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Published: Feb. 4, 2022, 6:30 a.m.

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF\u2019s new project and Tim Bray\u2019s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity\u2026

\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Earnings\n\n
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  • Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales
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  • Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue
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  • Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split
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  • Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring
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• OSS Security\n\n
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  • Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
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  • OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects
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• Citrix goes private
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• Tim Bray\u2019s take on Cloud
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement."
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• Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages
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• Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business
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• Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share
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• Science says \u2018Zoom fatigue\u2019 is real \u2014 and worse when you don\u2019t like your face
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• Power tool companies have discovered USB-C
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• Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data \u2013 The Markup
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• Germany will break the Internet
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• A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs
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• Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it
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• Streaming Service Retention Rates
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• Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption
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• Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow\u2019s AI, which led to Zillow Offers\u2019 demise
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• Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO \u2014 and he says it\u2019s his choice
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• The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan
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• How \u201cEngineering-Driven\u201d Leads to \u201cEngineering-Supremacy\u201d
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• Universal Control was worth the wait \u2013 here's how it's changing the way I work
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• Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide
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• .NET Beyond
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• Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant
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• SpaceX\u2019s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month
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• MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation
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• Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion
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• Serverless less trendy?
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke
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\n\nListener Feedback\n\n

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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon:\n\n
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  • Wordle and some news The New York Times Buys Wordle
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• Cot\xe9: The Important Thing podcast.
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• Matt:\n\n
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