Events, Technology, and Personal Journeys

This week, we talk about Anthropic's new AI agent, cloud exits, and why BMC is splitting up. Plus, a quick update on the WordPress drama and some thoughts on Amsterdam’s autumn weather.

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Runner-up Titles

• The Abyss Looks Into You
• ROI Stuff
• RTO Agent

Rundown

• AI Agents
  • The AI agents have arrived
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
• Wordpress
  • Open source royalty and mad kings
  • Casey Newton on Mullenweg
  • Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
• Cloud Exits
  • Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
  • Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years
  • There's a lot of private cloud out there
• BMC
  • BMC Announces the Creation of Two Independent Companies
  • Doubling down on AI and splitting at BMC Connect 2024

Relevant to your Interests

• #1046 OpenCost Incubation Proposal
• US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case
• ChatGPT Crossed a Revenue Milestone and (Re)Started a Gold Rush
• Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
• From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers
• AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
• CEO Kurian: 'When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn't Have a Chance'
• AMD looks to new chips to grab share from Intel, Nvidia
• The list of major companies requiring employees to return to the office
• Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse
• Overview of current needs and possibilities in enterprise-y FinOps
• Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
• Eric Schmidt on electronic warfare
• 700 Ubisoft workers go on three-day strike to protest company’s new return-to-office policy
• Amazon's cloud boss on Thursday told employees who are unhappy with the company's new five-day in-office mandate they can leave for other companies.
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
• Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its "Autonomous" Robots Look More Capable
• How Google is changing to compete with ChatGPT
• Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation
• Sophos to Acquire Secureworks to Accelerate Cybersecurity Services and Technology for Organizations Worldwide
• Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts
• Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
• Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm
• Citi reaps rewards from modernization investments
• Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
• How Wiz Became the Fastest Software Company to Hit $500M & Its Path to $1B
• In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption
• Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leaves Role
• Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
• Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
• Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
• The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
• Twitter users flock to Bluesky as 500,000 join in a day amid controversial blocking changes
• Nvidia's Blackwell AI Processors Are Sold Out For Next 12 Months
• Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey - AWS

Nonsense

• What the Waffle House Index says about Hurricane Milton
• Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) on X
• The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi Bikes
• The VW ID. Buzz was worth the seven-year wait

Listener Feedback

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• Our big things vs their big things

Conferences

• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
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• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
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