Stay in the sandbox

About this Episode

This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 493

Runner-up Titles

• Yes, No, Maybe
• Infinite Password Loop
• Bring your kids to work day: passwords.
• Password Talk
• Escaping characters
• Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Don’t hire people with pets
• Eats AWS stuff natively.
• I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox
• Enron for cloud purchasing

Rundown

• OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation
• Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance
• VMware
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
• M&A
  • Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps
  • Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
  • Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
• VMware
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
  • Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.
• RTO
  • Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals
  • Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half
  • Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'
  • Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week
  • Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!
  • Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”

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• Russian court fines Google $2 decillion
• GitHub Next | GitHub Spark
• The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM
• Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver
• Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
• Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
• Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types
• Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good
• Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries
• Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
• Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It
• Curbside charging is coming to Michigan.
• Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games
• Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference?
• Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)
• Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses
• Guide to Selling Your Company
• The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter
• IronCalc
• Neptyne is shutting down
• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
• Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama
• Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance
• Automattic's new site tracks how many websites left WP Engine following feud
• Cloudflare Blocks Automattic's WP Engine Tracker For Phishing
• We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog

Nonsense

• 'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

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