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.

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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
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