Episode 320: Hash codes for everyone

This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes…

Rundown

• Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products
  • Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case
  • Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
  • Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments
  • FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
  • Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw
  • The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event
  • iPadOS 15.
• Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk

Relevant to your interests

• Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
• Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video
• EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
• Epic is shutting down Houseparty
• Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances
• Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen
• Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
• How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe
• Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet
• Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment
• Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
• Open Scheduling Infrastructure, Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation
• The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape
• Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs
• strongDM Raises $54M Series B ****
• Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding
• Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group
• Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly
• Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
• Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation
• Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion

Nonsense

• They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas
• How long are you in meetings?
• Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About
• Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget

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Conferences

• DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
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