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Episode 123 – Is Your Cloud Provider in Retrograde?

Published a few months ago in AWS , Azure , China , Epic Games , ESports , Gluware , Google , Government , Huawei , JEDI

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Episode 87 – IBM Think Impressions

Published last year in Amazon , Amazon Film , AWS , Google , Google Chrome , IBM , IBM Think 2019 , Russia

https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-speed-intrusion-breach/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/15/amazon_no_tax

/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/amazon-casts-a-wider-net-for-its-film-strategy.html

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/16/google_content_blocking_code/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/germany-says-its-not-ready-to-bar-huawei-in-potential-us-snub.html

https://www.research.ibm.com/5-in-5/plate/

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-02-12-IBM-Unveils-New-Offerings-for-Faster-and-More-Secured-Path-to-Hybrid-Cloud

Episode 82 – China Kills Cotton seed. World is Silent.

Published last year in Apple , AWS , China , documentDB , Huawei , JEDI , Oracle , Ren Zhengfei , Tim Cook

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/16/first_moon_plant_dies/

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it’s dead already. The Chinese admit the poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night.

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Episode 80 – Amazon Dumps MongoDB…and MaKenzie :-(

Published a couple of years ago in Amazon , AWS , documentDB , Employee Activism , Epic Games , Facebook , Fortnite , Serverless , Uncategorized , UnReal Engine

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Episode 76 – Doom & Duke Nukem…the state of the Internet, say Inventors.

Published a couple of years ago in AWS , China , Cloud , JEDI , Microsoft , Oracle , Space

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Episode 75 – You’re Passport Data are Belong to Us. Thank you for Staying at Marriott.

Published a couple of years ago in AWS , Bitcoin , Dave Copps , Facebook , Hack , Hypergiant , IoT , iPhone , Sensory Science , Uncategorized

Also Amazon breakup predictions….

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bitcoin-exchange-traded-fund-sec-2018-11SEC Chair, John Clayton “He said the exchanges that cryptocurrencies trade on are still to prone to manipulation, and there aren’t enough safeguards for custody of the underlying assets.

http://time.com/5469153/china-wedding-crackdown/Once again, China attempts to take away our god given right to be jackasses.
https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-amazon-will-spin-off-amazon-web-services-ignition-2018-12

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mby7kq/malware-to-spy-hack-iphones

Governments around the world have been willing to spend a fortune on iOS malware. Saudi Arabia paid $55 million to purchase iPhone malware made by NSO Group,
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/02/facebook-employees-calling-former-colleagues-to-look-for-jobs-outside.html

Six former Facebook employees who left the company within the last two years told CNBC they’ve experienced a rise in contact from current company employees to inquire about opportunities or ask for job references.
The shift in behavior comes as Facebook deals with scandal after scandal while seeing a nearly 40 percent drop in its stock price from a peak in July.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/30/hypergiant-sensory-sciences-raises-5-million-to-track-critical-infrastructure-with-ai/Dave Copps new deal
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/04/nvidia_neural_network/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/29/amazon_makes_liftandshift_play_for_windows_file_and_lustre_workloads/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-aws-outposts/https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-canada/index.htmlhttps://www.businessinsider.com/china-marriott-records-hack-500-million-people-2018-12https://securityintelligence.com/news/marriott-data-breach-impacts-personal-information-of-up-to-500-million-guests/https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/30/marriott-says-up-to-500-million-starwood-hotels-customers-affected-by-hack/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/marriott-hack-raises-questions-about-merger-diligence-tools-in-use.html

In terms of sheer numbers, Marriott’s breach stands out at affecting 500 million people.
The companies’ financials are unlikely to take a substantial hit with cyber insurance coverage in place, but its reputation could pay a price.
Investors will be asking: How could their security tools have missed a massive four-year-long hack? Did the company do the right due diligence during its 2016 merger with Starwood?

In terms of sheer numbers, Marriott’s breach stands out at affecting 500 million people.
The companies’ financials are unlikely to take a substantial hit with cyber insurance coverage in place, but its reputation could pay a price.
Investors will be asking: How could their security tools have missed a massive four-year-long hack? Did the company do the right due diligence during its 2016 merger with Starwood?

