This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 486 Runner-up Titles I’m out of nuts, time to podcast System Settings Security, it never ends Fancy Sysadmins Providing needles for your balloons Batman’s not real What’s the opposite of a taboo DevOps is not the tooling Software gets old Release the turbo button Rundown ‎Windows App PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays Has DevOps been "worth it" to you? Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays. Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs Digital Transformation Gone Wrong How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess Apple Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia Intel Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl Wordpress Drama Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking WP Engine responds Relevant to your Interests IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’ Yaak Is Now Open Source OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea. Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout, Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report Nonsense Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you. Conferences Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW. VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking. SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad Matt: Ghosts Coté: The Modern Myths. Photo Credits Header Artwork