Episode 292: Wrap Around Analysis

This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?

Rundown

• Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT
• Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord
• Amazon Twitter War
• Work / Life
  • Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager?
  • Solomon Hykes is back
  • McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings.

Relevant to your interests

• IBM doubles down on OpenShift
• VMware Cloud announcement
• The New York Times x NFT | Foundation
• Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft
• Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have
• Fintech comes to America at last
• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call
• PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code
• T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app
• Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
• Introducing the Echo subsea cable
• LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
• SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects
• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
• Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm
• ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade
• Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore
• Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work
• Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
• Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding
• Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
• GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
• Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
• Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom

Nonsense

• 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia
• Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team
• Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day
• Steer through the Suez Canal

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Conferences

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Recommendations

• Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip.
• Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner.
• Coté: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black.

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