Episode 46 – The Amazon Workers UNITE!!! Soft Serve in the Cafeteria?

Amazon workers take a page from the Google employee handbook….and Robots….always Robots!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/amazon_staffers_protest_firms_support_of_the_surveillance_state/

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Episode 45 – The War on Elon Musk and in other news Intel, Google & Amazon

It’s starting to feel like the Elon Musk “pile on” has begun.  It DEFINITELY happened for Intel’s Krzanich….oops!

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/21/intel-ceo-brian-krzanich-to-step-down-bob-swan-to-step-in-as-interim-ceo.html

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Episode 44 – Docker, The One Ring to rule them All? We still have time for Fallout 4 and Bitcoin.

Docker making bold moves to with Enterprise Edition.  Can it be the One Ring to Rule them All.  We’ll ask Kubernetes.

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Episode 43 – Interview with IBM’s Charles Henderson, Global Managing Partner of X-Force Red

X-Force Red.  Sure, they will break thru building security AND your code, but it’s cool…They get PAID to do it.

Listen to Charles Henderson weave thru the human nature components of security exploits.

We learned about “cover stories”, how to “counter accuse” and why having a “good” corporate culture can actually be a threat vector!

Listen, Learn and laugh while finding out how you too can care about the world…Just like The Tech Fugitives.

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Episode 42 – MIT Builds a Psychopath AI Named Norman. Not marriage material..TRUST US!

If you look at an ink blot photo and see a man being pulled into a dough machine, you MIGHT be a psychopath….You might also be MIT’s AI project.

Episode 41 – Alexa bugs me … REALLY bugs me!

The Fugitives breakdown BREAKDOWNS with Alexa, Cisco and National Australian Bank.

We cover:

“Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” the staffer told the couple, who did not wish to be fully identified, “you’re being hacked.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/alexa_recording_couple/

Eight Cisco NCS 6000 line cards need firmware upgrades, after Switchzilla learned they could be bricked by an IOS XR upgrade.

Listen, Learn and laugh while finding out how you too can care about the world…Just like The Tech Fugitives.

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Episode 40 – Picking apart NAS with NASUNI’s CPO, Russ Kennedy

Russ Kennedy is an renowned expert in the Object Storage space.  Hear what he has to say about today’s tech AND how he is steering Nasuni direction.

We cover:

Why you NO LONGER NEED TO BACKUP YOUR OBJECT STORES!!!!

Data immutability.

Kyle explores the value of testing Nasuni with different cloud providers.

Mark points out why you don’t need an appliance.

All of this and we STILL had time to talk cycling tech!

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Episode 39 – Interview With Dr. Hillery Hunter & Dr. Stefanie Chiras from the IBM Cognitive Space

You simply will not find two people smarter and more interesting to listen to regarding hardware, software and the competition in today’s AI marketplace.

We spoke with:

Dr. Hillery Hunter – IBM Fellow & Director, Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure

Dr. Stefanie Chrias – IBM Vice President, Offering Management for IBM Cognitive Systems

Their passion for what’s happening in AI was so captivating!

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Episode 38 – How to be in a “Super Position” of good ideas and bad ideas simultaneously.

Welcome back to The Tech Fugitives Show… Where your significant other is neither happy or mad at you…until you are observed….It’s called Super Position.

If you think The Tech Fugitives take on Quantum is amazing, then there’s a good chance China will reduce your “Social Credit Score”.  China moves to install 400 million MORE cameras by 2020 to observe its citizens behavior, score it and then dole out consequences.  Well….Those people prolly didn’t want to travel or buy property anyway.

We also discuss:

China’s Surveillance of its citizenry:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/24/china-assigns-every-citizen-a-social-credit-score-to-identify-who-is-and-isnt-trustworthy/

Continuous Experimentation & Learning: 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/16/most_of_our_ideas_suck_so_lets_have_more/

Serverless

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/16/continuous_lifecycle_serverless_continuous_deployment_on_aws/

Zuckerberg just says NO to the Queen:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/15/facebook_refuses_mps/

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Episode 37 – The Big Short’s Steve Eisman channels the Tech Fugitives.

Welcome back to the Tech Fugitives podcast.  Eisman bags on Crypto… makes someone’s day….guess who?

Mark also teases his groundbreaking overview of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing.

We also discuss:

Elon Makes excuses, but we agree with him.

Microsoft’s Nadella tries to earn our trust:  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/microsofts-satya-nadella-trust-will-push-us-past-amazon-google.html

The Secrets to a better password.  Pro Tip: It’s not you’re boy/girlfriend’s dog’s birthday.  

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/secrets-to-a-better-password-and-less-hacks-go-long-use-variety-and-sometimes-lie.html

Big announcements from Google & Microsoft:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17319908/microsoft-build-conference-2018-news-recap-highlights-windows-10

https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2018/05/09/google-i-o-2018-recap-top-10-biggest-announcements/amp/

Listen, Learn and laugh while finding out how you too can care about the world…Just like The Tech Fugitives.

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