This week on the show, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the raft of investigations into big tech and how likely they are to lead to meaningful regulation. Then they discuss Amazon expanding its blockchain offerings, a Exim server exploit, and Google open sourcing differential privacy. 

Editors note: Apologies for Rich's audio quality, the wrong mic input was used. 

This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what Commvault gets by buying Hedvig, why ads in your terminal aren't happening anytime soon, and who's at fault with Supermicro's BMC security exploit. 

Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth discuss the IT news of the week, including big VMware acquisitions, AI chips from Intel, and OpenPower going open source (sorta).

This week we talked about the WeWork IPO, why misconfigured EBS snapshots are the new misconfigured S3 buckets, and why AMD's new server chips weren't built in a day. 

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss configuration issues leading to privacy breaches with Jira, why the FCC set rules for new broadband coverage maps, Microsoft's Azure Security Lab, and if Facebook's Workplace redesign can spur adoption. 

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the IT news of the week, including what we know about the big Capital One data leak, if Dish can become a viable 4th carrier, if Very Low Power Wi-Fi will be useful, and more!

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss if browser extensions are an under evaluated threat surface, if you can store a SQL database in DNA, what Microsoft's investment in OpenAI means, and so much more this week.  

Stephen Foskett and Rich Stroffolino discuss why the German state of Hesse says Office365 is illegal for schools, the FTC dropping a $5 billion fine on Facebook, Oracle's complaint over the JEDI contract being dismissed, and more. 

Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino are talking about the IT news of the week, including Zoom's nasty security vulnerability, Cisco buying Acacia,  the UK vs Mozilla, and why 7-11 isn't known for making apps.

Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino discuss the recent Cloudflare outage, how big the overall SaaS market is, if Huawei and the US are patching things up, and why Broadcom wants to buy Symantec.