This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix.
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Runner-up Titles
- Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall
- I need two offers
- You Kids
- We are the rock eaters to Slack
- I mean, what else am I doing with my life?
Rundown
- Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI
- Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
- iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview
- Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
- Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
- Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
- macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows
Relevant to your Interests
- Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding
- Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine
- It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
- Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
- Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
- The Worst Website In The Entire World
- How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
- Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories
- Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG)
- Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team
- What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
- Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
- Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
- Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack
- Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006
- Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
- Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor
- Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway
- OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple.
- Openwashing
- IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season
- How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries
- OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
- A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
- RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard
- 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch
- Adam Selipsky, the exit interview
- Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
- 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman
- Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated?
- Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant
- Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
- OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
- Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow
- AI Patterns
- Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding
- Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS
- GitLab quarter
- eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images
- Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart
- The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
- The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning
- GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares
- VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”
- Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
- Silicon Valley's False Prophet
- Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last
Nonsense
- Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads
- Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch
- The five stages of computer science
- Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok
- The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
- Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing
- Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say
- The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends
Conferences
- NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
- DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
- DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
- SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
- SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Recommendations
- Brandon:
- Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS
- Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.”
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