His proper name is Sasquatch
Episode 530 · July 25th, 2025 · 47 mins 37 secs
About this Episode
This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.
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Runner-up Titles
- VP of getting it on
- Neutral trombone
- Good Margin
- Independent from what?
- The New Benevolence
- I have plenty of cynicism for other things
Rundown
- Emojis
- Australian Bigfoot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Matt’s Rankings:
- Hairy Creature
- Trombone
- Treasure Chest
- Fight Cloud
- Orca
- Landslide
- Apple Core
- Ballet Dancers
- Distorted Face
- AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'
- Cloudflare
- Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
- Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in.
- Bitnami Secure Images
Relevant to your Interests
- Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users
- Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me
- Dell employees are not OK
- How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine
- Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution
- Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity
- new Date("wtf")
- Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately
- The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
- Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
- Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
- Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights
- Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
- The Enshittification of American Power
- Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770
- Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing
- OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
- ChatGPT Numbers
- Move Mesos to the Attic
- Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.
- Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion
Nonsense
- Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday
Conferences
- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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