git branches: intuition & reality
1_DevOps'ish
Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions
Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell
Is India increasingly engaged in transnational repression? | Semafor
New reports illustrate the Indian government's alleged efforts to silence dissidents abroad.
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Blog: Spotlight on SIG Testing
Blog: Spotlight on SIG Testing https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2023/11/24/sig-testing-spotlight-2023/
Microsoft advances toward glass-based archival storage – Blocks and Files
Project Silica, a Microsoft plan to store archival data inside slabs of quartz glass, is getting closer to becoming a product.
Exclusive: Amazon to win unconditional EU nod for iRobot deal -sources
Amazon is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $1.4 billion acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot , three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Week Ending November 19 2023
Week Ending November 19, 2023 http://lwkd.info/2023/20231122
kubernetes-sigs/karpenter: Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity. - GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/karpenter: Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, ...
Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22 2023
Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 https://news.vmware.com/releases/broadcom-and-vmware-intend-to-close-transaction-on-november-22-2023
Stop it | Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive (Gift Article)
The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.
The Director's Guide to Observability: Leveraging OpenTelemetry in Complex Systems
Observability promotes a holistic approach to understanding complex systems. Learn how it can help teams ship quickly and with confidence.
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (Update: Statement)
Users are reporting that YouTube has begun adding a five second delay when loading a video on non-Chrome browsers like Firefox. Read on!
Opinion: China’s rainmakers exit stage left as Beijing cleans its financial house
While China’s rainmakers have been essential to the country’s great market opening, corruption concerns and a changing geopolitical balance have seen them pushed to the sidelines.
How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Kept the ‘Best Bromance in Tech’ Alive (Gift Article)
Mr. Nadella moved fast to hire Sam Altman, who was pushed out of OpenAI on Friday, and asserted his company’s role in its partnership with the A.I. start-up.
Reducing Developer Overhead by 50% by Migrating to Amazon EKS with Mobileye
Reducing Developer Overhead by 50% by Migrating to Amazon EKS with Mobileye https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/mobileye-eks-case-study/
CNCF Landscape
CNCF Landscape https://cncf.landscape2.io/guide#introduction
A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees
Spotify’s “unprecedented” popularity justified the deal.
Increasing QUIC and UDP throughput over Tailscale
We’re releasing a set of changes that builds on the foundation of our earlier WireGuard performance work, significantly improving UDP throughput on Linux. As with the previous work, we intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard. Our changes improve throughput for HTTP/3, QUIC, and other UDP-based applications through the use of segmentation offloads. UDP throughput over Tailscale increases 4x on bare metal Linux, and pushes past (for now) the in-kernel WireGuard implementation on that hardware. You can experience these improvements in Tailscale v1.54.
Open science discovery of potent noncovalent SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors
An open-science effort yields a promising noncovalent inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease.
Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | Ledger
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help of my therapist, […]
The reincarnation of totaled Teslas—in Ukraine
Cars deemed unfixable in North America are resurrected in Eastern Europe.
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to follow Altman to Microsoft unless board resigns
Hundreds of OpenAI employees have signed a letter demanding the board resign or face an employee exodus to Altman's new venture at Microsoft.
Reversing AWS IAM unique IDs
A few years ago, I wrote about determining AWS account IDs from AWS access keys, i.e. those strings that begin with AKIA or ASIA. It’s also possible to determine information from other AWS IAM unique IDs, specifically these two from the table in Amazon’s docs.
What color bubbles will RCS messages be? Here's Apple's answer - 9to5Mac
Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story...
What Is Observability? Key Components and Best Practices
In this article, we will demystify observability—a concept that has become indispensable in modern software development and operations.
I’ve really been liking Claude lately | Use GenAI to Uncover New Insights into Your Competitors
Companies have a growing problem of information overload regarding markets and competitors, which often prevents the C-suite from making the best decisions available given the data at its disposal. While generative AI is often pitched as a way to create new content (information in, message out), it can work just as well — or depending on the application, even better — in reverse (message in, information out). And this counterintuitive application of generative AI is starting to enable leaders in marketing, strategy, and competitive intelligence to unearth strategically relevant insights about their competitors from documents made publicly available by those competitors. In other words, generative AI can become the watchful eye that spots useful insights in the field of competitive intelligence.
Who is new interim OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear? All you need to know about the man replacing Sam Altman
After a weekend of rumor and speculation, Emmett Shear — former CEO of Twitch — confirmed he will take the top job at OpenAI.