This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?
Rundown
Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT (https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/03/28/could-box-and-dropbox-merge/)
Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord (https://twitter.com/pivotpod/status/1375824932785909760?s=21)
Amazon Twitter War (https://twitter.com/delrey/status/1376278015680843779?s=21)
Work / Life
Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager? (https://techworker.com/2021/03/29/tech-support-how-can-i-cope-with-my-meaningless-job-and-maddening-manager/)
Solomon Hykes is back (https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1376725608747593731)
McKinsey’s advice to European banks (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1377487540102569984): don’t bring an entourage to meetings.
Relevant to your interests
IBM doubles down on OpenShift (https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/ibm-red-hat-openshift?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1)
VMware Cloud announcement (https://twitter.com/VMware/status/1377277520102428679)
The New York Times x NFT | Foundation (https://foundation.app/kevinroose/the-new-york-times-x-nft-13129)
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2LN3E)
Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have (https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-have/)
Fintech comes to America at last (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/fintech-comes-to-america-at-last)
Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/)
PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phps-git-server-hacked-to-add-backdoors-to-php-source-code/)
T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app (https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-google-messages-212527575.html)
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images (https://unsplash.com/blog/unsplash-getty/)
Introducing the Echo subsea cable (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/introducing-the-echo-subsea-cable/)
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/linkedin-confirms-its-working-on-a-clubhouse-rival-too/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5vcmVhZGVyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJNB71cjWYjYTRsUHIQfk7c1dJLL2Af1wKSJBWK5a5-oUxWNhPIQhCbfmqU_X2Sd3O7EVZ3WH2Yi3mc7eYWOqiPRHgAaoSPagsMJO9F3bWeJ-R-D7GgqJvetSKUwaLEC385YjSNeGFM9fjCmCahqjz-xW7juccwvSvMpRZ17lcmf)
SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/ssrf-vulnerability-in-npm-package-netmask-impacts-up-to-279k-projects)
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/)
Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shareholder-alert-ubiquiti-inc-investigated-184800904.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9rcmVic29uc2VjdXJpdHkuY29tLzIwMjEvMDMvd2hpc3RsZWJsb3dlci11YmlxdWl0aS1icmVhY2gtY2F0YXN0cm9waGljLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANxzrnuYLGOPmunKjgVOWxc_KbH4rGobv0StOq5Ze80l5-XyX9O12gngluP6MBoSxz0XxAOvkoszFURecya8TaMSVyk6XkgfegqaLR3LnlQvGBTus1iBuuh8FelG1--Pc1u9IGHFs2mlu61HKGw3FRNwhs6qAK9dFslKLAjygggd)
ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade (https://www.engadget.com/arm-armv9-architecture-180043435.html)
Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/30/facebook_new_submarine_cables/)
Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html)
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22356682/discord-stage-channels-clubhouse-like-feature-voice?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)
Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/03/31/common-room-launches-community-software-with-52-million-funding/)
Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-metric-streams-send-aws-metrics-to-partners-and-to-your-apps-in-real-time/)
GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2021-cloud-report/)
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/slack-wants-to-be-more-than-a-text-based-messaging-platform/)
Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom (https://www.axios.com/substack-andreessen-horowitz-newsletter-36cb98ea-a7b3-43b1-883a-fa45586eaad4.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Nonsense
'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/worst-mice-plague-ever-seen-millions-rodents-descend-eastern-australia-rcna513)
Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team (https://youtu.be/XfB0g_JDIds)
Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day (https://newsroom.chipotle.com/2021-03-30-Burritos-Or-Bitcoin-Chipotle-To-Give-Away-200k-In-Free-Burritos-And-Bitcoin-To-Celebrate-National-Burrito-Day)
Steer through the Suez Canal (https://technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=47c1a9cec9749a8f8cbc83e78&id=4fd9ae043e&e=84061c219a)
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