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Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss Amazon\u2019s \u201cBuilder Experience\u201d Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack\u2019s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Cot\xe9 embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.

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• Freed from Intel
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• It works!
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• Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
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• It will be fun
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• The Apple Chip
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• A Demi Kettle
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• Pay for your own Flu
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• Free to interrupt me
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• Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
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• None of us can master the intranet.
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• The network is the calendar.
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
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• Adobe\n\n
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  • Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
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  • Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
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  • Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
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  • What Adobe\u2019s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
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• Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?\n\n
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  • Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
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  • Slack\u2019s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
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• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
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• A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
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• Ethereum Is Merging
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• Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk
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• Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile
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• Audio subscription platform Podimo raises \u20ac58.6M
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• Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language
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• Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong
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• Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live \u2014 here's what it does
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• Amazon Web Services \u2014 Acquired
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• It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors
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• Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
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• Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing
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• Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
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• McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data.
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• Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO
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• Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation
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• Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget
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• JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers
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• The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn\u2019t Tell You About
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• Document Foundation charges \u20ac8.99 for macOS LibreOffice
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• Sharp Tech
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• Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives
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• A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings
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• Charted: Big Tech market values
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• Private equity may become a \u2018pyramid scheme\u2019, warns Danish pension fund
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• The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
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• YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
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• File this under: Old Bay goes with anything
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• I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt\u2019s presenting
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• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 \u2013 28, 2022
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• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6\u20138, 2022
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• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
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\n\nListener Feedback\n\n

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• Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Get a SDT Sticker! 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, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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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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• Brandon:\n\n
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  • Listen to Brandon\u2019s appearance on the Cloudcast
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  • Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
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• Cot\xe9: \u201cWarm Oak.\u201d Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.
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• Banner Photo
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• CoverArt
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