This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix.

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Runner-up Titles

• Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall
• I need two offers
• You Kids
• We are the rock eaters to Slack
• I mean, what else am I doing with my life?

Rundown

• Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI
• Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
• iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview
• Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
• Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
• Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
• macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows

Relevant to your Interests

• Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding
• Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine
• It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
• Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
• Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
• The Worst Website In The Entire World
• How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
• Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories
• Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG)
• Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team
• What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
• Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
• Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
• Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack
• Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006
• Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
• Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor
• Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway
• OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple.
• Openwashing
• IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season
• How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries
• OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
• A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
• RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard
• 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch
• Adam Selipsky, the exit interview
• Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
• 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman
• Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated?
• Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant
• Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
• OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
• Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow
• AI Patterns
• Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding
• Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS
• GitLab quarter
• eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images
• Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart
• The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
• The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning
• GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares
• VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”
• Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
• Silicon Valley's False Prophet
• Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last

Nonsense

• Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads
• Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch
• The five stages of computer science
• Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok
• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
• Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing
• Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say
• The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends

Conferences

• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • MoviePass, MovieCrash
  • From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592)
• Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS
• Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.”

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