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Published: July 24, 2020, 5:30 a.m.

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Cot\xe9 reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.

\n\nThe Rundown\n\n

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• Google Next\n\n
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  • Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough'
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  • BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics
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  • Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise
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• Rackspace\n\n
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  • Rackspace IPO S1
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  • Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership
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  • Long Term Stock Exchange
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• VC\n\n
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  • Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock
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  • Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M
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  • Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding
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• Messaging\n\n
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  • Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU
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  • Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface
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  • Share screens using Messages on Mac
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• AWS\n\n
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  • Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet
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  • Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud
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  • Just Too Efficient from Tim Bray
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  • Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk
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  • The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS
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• Hacks and Outages\n\n
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  • Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
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  • Twitter explains outage on Twitter
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  • Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others \u2013 TechCrunch
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  • Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019
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• IBM\n\n
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  • IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO
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  • IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse
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• Kube Corner\n\n
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  • Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com
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  • Operator Framework
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• More\n\n
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  • 16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals
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  • Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle
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  • JetBrains Technology Day for Java
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  • Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering
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  • You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
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  • TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They\u2019re Infected
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  • Samsung\u2019s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company\u2019s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology
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  • The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic
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  • It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses
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  • Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale
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  • Dell Says It\u2019s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit
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  • OKD4 is now Generally Available
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  • VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady
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  • Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
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  • How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies
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  • A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web
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  • Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation
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  • How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
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  • Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next)
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  • SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet
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  • How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants
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• IBM job ad calls for 12 years\u2019 experience with Kubernetes \u2013 which is six years old
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• British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets
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• I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors
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• Cot\xe9\u2019s ambient noise videos
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.
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• Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.
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• GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Listen to Richard Seroter interview
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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\xe9\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt Ray: Palm Springs.
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• Brandon: Reckoning.
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• Cot\xe9: \n\n
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  • Vivino wine app (you can order wine, next day!)
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  • Apple Magic Touch pad thing.
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  • Setapp.
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