This week we discuss Musk vs. Twitter, Apple Wallet Employee Badges and using Slack for incident management with Incident.io. Plus, some thoughts on European Highways…
Runner-up Titles
Tasty Jambalaya
Cars Rules
Exit Ramps
The Autobahn
The Driving Episode
Muscle Memory
Norman Doors
Screenshotting
Screensharts
Count the pixels
Digital Nirvana
Free Ketchup
An ROI cul-de-sac
Rundown
Musk vs. Twitter
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-notifies-twitter-he-is-terminating-deal.html)
How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-damaged.html)
Digital Transformation mean outages in IRL
A DoorDash glitch temporarily allowed hundreds of users to order free food (https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1545596276271566848?s=21&t=8IJ2hDk6a0d1t226lEORrw)
American Airlines pilots get triple pay for trips dropped in scheduling glitch (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/-american-airlines-pilots-get-triple-pay-for-trips-dropped-in-scheduling-glitch.html)
167 Green Launches Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For All Tenants (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/167-green-launches-employee-badge-in-apple-wallet-for-all-tenants-301584857.html)
Incident.io raises $28.7M for Slack-based incident response (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/incident-io-looks-to-beef-up-its-slack-based-incident-response-platform-with-28-7m-in-fresh-cash/)
Relevant to your Interests
Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyr (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/06/storage-firm-drobo-has-filed-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy)
Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore (https://www.theverge.com/23196764/netflix-culture-ted-sarandos-employee-feedback-dave-chappelle-controversy)
PlayStation Store removes purchased movies from libraries after service shutdown (https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23199861/playstation-store-film-tv-show-removed-austria-germany-studiocanal)
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/aws_m1_macs_ec2_ga/)
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft)
South by Southwest in Australia: Austin event plans a Down Under version in 2023 (https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2022/06/30/south-by-southwest-plans-australian-event-sxsw-sydney-lineup-2023/7772398001/)
Nothing (event): Return to Instinct. (https://us.nothing.tech/pages/event)
Oracle Considered $1B In Cuts, ‘Thousands’ Of Layoffs: Report | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/oracle-considered-1b-in-cuts-thousands-of-layoffs-report)
YouTube Rolling Out Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS for All U.S. Users, (https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/1546603375927603201)
Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/eligible-customers-can-now-order-a-free-mfa-security-key/)
SingleStore raises additional cash to grow database business (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/singlestore-raises-additional-40m-to-grow-its-database-business/)
BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats (https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1546871470256783361?s=20&t=q5LdjUzALd8r_TpqQs9nZw)
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/)
Honda key fob flaw lets hackers remotely unlock, start cars (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/honda-key-fob-flaw-hackers/)
Spotify to acquire music trivia game Heardle (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/spotify-acquire-heardle-music-trivia-game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
AWS squashes authentication bugs in Kubernetes service (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/12/authentication_bug_aws_kubernetes/)
Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/business/media/evan-williams-leaving-medium.html)
Nonsense
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll)
Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM)
I compared food courts at Sam's Club and Costco, and this is why Costco comes out on top (https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-vs-sams-food-court-comparison-photos-hot-dogs-pizza-soda-2022-7)
Every Windows boot screen ever! (https://twitter.com/ntdev_/status/1546261307640397832?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
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