Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

About this Episode

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos.

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Runner-up Titles

• We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.
• Go easy on the AI
• I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican
• I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope
• I should take more showers
• I came to measure and chew bubblegum
• Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.
• Usability golf
• No dependencies, no problems
• Peak Software
• We are a safe haven for measures
• Tools and Rules

Rundown

• Layoffs
  • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
  • How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI
• Revenue and IPO
  • Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
  • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
  • SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.
• GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
  • NHS Pulls OSS
  • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog

Relevant to your Interests

• Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
• Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
• SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
• Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
• Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway
• IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award
• Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
• Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
• What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks
• U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
• Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
• Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

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Nonsense

• GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished
• Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction
• America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State

Listener Feedback

• Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App

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