This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs.

Runner-up Titles

• Chrome fixes everything
• Plateau of Productivity
• When the curve nopes.
• When the parabola yeets.
• First class SaaS
• Thanks for the legwork fool
• The cash cow has run out of milk
• Sign-a-tar
• Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant
• Working has its privileges
• Let go of this dog now

Rundown

• Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS
• Cloudflare
  • Cloudflare Post Mortem
  • Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error
  • The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps
• Oracle
  • Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner
  • Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers
• DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down
• Removing people from security
  • Password policies of 120 websites
  • iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion
• Senate considers ban on data brokers selling health and location info
• Full List of Data Broker Opt-Out Guides: How to opt-out of the internet
• Anna Sorokin plans to launch an NFT collection
• Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup
• Median software multiple is now 5.7x.
• The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud
• The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution
• I Should Be Able to Mute America
• Capital One fraudster got in via 'misconfigured' AWS storage
• Better.com loses three more senior executives, including SVP and VP of sales
• Veza Raises $110M in Funding - FinSMEs
• The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security

Nonsense

• The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021
• Jira gets fired by ClickUp - Exit Interview commercial advertisement
• Amazon demos Alexa reading a bedtime story in the voice of a boy's deceased grandma
• Could You Really Not Just Put This In An Email?

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