This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/6vmdE20_Eak?si=qcONahAxeLtl2Fc5) 435 (https://www.youtube.com/live/6vmdE20_Eak?si=qcONahAxeLtl2Fc5)
Runner-up Titles
All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine
We’re doing this for science
No, just no, Dad
No exceeding expectations in that role
I will do horrible things with YAML
My business is my business
They don’t have room for purity
Rundown
Emergency broadcast (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3) not (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3) used by Trump (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3)
CBP announces new (https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-new-global-entry-mobile-app)
MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices (https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/mgm-caesars-incident-responses-required-brutal-choices)
Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch" (https://github.com/jetporch/jetporch)
Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/cloud-startup-pulumi-raises-41m-from-madrona-nea-to-grow-infrastructure-as-code-platform/)
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/red_hat_bugzilla_jira_migration/)
Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/10/work-from-home-works.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=work-from-home-works)
The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23889238/raspberry-pi-5-specs-availability-pricing)
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-seeks-new-valuation-of-up-to-90-billion-in-sale-of-existing-shares-ed6229e0)
Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/27/epic-games-supreme-court/)
FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/)
Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT (https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-ai-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-unveil-chatbot-rayban-metaverse)
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894266/epic-games-layoffs-fortnite-unreal-engine)
How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton (https://bytes.swiggy.com/how-swiggy-migrated-its-k8s-workload-to-graviton-d2643bbc7871)
Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23895518/passkey-passwordless-login-announcements-news-updates)
The potential gap (https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/the-potential-gap?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming (https://www.yahoo.com/news/apple-acknowledges-hot-iphone-15-215031767.html)
What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/vmware_broadcom_pundit_predictions/)
Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/01/bill-ackman-would-absolutely-do-a-deal-with-x-with-his-new-sparc.html)
Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/open-source-datadog-rival-signoz-lands-on-the-cloud-with-6-5m-investment/)
Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/okta-acquires-a16z-backed-password-manager-uno-to-develop-a-personal-tier/)
Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices (https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706?st=9ubhqeyjqgu0b2x&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink)
Look what ChatGPT vision can do. (https://twitter.com/_borriss_/status/1707412406048063788)
Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware (https://overcast.fm/+8XV3Zc4Pg)
AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality (https://stratechery.com/2023/ai-hardware-and-virtual-reality/)
The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos. (https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-8-2023/senate-reply-all-mess/)
Nonsense
Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/costco-is-selling-gold-bars-and-they-are-selling-out-within-a-few-hours.html)
Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-25/costco-offers-health-care-to-members-in-deal-with-sesame-cost?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic)
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Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering (https://series.brighttalk.com/series/6011/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
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