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Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 6:30 a.m.

This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce\u2019s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes\u2026

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396

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• Work trying to get on my personal calendar
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• Traveling with an infant
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• =BLACKSWAN(A1:G453)
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• Socks in a Costco
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• Can\u2019t do the business case on savings until you loose it.
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• Pay transparency for you, not me
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• We don\u2019t pay for things on the Internet
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• Semper Nimbus Privatus
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth,
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• Digital Transformation Travel Edition\n\n
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  • Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1
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  • The Southwest Airlines Meltdown
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  • Southwest\u2019s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million
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  • Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco
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  • Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo
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• Point of Sale: Scan and Pay
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• Work Life\n\n
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  • Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
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  • Netflix Revokes Some Staff\u2019s Access to Other People\u2019s Salary Information
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  • U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts
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  • Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023
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  • Netflix revokes some staff\u2019s access to other people\u2019s salary information
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• SFDC\n\n
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  • Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut
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  • Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space
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  • After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivity
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• AI is everywhere\n\n
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  • Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology
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  • Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google
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  • Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT
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  • Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• 2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin
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• Twitter\u2019s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos
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• On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience
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• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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• Inside the chaos at Washington\u2019s most connected military tech startup
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• Elon Musk Starts Week As World\u2019s Second Richest Person
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• 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco
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• Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma
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• Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
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• A MultiCloud Rant
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• Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.
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• AG Paxton\u2019s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
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• AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks
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• Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation
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• Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project
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• VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut
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• Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom
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• China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report
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• Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash
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• Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M
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• Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
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• Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
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• Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO
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• Top Paying Tools
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• Winging It: Inside Amazon\u2019s Quest to Seize the Skies
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• CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison
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• MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
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• OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models
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• No, You Haven\u2019t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods
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• The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
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• IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments
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• Cyber attacks set to become \u2018uninsurable\u2019, says Zurich chief
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• Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
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• IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety
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• Europe Taps Tech\u2019s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes
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• List of defunct social networking services
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• 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice
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• Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
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• TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips
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• Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd
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• The infrastructure behind ATMs
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• Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices
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• Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors
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• Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
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• Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs
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• CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
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• Video game workers form Microsoft\u2019s first U.S. labor union
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• World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice
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• omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you
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• Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.
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• Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor
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• Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com
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• Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
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• Adobe\u2019s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now
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• Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info
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• Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
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• Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation
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• Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records\u2013and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing
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• New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
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• Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI
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• What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage
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• Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.
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• How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
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• A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
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• The golden age of the streaming wars has ended
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• YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality\n## Nonsense
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• The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home
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• Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February
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• The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th\n\n
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  • Use code SDT for 5% off
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• SpringOne, Jan 24\u201326.
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• Cot\xe9 speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
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• State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
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• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 \u2013 2, 2023
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• Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
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• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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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: Industrial Garage Shelves
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• Matt: Oxide and Friends: Breaking it down with Ian Brown\n\n
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  • Wu Tang Saga Season 3 coming next month!
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• Cot\xe9: Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson.
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