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Episode 589: He's the Heel

This week, we discuss the VS Code documentary, Ed Zitron's rise to fame, and a 10% AI extinction forecast. Plus, the NFL's Australia travel gamble Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 589 Runner-up Titles Sleep Strategy Obviously I Have Issues Not Sure It Was an Exciting Thing At One Point, I Knew That Bitterness Rug Pull The American in Me Would Be Bitter Gaping Pit of Despair They Don't Care if They Never Sell a Thing It's the First Time Silicon Valley Has Done Something Irresponsible With VC Money We've Got to Drive as Fast Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It We're Already Having to Keep Track of Which Time AGI Actually Started Nobody Can See That You Have Size Eighteen Fonts The Dystopian Future Always Takes Place in Australia We Gotta Drive as Fast as We Can Into This Wall and See if We Get Through It Even the Dutch Have Problems With Internet We Could Do Better, Slack Rundown The Rams think they’ve figured out jet lag. Australia is about to test their theory The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary He Did Tech PR. Now He Rails Against AI for a Living. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic and says no one is acting responsibly. Apple’s iPhone Duo Relevant to your Interests The AI Engine That Re-Accelerated Snowflake 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority… Mistral secures €3B Series D to push sovereign AI into its next phase Clouded Judgement 9.4.26 - Recurrent Depth Write Things Down Nonsense Southwest Airlines to construct first-ever airport lounge at Austin airport The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish Listener Feedback OpenAudible - Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Base Power Matt: Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7 Pole: Wald Aaron: World Summit, Amsterdam Dungeon Crawler Carl YINYOO KBEAR Storm Professional in Ear Monitor Special Guest: Aaron Delp.

09-11
58:06

Episode 588: Check Your Bank Accounts

This week, we discuss rogue AI agent civilizations, why AI can't fix your tax forms, and Chainguard vs. IBM's Lightwell. Plus, refrigerator magnet marketing. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 588 Runner-up Titles Mark this moment Refrigerator magnets Fester in your inbox The reaction would not be “let’s have a podcast about it” Maximum boasty Your silos are showing They want me to get started The really is no plan except eating RISCy business It's Not Only the AIs Acting Like Middle Schoolers We Fell for It Agent Zero Was the Problem I Thought You Were My Friend More Salsa Than Chewy's in 2004 Vibes based analysis Rundown Agent Civilizations The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (podcast) Who Wins Hardened Containers Chainguard's Athena clears 40,000 vulnerabilities Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats Start Secure in the AI Era: Accelerating AI Threat Readiness with WizOS Lightwell (IBM) Lightwell (Red Hat) The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release Relevant to your Interests AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m world record at Beijing games Observability Revenue Bill Gates Warns AI Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days Twitter - The Square Is Back Inside Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers Kara Swisher on Threads Nvidia (NVDA) Q2 2027 earnings report: Live updates Claudeforce: The AI Interface Salesforce Never Built Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to "SaaSpocalypse" concerns Nonsense Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons Dinner for A.I. C.E.O. Is Postponed Dyson CameraJet: The first toothbrush with a camera and a jet, to target the gaps and remove plaque between your teeth Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Violent Ends entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere Matt: MeetingBar Futurama - Parasites Lost Coté: NØLSON clothes. Explore videos are up

09-04
55:34

Episode 587: The Singularity Didn't Happen on the First

This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587 Runner-up Titles Inertia wins again We don’t talk about the Pope very much. Better than this year’s storage arrays AI pimps its own ride Chonking machine A lot of chonk opportunity I’m tired of tech people being all fancy Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron No religion, no politics, no AI My recommendation: try harder Teletubbies for Adults. Rundown Singularity, Models and Routers Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time The AI backlash goes mainstream 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? The AI Hater's Manifesto 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents Relevant to your Interests Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors Nonsense Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Tuner ** Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents Matt: Tech, Texas & What It Takes to Run a Podcast with Matt Ray | Cyber Chat Ep. 5 Line of Duty Anti-pick: Roku’s New Slop Channel Coté: Mini MLC, 30L.

08-28
01:07:54

Episode 586: Watermark Away, Baby

This week, we discuss the unsung genius of Apple Pay, AI watermarking, and why digital transformation fails without a crisis. Plus, D&D Beyond's secret character API. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 586 Runner-up Titles Special Sauce A new monkey’s thing I am all for USB-C Did I like it It’s all water marked' That NPC did need to be there It's Pre-Watermarked We Need to Touch Grass More Send Us Your APIs Rundown Apple Pay Chief Jennifer Bailey Retiring in October AI Watermarking's Unintended Consequences Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations Why "It's People, Not Tech" Never Actually Changes Anything The Chief Therapy Officer, Job Titles as Culture Change, and AI as Spreadsheets, with Bryan Ross Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster Silver Lake's Workday Buyout Talks Could Be the First 'SaaSpocalypse' Opportunity Relevant to Your Interests Limitless: An AI Podcast | The NVIDIA Bank: Jensen's $500B Wall Street Deal and GPUs as an Asset Class Inside North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market The shapeshifter's little brother Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic Broadcom Shares Plunge on Major VMware Security Threat IRS Proposes Simpler Process for Retirement Rollovers The Actual Reason Why Google "Fell Out" of the AI Race Changes Everything Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study Farewell, Mico: Microsoft's cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps Google may retire Gems in October, forcing Skills migration OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is leading early IPO meetings with investors and has not discussed valuation, sources say Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Listener Feedback Milestone iOS App Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: TextSniper Coté: the dndbeyond.com API for AI: curl -s "https://character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v5/character/145972701"

08-21
01:00:27

Episode 585: I'm not a total AI hater, I'm a finance hater

This week, we discuss Zuckerberg's open source AI manifesto, GPUs as securitizable assets, and who actually gets AI ROI. Plus, Buc-ee's goes to war over beavers. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 585 Runner-up Titles Law of Unintended Consequences We’re not lawyers, we just have common sense Trillion-dollar open source company The Meta Manifesto I don’t think self-awareness is their strong point. Using AI to fight AI Put me as a strong maybe. Rundown Days after John Oliver's dare, Buc-ee's sues again Meta's Big AI Week The Future is for Everyone Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI Superintelligence is a dragon Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time The AI Money Machine Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’ 48% of Google Cloud Revenue Next Year Could Come From Just 2 Companies That Have Still Never Turned a Profit Datadog Says Lower Usage From Major AI Customer Could Dent Growth Relevant to your Interests New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 TechCrunch OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide A road trip through the data center debate A Top OpenAI Executive Steps Down Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers The next generation of MCP How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat Nonsense Buc-off Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Furious on Hulu Matt: NearbyWiki Reading Maps Infrastructure Frontiers podcast Coté: IncomphrensibleMedia.com Elgato Teleprompter TelepromterPro+

08-14
01:04:14

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