This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/lRlWChvJ_m8?si=cZJ-0kzBrEH5ERZh) 530 (https://www.youtube.com/live/lRlWChvJ_m8?si=cZJ-0kzBrEH5ERZh)
Runner-up Titles
VP of getting it on
Neutral trombone
Good Margin
Independent from what?
The New Benevolence
I have plenty of cynicism for other things
Rundown
Emojis
Australian Bigfoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie)
Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name (https://www.engadget.com/mobile/unicodes-new-emoji-refuses-to-put-respect-on-bigfoots-name-184412935.html)
Matt’s Rankings:
Hairy Creature
Trombone
Treasure Chest
Fight Cloud
Orca
Landslide
Apple Core
Ballet Dancers
Distorted Face
AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data' (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data)
Cloudflare
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1-1-1-1-incident-on-july-14-2025/)
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation! (https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/)
Accidental Tech Podcast: 649: Prove It With Cameras (https://atp.fm/649)
Anubis Web AI Firewall (https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis)
Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/model-context-protocol-server-price-list/)
Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025/07/18/chainguard-builds-a-market-everyone-else-wants-in/)
Bitnami Secure Images (https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164)
Relevant to your Interests
Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users (https://cybernews.com/security/chrome-edge-hijacked-by-eighteen-malicious-extensions/)
Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me (https://seroter.com/2025/07/17/code-was-the-least-interesting-part-of-my-multi-agent-app-and-heres-what-that-means-to-me/)
Dell employees are not OK (https://www.yahoo.com/news/dell-employees-not-ok-135038218.html)
How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine (https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-generating-machine-ef78e7a97230)
Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-71825-the-return?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=168595292&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/07/18/a-mid-year-2025-look-at-cncf-linux-foundation-and-the-top-30-open-source-projects/)
new Date("wtf") (https://jsdate.wtf/)
Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/intel-axes-clear-linux-the-fastest-distribution-on-the-market-company-ends-support-effective-immediately)
The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-recruiting-mark-zuckerberg-sam-altman-140d5861?st=pBmtib&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/cursor-snaps-up-enterprise-startup-koala-in-challenge-to-github-copilot/)
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/lovable-becomes-a-unicorn-with-200m-series-a-just-8-months-after-launch/)
Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights (https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/21/apple-details-how-it-trained-its-new-ai-models-4-interesting-highlights/)
Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI (https://www.theverge.com/openai/710836/instacarts-former-ceo-is-taking-the-reins-of-a-big-chunk-of-openai)
The Enshittification of American Power (https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/)
Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/customer-guidance-for-sharepoint-vulnerability-cve-2025-53770/)
Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/business/dealbook/mike-lynch-hp.html)
OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing (https://mashable.com/article/openai-announces-chatgpt-agent-web-browsing)
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/709158/openai-new-release-chatgpt-agent-operator-deep-research)
ChatGPT Numbers (https://www.threads.com/@axios/post/DMXssSjuHax?xmt=AQF0UNyFv8CGZkBsSBbi7XWeXnW67U-Y-ZWQEwDod8lyhA)
Move Mesos to the Attic (https://lists.apache.org/
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Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor. (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/708521/anthropic-hired-back-two-of-its-employees-just-two-weeks-after-they-left-for-a-competitor)
Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/investors-float-deal-valuing-anthropic-100-billion)
Nonsense
Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/coldplay-kiss-cam-exposes-astronomer-142620411.html)
Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name (https://www.engadget.com/mobile/unicodes-new-emoji-refuses-to-put-respect-on-bigfoots-name-184412935.html)
Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/07/atari-is-re-releasing-its-2600plus-to-celebrate-pac-mans-45th-birthday)
Conferences
Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up (https://www.wiz.io/events/sydney-wizdom-meet-up-aug-2025), Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
SpringOne (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us/springone?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cote), Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_xOudsmUmk).
Explore 2025 US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cote), Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-COoeIJcFN4).
Wiz Capture the Flag (https://www.wiz.io/events/capture-the-flag-brisbane-august-2025), Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
SREDay London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q3/), Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
Civo Navigate London (https://www.civo.com/navigate/london/2025), Coté speaking, September 30th.
Texas Linux Fest (https://2025.texaslinuxfest.org), Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd (https://www.papercall.io/txlf2025).
CF Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
AI for the Rest of Us (https://aifortherestofus.live/london-2025), Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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