This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.

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Runner-up Titles

• VP of getting it on


• Neutral trombone


• Good Margin


• Independent from what?


• The New Benevolence


• I have plenty of cynicism for other things

Rundown

• Emojis
  
  
  
  
  • Australian Bigfoot
  
  
  • Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
  
  
  • Matt’s Rankings:
    
    
    
    
    1. Hairy Creature
    
    
    2. Trombone
    
    
    3. Treasure Chest
    
    
    4. Fight Cloud
    
    
    5. Orca
    
    
    6. Landslide
    
    
    7. Apple Core
    
    
    8. Ballet Dancers
    
    
    9. Distorted Face
    
    
  
  


• AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'


• Cloudflare
  
  
  
  
  • Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
  
  
  • Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
  
  
  • Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras
  
  
  • Anubis Web AI Firewall
  
  


• Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List


• Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in.


• Bitnami Secure Images

Relevant to your Interests

• Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users


• Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me


• Dell employees are not OK


• How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine


• Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution


• Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity


• new Date("wtf")


• Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately


• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears


• Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot


• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch


• Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights


• Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI


• The Enshittification of American Power


• Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770


• Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million


• OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing


• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you


• ChatGPT Numbers


• Move Mesos to the Attic


• Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.


• Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion

Nonsense

• Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot


• Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name


• Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday

Conferences

• Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.


• SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.


• Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.


• Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.


• SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.


• Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.


• Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.


• CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.


• AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.

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