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This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop? Rundown Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord Amazon Twitter War Work / Life Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager? Solomon Hykes is back McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings. Relevant to your interests IBM doubles down on OpenShift VMware Cloud announcement The New York Times x NFT | Foundation Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have Fintech comes to America at last Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images Introducing the Echo subsea cable LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom Nonsense 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day Steer through the Suez Canal Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Dominic recommends NewsBlur to read newsletters Owen recommends Ioreader for newsletters Brian Gracely wants you to work on OpenShift at Red Hat. They are hiring over 10 Product Managers. Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip. Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner. Coté: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we discuss Discord rumors, Slack Connect, the new AWS CEO and what would make Tableau and Salesforce better. Plus, why did Google Reader really get canceled…? Rundown Messaging Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion Box shares rise on report company is exploring sale Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare The next Jassy Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS Nine things you need to know about the new AWS CEO Why Google Killed Reader Relevant to your interests COVID Accelerated the Future: Now Seize It Google buy real estate Google lays out real estate plans for Texas in 2021 Google announces expansion of Bakery Square campus Google picks Durham for engineering hub, aims to create 1,000 jobs Google to Invest $7 Billion in Bet on Post-Pandemic Office Worklife Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off Citigroup CEO ordains Zoom-free Fridays to ease 'relentless' pandemic workday Rackspace Technology gains on takeover speculation Kelsey Hightower on S3 Object Lambda Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10 HAMR and MAMR will bring us giant hard drives | Engadget Apple’s HomePod mini reportedly has a secret temperature and humidity sensor Twilio and ValueFirst Come Together to Improve Customer Engagement Apple Developing New 'HomePod' Models With Screens and Cameras Google is gunning for faster hardware, whether or not you see it Powell calls cryptocurrencies 'not really useful stores of value' and says Fed will move slowly Managed open-source software startup Aiven raises $100M in Series C funding Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus – TechCrunch Robinhood Is Said to Have Filed Confidentially for U.S. IPO Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp How Google really feels about Amazon Redshift… A Brief History of Semiconductors: How The US Cut Costs and Lost the Leading Edge Kubecost raises $5.5 million to help teams monitor and reduce their Kubernetes spend Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud - Cisco Blogs Intel Intel invests $20 billion in two Arizona factories, 7nm chips coming in 2023 | Engadget Pat Gelsinger Hype Video SiFive collaborates with new Intel Foundry Services to enable innovative new RISC-V computing platforms DigitalOcean IPO Nonsense Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated Silverwood Grove Is A Board Game Bringing Aussie Culture To Tabletop Gaming Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off Each State's Favorite Easter Treat (Spoiler: Apparently some people DO like Peeps) - Zippia So, the #SuezCanal is blocked… Report: Houses in Austin selling for more over asking price than any major U.S. city You Can’t Trade Football Futures A Message From the Skype CEO Winter storm causes Austin home sales to dip in February for first time since Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET March 31st VMware Tanzu event. Cloud Native Rust Day SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Coté: cote.io/downloads Brandon: Pixelmator Pro and SnagIT Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house. Rundown VC Stripe is now valued at $95 billion Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing Work Life This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard Relevant to your interests Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon Google’s plan to disrupt higher education Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage Boosting developer success on Google Play IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services Nonsense Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET Cloud Native Rust Day SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt*:* 1917 & Thin Red Line Coté: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?) Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills. Rundown Post-pandemic Predications? Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain VC Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up How to pronounce Snyk Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up Excel Never Dies Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete Pickle Rick (Pure CSS) Relevant to your interests Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok? Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe Blame the Intern Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021 Presentations — Benedict Evans Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition - Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS Identity and Access Management Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019 Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA Brandon interviews Squire Earle Nonsense That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: William Gibson’s Agency Brandon: WandaVision Coté: Werther’s Originals Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Redmonk’s Language Rankings, Okta buys Auth0 and Zoom Fatigue. Plus, Matt gets a puppy and explains why he needs a longer sabbatical. Rundown Blameless Post Mortem Redux John Allspaw says we got it wrong How to run a blameless postmortem Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet Zoom fatigue causes: 1 easy solution according to a Stanford professor Relevant to your interests Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you Twitter pulls a Patreon Enriching Excel with higher-order functional programming SolarWinds SolarWinds To Pay Ex-CEO $312K To Assist With Investigations Rep. Katie Porter ask SolarWinds CEO about password LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe AWS reorganizes DeepRacer League to encourage more newbies – TechCrunch Flash is back? Sort of in Rust Update Your Browser ASAP! Announcing Our Series C: What's Next for Hopin Microsoft’s Azure Arc multi-cloud platform now supports machine learning workloads Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why? Jack Dorsey's Square buys Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming service Nonsense Sheep Shearing CEO of Texas power grid operator "terminated" in aftermath of winter storm Building an External 9.7” Monitor from an iPad Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt History vs. Hollywood The Eggnoggin Toboggan feat. Briggs Brandon: Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ with Chris Evans Coté: Nat that's what i reckon Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad? Rundown LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know. Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding HEY World experiment Relevant to your interests Clouds The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Watson IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time IPOs and M&A Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Security SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby Investing The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High Chips Chip Shortage Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015 Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success? Nonsense Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Cloudbees is looking for a Remote DevOps Consultant-Continuous Delivery anywhere in North America. Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Read this book we are going to discuss it: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Brandon: I Care a Lot Coté: LoseIt! The Golem and the Jinni. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse. Rundown Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115) Operating Systems CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore Relevant to your interests ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook Security Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier. Passwords LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords Hardware highlights…? Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020. Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm Audio is the future? Clubhouse’s Inevitability The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi Nonsense 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based) Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: HDMI LCD controllers. Brandon: Fake Famous. Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation. Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week, we discuss Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté. Mood board: I have three screens. I have enough screen space. I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit. This direct shit. Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan. I think about this every day “Work is punishment.” We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things. It’s ready to be PowerPointed. Members Only Security Discussion. Hackin’ the mainframe. They love themselves the McGlauglin group. Back on the Funnel. “Work is Punishment.” Label maker go brrrr. Rundown Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent parties Authenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA) There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the software Enabling transparency for software artifacts Create ways to trust the build process Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack Steve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsoft a16z pushing product - “DIRECT” The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the future CartaX - Andreessen Horowitz Security SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack Apple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation Bug Monitoring and Observability Announcing Change Intelligence Anchor it around what’s changed. Go Serverless! Bitcoin HODL Chart Migrate Everything to OpenBSD…? Relevant to your interests SoftBank SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee early M&A, VC and Partners Palantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largest Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity Box acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflows It’s AWS not A.W.S. How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos Amazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlands diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car Facebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it Tickets to Space They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop. Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? Greater fool theory Nonsense Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the loose MIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emails Mass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On Video Naming Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse Suspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback the THREAD is now over 3k replies. Who knows where this ends? Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Manly Surf School Dymo Label Maker Coté: The Paris Review. Sarah Manguso. Banner image from wikipedia/JunkyardsparkleSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…? Rundown Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings Email from Jeff Bezos to employees Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition GCP Earnings Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year VC Money Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation EOL’d Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook Apple and Facebook Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort Relevant to your interests Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize A Brief History of Web Design Tools WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google Why You Should Also Switch to Linux Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure Nonsense Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice AWS CEO fake Job Post 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Marc wants you to work at abstraction.games as an Automation Engineer Remote/Netherlands Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Search Party Sun Run 10k SAFE Animal Rehoming Brandon: In & Of Itself Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move? Rundown Matt Ray finds a snake…? The Battle of GameStop VC Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup Bitcoin Follow up Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “ Central bank digital currency Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast Earnings IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020 Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates Relevant to your interests https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?) Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services Vagrant First Commit Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time Tucows closes its once-popular software download site Advice on Lambda End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business Google employees have formed another union, this one international Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet Nonsense Costco Prices California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer). Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K. Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K. Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Earth at Night in Colour Transferwise Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam Coté: Money. micro.blog Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.