Episode 572: The world isn’t curl

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of security and software development, focusing on recent industry news and trends.

This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572 Runner-up Titles Sugar Kingdom Bastard Sugar Choose butter It’s just AI now People don’t like paying for software It’s an exciting time to be writing software Are we going to start funding open source? Speaking of that, but not that, it’s totally unrelated We’re leaving the table Weird network stuff That box of cables on GitHub Rundown Security Mini Shai-Hulud Is Back: npm Worm Hits over 160 Packages Fedora Hummingbird Linux Brings Agentic Linux to Builders Red Hat Hardened Images Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents Mythos finds a curl vulnerability Redis and the Cost of Ambition AI is restructuring the software industry — winners and losers Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat Cloudflare stock sinks 24% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees Linear increases workforce Relevant to your Interests Laws, anecdotes, idioms, and other shit people say - cote.pizza The smart lock standard that could…

People in this episode

Host: Coté

Topics covered

• security
• cloud computing
• software development
• business strategy
• technology news

Keywords

• security
• Cloudflare
• Datadog
• open source
• AI
• software industry
• npm vulnerability
• Hummingbird Linux

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare, Datadog, Red Hat, Palo Alto Networks, OpenAI

Products: npm, Redis, Hummingbird Linux

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