This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.

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Runner-up Titles

Costservability
Just a second
439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
We’ve never made a mistake
A million Amazon users of Copilot
Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
Two Turntables and a Microphone
Default Search Engines

Rundown

Cloud Earnings Review
OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
Free Software Product
Default Search Engine
- Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
- Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
- “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
Paid Social
SolarWinds
Apple
- Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips
- Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone

Relevant to your Interests

The Cloud Computer
Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker
X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner
Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street
VMware closes its home for experimental software
Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
What's new in Red Hat OpenShift
Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model
Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team
Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon'
Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software

Nonsense

Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs
Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130?
The restaurant nearest Google
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity
WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ

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