This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 435 Runner-up Titles All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine We’re doing this for science No, just no, Dad No exceeding expectations in that role I will do horrible things with YAML My business is my business They don’t have room for purity Rundown Emergency broadcast not used by Trump CBP announces new MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch" Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here Relevant to your Interests OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on The potential gap Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices Look what ChatGPT vision can do. Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos. Nonsense Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits Conferences Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Dental Monitoring and Anker Magsafe Battery Matt: Search Engine podcast: Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? Photo Credits Header