?
Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson
The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI
Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns
Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
A.I. Arms Race
Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Google unveils Gemini
Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft
Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
Relevant to Your Interests
Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself'
Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector
New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)
Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
"We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more
534 startups have failed so far in 2023
Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts
'Return to Office' declared dead
Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services
US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day
Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce
Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog
GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit
It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance
Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
Nonsense
Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us.
The Clock of the Long Now
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December 01, 2023Episode 443: Everything is maintenance
This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 443
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Nobody wants to do a bake-off
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Rundown
AWS re:Invent
Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace
AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)
Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership
AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS
DGX Platform
Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS
Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock
Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning
Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock
Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training
Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers
Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation
Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant
New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available
Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
AWS takes the cheap shots
Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent
Relevant to your Interests
Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022
Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach
Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023
Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock
FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data
AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media | TechCrunch
Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024
Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai
Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering
Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023
DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers
Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023
Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan
Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval
VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law
Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity
IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS
Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated
New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy
VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake
Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028
IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership
Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn
Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK)
Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS.
Nonsense
Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors
Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023
Listener Feedback
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Conferences
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