Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide

This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….
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Rundown
Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/23000148/eu-dma-damage-whatsapp-encryption-privacy)
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/)
Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players (https://www.mmorpg.com/news/amazon-game-studio-head-steps-down-amid-declining-new-world-active-players-2000124647)
Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/03/25/netflix-buys-boss-fight-in-latest-gaming-acquisition)
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/)
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This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….

Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups.

Rundown

Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability
Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players
Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

Relevant to your Interests

Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet
Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos
PlanetScale Rewind
Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch
Sealed IBM files in age-discrimination case now public
Want to smell in virtual reality? A Vermont-based startup has the technology
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
Nvidia CEO to Look at Intel for Foundry, Says Shift Will Be Hard (
Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B
Texas has enough wind and solar power to replace coal almost entirely
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Malicious Packages in npm Targeting Azure Developers
Google Issues Emergency Security Warning For 3.2 Billion Chrome Users
The public really have no idea what we do, do they
The single-largest wind farm in North America comes online in Oklahoma
Apple’s iPhone SE is the nail in the mmWave 5G coffin
Gravity - Issue 1: Analytics
HP seeks to ride hybrid work boom with $1.7 billion Poly buyout
Chrome and Edge hit with V8 type confusion vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit
Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa.
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
Arm plans transfer of shares in renegade China unit to speed up IPO
20 Kubernetes Blogs, Journals, and Podcasts to Follow in 2022
Okta: "We made a mistake" delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
More Okta
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