This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.
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Runner-up Titles
- Yes, No, Maybe
- Infinite Password Loop
- Bring your kids to work day: passwords.
- Password Talk
- Escaping characters
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Don’t hire people with pets
- Eats AWS stuff natively.
- I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox
- Enron for cloud purchasing
Rundown
- OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation
- Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance
- VMware
- M&A
- Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps
- Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
- IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
- Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely
- IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
- VMware
- RTO
- Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals
- Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half
- Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'
- Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week
- Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!
- Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”
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- Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver
- Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
- Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
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- Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good
- Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries
- Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
- Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It
- Curbside charging is coming to Michigan.
- Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games
- Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference?
- Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)
- Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses
- Guide to Selling Your Company
- The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter
- IronCalc
- Neptyne is shutting down
- OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
- Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama
- Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance
- Automattic's new site tracks how many websites left WP Engine following feud
- Cloudflare Blocks Automattic's WP Engine Tracker For Phishing
- We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog
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