Episode 471: The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog

This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471 Runner-up Titles Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall I need two offers You Kids We are the rock eaters to Slack I mean, what else am I doing with my life? Rundown Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows Relevant to your Interests Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Linux as the new developer default at 37signals Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident The Worst Website In The Entire World How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG) Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006 Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple. Openwashing IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch Adam Selipsky, the exit interview Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated? Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow AI Patterns Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS GitLab quarter eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Silicon Valley's False Prophet Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last Nonsense Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch The five stages of computer science Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: MoviePass, MovieCrash From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. 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