This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…
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Runner-up Titles
- Work trying to get on my personal calendar
- Traveling with an infant
- =BLACKSWAN(A1:G453)
- Socks in a Costco
- Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it.
- Pay transparency for you, not me
- We don’t pay for things on the Internet
- Semper Nimbus Privatus
Rundown
Relevant to your Interests
- 2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin
- Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos
- On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup
- Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person
- 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco
- Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma
- Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
- A MultiCloud Rant
- Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.
- AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
- AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks
- Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation
- Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project
- VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut
- Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom
- China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report
- Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash
- Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M
- Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
- Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
- Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO
- Top Paying Tools
- Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies
- CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison
- MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
- OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models
- No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
- The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
- IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments
- Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief
- Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
- IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety
- Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes
- List of defunct social networking services
- 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice
- Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
- TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips
- Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd
- The infrastructure behind ATMs
- Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices
- Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors
- Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
- Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs
- CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
- Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union
- World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice
- omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you
- Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.
- Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor
- Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com
- Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
- Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now
- Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info
- Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
- Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation
- Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing
- New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
- Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI
- What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage
- Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.
- How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
- A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
- The golden age of the streaming wars has ended
- YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality
## Nonsense
- The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home
- Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February
- The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.
Conferences
- THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
- SpringOne, Jan 24–26.
- Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
- State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
- CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
- Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
- DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
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