Software Defined Talk

Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

Software Defined Talk

Show Notes

This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.

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Runner-up Titles

Turn off my dog

Dad Wisdom

Amazon subscription and let it fly

Dad box

Talking about modernization

Skin in the game

The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”

Business fortnight

No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

Rundown

Rewriting Bun in Rust

OpenAI

OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up

OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?

OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company

OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

Relevant to your Interests

SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company

Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence

Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare

California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate

Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined

Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI

Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack

IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks

Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform

Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments

1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords

1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude

forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software

What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month

China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance

Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?

AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:

China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture

Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?

IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning

Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD

Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years

Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally

Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion

Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine

Sponsors

Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

Nonsense

Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings

United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other tr

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