Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

About this episode

The episode discusses recent tech news including a Cloudflare op-ed, upcoming IPOs, and a GitHub breach, along with a ranking of favorite manifestos.

This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573 Runner-up Titles We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy. Go easy on the AI I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope I should take more showers I came to measure and chew bubblegum Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider. Usability golf No dependencies, no problems Peak Software We are a safe haven for measures Tools and Rules Rundown Layoffs How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation. How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI Revenue and IPO Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion. GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here NHS Pulls OSS Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog Relevant to your Interests Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack Introducing UniFi 5G Backup SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought Microsoft…

Topics covered

• Cloudflare CEO op-ed
• tech IPOs
• GitHub breach
• AI layoffs
• manifestos
• security
• quantum computing

Keywords

• Cloudflare
• GitHub
• AI layoffs
• tech IPOs
• security breach
• quantum computing
• manifestos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare, GitHub, Anthropic, SpaceX, Microsoft, IBM, U.S. Department of Commerce

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