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 Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord Amazon Twitter War Work / Life Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager? Solomon Hykes is back McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings. Relevant to your interests IBM doubles down on OpenShift VMware Cloud announcement The New York Times x NFT | Foundation Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have Fintech comes to America at last Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call PHP's 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 Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images Introducing the Echo subsea cable LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom Nonsense 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day Steer through the Suez Canal Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Dominic recommends NewsBlur to read newsletters Owen recommends Ioreader for newsletters Brian Gracely wants you to work on OpenShift at Red Hat. They are hiring over 10 Product Managers. Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip. Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner. Coté: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.