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

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

SDT news & hype

Recommendations

Brandon:
- MoviePass, MovieCrash
- From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592)
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.”

Photo Credits

Episode 471: The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog

Software Defined Talk