Episode Details

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.

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• Google
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  • Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating
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  • Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud
  • Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans
  • Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone
• Security
  • The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened.
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  • The End of Privacy as We Know It?
  • Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout
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  • Ring enables mandatory two-factor authentication and new privacy controls in response to scandals
  • The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony
  • Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe
• M&A and Going Bust
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