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Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber\u2026

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• Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version
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• Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M
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• Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million
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• Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA
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• Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview
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• Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets.
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• PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty
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• Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers
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• Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects
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• Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F\u2019dcompany.com
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• HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey
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• T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach
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• Funding, Buyback, and Hiring
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• Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
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• In No Code you delete code as you write it.
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• Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021
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• WhatsApp Can\u2019t Ban the Taliban Because It Can\u2019t Read Their Texts
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• OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief
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• Postman\u2019s Series D Funding and the API-First World
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• Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?
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• Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye
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• This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• The Most Dangerous Writing App
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• Suicide Linux
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• Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California
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• These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs
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• How QR codes are made
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• Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips
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• Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes
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• Progress Report: August 2021
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• PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink
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• EC2 offers 400 Instance Types
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• Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
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• SpringOne, Sep 1-2
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• DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Cot\xe9\u2019s promo video.
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• THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: The White Lotus on HBO
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• Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart\n\n
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• Cot\xe9: Sharp R20DS microwave. Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other \u201csmall meals\u201d for rival microwaves.
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