This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.

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Runner-up Titles

• Costservability
• Just a second
• 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
• We’ve never made a mistake
• A million Amazon users of Copilot
• Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
• Two Turntables and a Microphone
• Default Search Engines

Rundown

• Cloud Earnings Review
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis
  • Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business
  • Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23
• OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
• Free Software Product
  • Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
  • Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide
  • Business Models
• Default Search Engine
  • Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
  • Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
  • “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
• Paid Social
  • Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix
  • Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription
  • YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs
• SolarWinds
  • SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
  • Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale
  • Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud
• Apple
  • Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips
  • Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone

Relevant to your Interests

• The Cloud Computer
• Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
• 12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker
• X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner
• Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
• Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
• Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street
• VMware closes its home for experimental software
• Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
• Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
• What's new in Red Hat OpenShift
• Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model
• Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team
• Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon'
• Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software

Nonsense

• Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs
• Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130?
• The restaurant nearest Google
• Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
• Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity
• WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ

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