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Cloud Giants Shun Wind Power? | LaMDA not Sentient? | MS IE RIP?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Berkshire Hathaway, Brevity is the soul of wit, facebook, google, Green data center, Internet Explorer, LaMDA, microsoft, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Warren Buffett asks too much for wind energy, it’s “completely ridiculous” to say Google’s chatbot LaMDA is sentient, and Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer ...
Verizon’s Legionella Bugs | Bolt’s Dot-Bomb Echo | Yandex’s Russian CEO Quits
Richi Jennings | | A tale told by an idiot—full of sound and fury signifying nothing, Arkady Yuryevich Volozh, Bolt, Russia, The Long View, Ukraine, Verizon, YandexIn this week’s The Long View: Verizon fined for spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns ...
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
Richi Jennings | | Broadcom, Go, Go language, Golang, Great Resignation, I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it, mergers and acquisitions, The Long View, UPTO, vacation, vmwareIn this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing ...
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, Apple, devops salary, Elon Musk, fakers, machine learning, microsoft, recurring revenue, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...
Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
Richi Jennings | | ADX, Apple, Bluesky, energy, federalism, Great Resignation, Hybrid Work environment, Ireland, May the Fifth be with you, social networks, The Long View, twitter, WFHIn this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working ...
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, agile, Apple TV+, Broadcom, DataOps, devops, google, Great Resignation, Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise, SEO, Severance, The Long View, WFH, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation ...
Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL
Richi Jennings | | bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Digital Markets Act, encryption, Europe, LAPSUS$, Okta, Sitel, The Long View, Uneasy lies the head that wears the crownIn this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption ...
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, Apple, authentication, DNS, Identity, insider threats, LAPSUS$, linux, NIST, Okta, outage, random number generator, The Long View, This above all—to thine own self be trueIn this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again ...
CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000
Richi Jennings | | ARM, CSS-Tricks, digitalocean, Every meeting must involve a parting, gamification, NVIDIA, Peloton, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff ...
Secure Software Summit: The State of OSS Supply Chain Security
The open source software (OSS) supply chain is under attack. As evidenced by the recent Log4Shell vulnerability, the OSS supply chain is increasingly a focus for attackers seeking to exploit weak links ...
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, careers, COVID-19, Failure is the foundation of success—and the means by which it is achieved, Firefox, Gecko, Great Resignation, Linode, Mozilla, remote workers, The Long View, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office ...
Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity
Richi Jennings | | 5G, adtech, advertising, Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, Better.com, FAA, facebook, FCC, google, The Long View, Vishal GargIn this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in ...
