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
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