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Published: May 7, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss Red Hat\u2019s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal\u2019s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.

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• Red Hat\n\n
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  • Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
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  • Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
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  • RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
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• AWS\n\n
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  • Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
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  • AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
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  • The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
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• The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
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• DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
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• How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
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• Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
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• About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
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• How Basecamp blew up
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• Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
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• The ransomware surge ruining lives
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• Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
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• The Epic Games trial has exposed the \u2018Fortnite\u2019 maker\u2019s inner workings. Here\u2019s what we learned.
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• AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
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• Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients\u2019 Deepest Secrets Online
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• Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
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• Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
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• In huge demand right now: Warehouses
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• Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
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• Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
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• Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
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• Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
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• Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
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• Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
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• Ethereum\u2019s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World\u2019s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
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• New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
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• How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
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• Oversight Board upholds former President Trump\u2019s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
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• ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
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• Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
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• Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
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• Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
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• "Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.\u201d (@AdamMGrant)
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• Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• 'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
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• Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
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• Meet Einstein
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• Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO
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\n\nListener Feedback\n\n

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• Jeffrey want you to become the SRE - World of Warcraft
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon:\n\n
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  • Mare of Eastown
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  • Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated
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• Matt:
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  • Long Service Leave
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