Amazon uhttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/29/amazon_makes_liftandshift_play_for_windows_file_and_lustre_workloads/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/announcing-aws-outposts/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-canada/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-marriott-records-hack-500-million-people-2018-12
https://securityintelligence.com/news/marriott-data-breach-impacts-personal-information-of-up-to-500-million-guests/https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/30/marriott-says-up-to-500-million-starwood-hotels-customers-affected-by-hack/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/marriott-hack-raises-questions-about-merger-diligence-tools-in-use.html

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Episode 73 – The Thanksgiving Show

Published a couple of years ago in Apple , AWS , Bezos , IBM , Red Hat

What would it be like if Enterprise IT Suppliers had Black Friday deals? Who would get trampled….and for what?

iPhone select trick

https://www.dummies.com/consumer-electronics/smartphones/iphone/how-to-edit-text-on-your-iphone/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/bitcoin-skids-to-a-13-month-low-nearing-5000.html

The world’s largest cryptocurrency is now down 22 percent in the past week, falling as much as 12 percent Monday to its lowest level in more than a year.
Other major cryptocurrencies ethereum and XRP dropped 13 and 5 percent respectively.
Bitcoin is now down more than 30 percent since last Thanksgiving, when it gained household-name status and became a common topic around dinner tables.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/19/vpn_app_investigation/

Using a free VPN? Why not skip the middleman and just send your data to President Xi?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/439wbw/patching-is-failing-as-a-security-paradigm

This article pisses me off….so long…no answers

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/19/tech-stocks-like-facebook-and-apple-got-crushed-once-again.html

Facebook shares fell after a WSJ report that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is becoming much more aggressive in how he manages the tech giant.
Apple shares dropped following a report the company has cut production for its newest iPhones.
Bitcoin also continued a year-long slide, hitting its lowest level of the year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/bezos-tells-employees-one-day-amazon-will-fail-and-to-stay-hungry.html

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told employees, in response to a question at an all-hands meeting last week, that the company is not “too big to fail.”
Bezos was asked a similar question at an internal meeting in March about Amazon’s size and the potential for government regulation.
Bezos is addressing the concerns as Amazon prepares to expand into two new headquarters locations in New York and Virginia.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-acquires-xoxco-howdy-slack-2018-11

Microsoft announced Wednesday it would acquire an Austin-based software product design and development studio called XOXCO.
XOXCO is known for Howdy, a bot for the popular Slack work chat app that helps schedule meetings, as well as Botkit, which provides development tools for the GitHub code-sharing service.
Microsoft has acquired several other AI startups this year, including Semantic Machines, Bonsai, and Lobe.
Microsoft also announced updates to its AI platform, including a new technology called Cognitive Services Containers.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/24/devops_world_keynote/

CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey referred to as Frankenstein Jenkins or, more snappily, “Jenkinsteins” as teams add plug-ins to create a “gigantic, fragile master that falls apart”.

Dealing with these “Jenkinsteins” is therefore important.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/11/18/three-things-ibm-must-do-to-keep-red-hat-acquisition-from-sinking-the-company/#77601d886d29

This is perhaps the most aggressive analysis of what IBM must do…. I like it!!!

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Episode 56 – Let’s Make Some Rules for Facial Recognition

Published a couple of years ago in AI , Amazon , AWS , China , Cloud , Cloudera , Dell , Facebook , Google , Government , HPE , Igel , Storage

Industry experts discuss the ethics of facial recognition in the public Sector

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/29/17792976/facial-recognition-regulation-rules

We also Discuss

Sony unveiled the Xperia XZ3 at the IFA consumer electronics show.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/sony-xperia-xz3-launch.html

Dissed by Dell?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/30/igel_mgm_resorts_lawsuit/

HPE Storage Sales…Meh…

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/29/lacklustre_hpe_storage_sales_to_rebound/

China cries alligator tears…

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/30/huawei_fcc_competition_intervention/

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-much-have-chinese-actually-taken

http://www.prosperousamerica.org/top_ten_cases_of_chinese_ip_theft

UBS launches new fulfillment platform

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/ups-launches-ware2go-a-platform-aimed-at-helping-small–and-medium-sized-businesses-expand.html

Cloudera flexes

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/29/cloudera_launches_data_warehouse_as_a_service/

FireEye Finding

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/23/fireeye-up-8-percent-on-news-of-facebook-google-findings.html

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Episode 52 – Defcon…Feel the Fear and Log in Anyway

Published a couple of years ago in Amazon , Apple , AWS , Bitcoin , Defcon , Google , Oracle , Security

Reading about hacks at Defcon is starting to feel a bit like watching Jaws trailers. It’s fascinating, but you’re pretty sure someone’s getting eaten….whole. The Tech Fugitives cover some of the more interesting hacks.

https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-research/def-con-2018-26-ten-biggest-hacks/

We also discuss:

Employee burnout…suck it up, cupcake!

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/5-ways-workers-can-avoid-employee-burnout.html

How Google maps rebrands neighborhoods.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/05/new-york-times-digital-rebranding-by-google-maps-hits-home.html

Dropbox disses Linux users

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/14/dropbox_encrypted_linux_support/

Oracle Foul Plan?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/oracle_sued_cloud_numbers/

Headline dolts misrepresentin’

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/charts-point-to-trouble-for-nvidia-on-earnings-this-week.html