This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.
Rundown
Red Hat
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
AWS
Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Relevant to your interests
Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
How Basecamp blew up
Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
The ransomware surge ruining lives
Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned.
AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
In huge demand right now: Warehouses
Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
"Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant)
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Nonsense
'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
Meet Einstein
Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO
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