Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide

This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….

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Rundown

• Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption
• Europe says yes to messaging interoperability
• Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players
• Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition
• As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

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• Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch
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• Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
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• Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B
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• The Overcast Redesign: Part One
• Malicious Packages in npm Targeting Azure Developers
• Google Issues Emergency Security Warning For 3.2 Billion Chrome Users
• The public really have no idea what we do, do they
• The single-largest wind farm in North America comes online in Oklahoma
• Apple’s iPhone SE is the nail in the mmWave 5G coffin
• Gravity - Issue 1: Analytics
• HP seeks to ride hybrid work boom with $1.7 billion Poly buyout
• Chrome and Edge hit with V8 type confusion vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit
• Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa.
• Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
• Arm plans transfer of shares in renegade China unit to speed up IPO
• 20 Kubernetes Blogs, Journals, and Podcasts to Follow in 2022
• Okta: "We made a mistake" delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
• Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
• More Okta
• The Okta Mess Is Even Worse Than It Appears
• Google Calendar now lets paid users create a “booking page” website
• Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
• HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar speaks to The Reg

Nonsense

• Reference Letter
• Cybersecurity and Skin Care
• U.S. Nuclear Power to China? - Freakonomics
• Some news from Austin
• Dyson's First Wireless Headphones: Fresh Tunes and Fresh Air

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