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Published: Oct. 6, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App.

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• All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine
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• We\u2019re doing this for science
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• No, just no, Dad
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• No exceeding expectations in that role
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• I will do horrible things with YAML
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• My business is my business
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• They don\u2019t have room for purity
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Emergency broadcast not used by Trump
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• CBP announces new
  
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• MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices
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• Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch"
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• Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow \u2018infrastructure as code\u2019 platform
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• Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira
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• Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION
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• The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
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• Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case
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• FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality
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• Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT
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• Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs
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• How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton
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• Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on
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• The potential gap
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• Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming
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• What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine
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• Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle
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• Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
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• Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier
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• Amazon Used Secret \u2018Project Nessie\u2019 Algorithm to Raise Prices
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• Look what ChatGPT vision can do.
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• Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta\u2019s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware
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• AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality
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• The Senate\u2019s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos.
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours
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• Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam
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• Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering
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• November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT\u2019s a sponsor, Matt\u2019s there
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• November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Cot\xe9\u2019s attending
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• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
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• If you want your conference mentioned, let\u2019s talk media sponsorships.
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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: Dental Monitoring and Anker Magsafe Battery
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• Matt: Search Engine podcast: Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?
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