Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy

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

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Runner-up Titles

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

Rundown

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

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• Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup
• Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person
• 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco
• Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma
• Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
• A MultiCloud Rant
• Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.
• AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
• AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks
• Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation
• Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project
• VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut
• Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom
• China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report
• Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash
• Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M
• Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
• Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
• Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO
• Top Paying Tools
• Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies
• CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison
• MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
• OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models
• No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
• The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
• IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments
• Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief
• Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
• IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety
• Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes
• List of defunct social networking services
• 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice
• Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
• TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips
• Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd
• The infrastructure behind ATMs
• Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices
• Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors
• Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
• Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs
• CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
• Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union
• World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice
• omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you
• Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.
• Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor
• Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com
• Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
• Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now
• Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info
• Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
• Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation
• Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing
• New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
• Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI
• What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage
• Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.
• How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
• A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
• The golden age of the streaming wars has ended
• YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality ## Nonsense
• The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home
• Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February
• The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.

Conferences

• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
  • Use code SDT for 5% off
• SpringOne, Jan 24–26.
• Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
• State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
• Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

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