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Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow. Show Links Serverless Days Sydney dapr.io Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager Contact Paul LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz Twitter: @paulyuki99 SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo Credits HeaderSpecial Guest: Paul Yuknewicz.

Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks. Show Links visualstudio.com Contact Amanda LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver Twitter: @amandaksilver SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Amanda K. Silver.

This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468 Runner-up Titles Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept. Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it Thanks Clayton Williams Multi-size Monkey Phase There’s people I know “Yes, and” is now fully ironic Pop sockets are the future All out of tokens, going home You said Squawkbox Cote’ Rundown New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes App Engine overlay Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite Greenplum Microsoft Build Introducing Copilot+ PCs Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 Relevant to your Interests Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use More thoughts on OSS business models After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why? Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation Tech Influencing Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? Apple execs on iMessage for Android ‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24 Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 The pandemic darlings: where are they now? Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024 ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT OpenAI loses its voice Nonsense Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star Listener Feedback Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy 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 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Water Meter Valve Key Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose” Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467 Runner-up Titles Do what works Blame the children I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993 I like carrots Rundown A.I. Announcements Introducing GPT-4o ‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements Google I/O 2024 Palace Intrigue Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later. Relevant to your Interests Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics? Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp? How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake? Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Nonsense YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125! Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there 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. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Dark Matter Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 466 Runner-up Titles Coté is in a Dungeon Everything’s going to be different What would Stringer Bell say? Displacing Google Great Grammarly A room full of barking dogs A little bit of hustle porn. Over value activity A whole room with barking dogs Rundown Clouded Judgement 5.3.24 OpenAI To Launch Search Engine Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM Relevant to your Interests Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine. Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It Supercharged Developer Portals VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch Open sourcing Octo STS Apple is an edge computing company. EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED UniSuper and GCP AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age Why companies list fake jobs Nonsense Justice for cord boxes!!! Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony. MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there 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. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Fallout Matt: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV Coté: My book is on sale at Leanpub. Get XP for donating miles with KLM/Flying Blue. Trade show interview Photo Credits Header Artwork

This podcast episode discusses IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, slow adoption of Continuous Integration, and thoughts on non-compete agreements. Topics also include new technologies like AlmaLinux 9.4 beta and Lacework's potential sale, as well as Netflix's handling of freeloading and Tesla's Cybertruck recall.

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards. Show Links Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is. Appoint and empower a single threaded leader Two way door decisions Dogs not barking. Weasel words. If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank. Contact Jana Werner LinkedIn: Jana Werner. SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon,  BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.  Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! The Cards Here's the text of the all the cards: Mechanism How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days? How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice? How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings? How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism? How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising? How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used? How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product? How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with? How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues? How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release? How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps? How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision? How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it? How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter? How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings? Culture How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs? How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions? How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting? How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle? How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen? How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable? How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture? How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published? How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision? How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster? How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports? How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team? How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations? How can you start your next meeting with a document read? Organisation How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it? How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team? How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams? How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)? How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team? [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read? How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations? How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation? How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement? Leadership How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these? How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers? How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn. How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually? How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years? How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last? How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these? How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar? How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions? How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives? SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Jana Werner.

This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 463 Runner-up Titles The fun run was fun. You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts. The Phish are biting Everything’s cool zone Words that rhyme with “acquisation” Maybe AI can find it The market for products that start with “K” I like hotdogs Don’t do the values, just the fun facts Rundown An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu Matt Asay response Tweet Adam Jacob take Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai Relevant to your Interests Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source Enterprise Nonsense How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis Listener Feedback Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide Civil War Matt: Ostrich travel pillow H-E-B Pro-Sleep Mask Coté: Continuity Camera, kibbeling. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 462 Runner-up Titles Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs. Well, I still have meetings. The Cote’ Experience ClosedTofu Our Cloud is Huge(tm) Rundown Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated Matt Asay Follow up Tweet Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. Google Cloud Next ’24 Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote Relevant to your Interests WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software Nonsense Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates Listener Feedback The first person to send their United States postal address to sdt@newinstancecoffee.com will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee. Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Node.js: The Documentary How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461 Runner-up Titles The Fork is a feature not a bug Relicensing: The path to Private Equity Is this Progress? Hot Antitrust Action Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars Won’t someone think of the children? Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances The deepest of pockets Fine-adjacent. Not complicated enough What’s it called when they plateau going down? Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of Mostly contrast Rundown Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means Redis RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one Battle of the Redis forks? Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community Is this Progress? Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS). Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB. Database popularity index Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence 20 years of Gmail Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!). Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown). Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies. Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?) Relevant to your Interests Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry Apache Kvrocks Ex-technology companies FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch Key takeaways from the Entrust incident Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo Nonsense Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? Conferences Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 - but check the replay in LinkedIn or YouTube. Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: 3 Body Problem Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney. Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI Photo Credits Header Artwork