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.

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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

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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. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.”

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