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Published: April 2, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?

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• Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT
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• Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord
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• Amazon Twitter War
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• Work / Life\n\n
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  • Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager?
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  • Solomon Hykes is back
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  • McKinsey\u2019s advice to European banks: don\u2019t bring an entourage to meetings.
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• IBM doubles down on OpenShift
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• VMware Cloud announcement
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• The New York Times x NFT | Foundation
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• Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft
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• Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have
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• Fintech comes to America at last
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• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13\u2019s close call
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• PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code
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• T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app
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• Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
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• Introducing the Echo subsea cable
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• LinkedIn confirms it\u2019s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
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• SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects
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• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach \u201cCatastrophic\u201d
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• Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm
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• ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade
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• Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore
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• Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work
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• Discord\u2019s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
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• Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding
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• Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
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• GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
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• Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
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• Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia
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• Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team
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• Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day
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• Steer through the Suez Canal
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\n\nListener Feedback\n\n

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• Dominic recommends NewsBlur to read newsletters
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• Owen recommends Ioreader for newsletters
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• Brian Gracely wants you to work on OpenShift at Red Hat. They are hiring over 10 Product Managers.
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
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• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
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• VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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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 Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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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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• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip.
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• Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner.
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• Cot\xe9: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black.
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