Chaos Lever Podcast

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 006 Published: 8/24/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/24/2023 Mister Ethan Banks, my cohost for Day Two Cloud joins us for a slightly modified Tech News of the Week. Jetporch is the new Ansible Ubicloud is your cloud on BMaaS GCP offering 200Gb free egress SUSE is going private, again Bored Ape owners sue Sotheby, celebrities, and probably you ChatGPT hacked multiple time...

Software Licensing is BS…L Episode: 70 Published: 8/22/2023 HashiCorp Switches to BSL And I Hate Everyone and Everything Well, maybe not everyone. This week we decided to do a little crossover episode with my other podcast Day Two Cloud . My cohost from the D2C pod, Ethan Banks, joins me and Chris to discuss the latest licensing changes over at HashiCorp. Eight of those projects shifted to the Bus...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 005 Published: 8/17/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/17/2023 HashiCorp Switching to Business Source Licensing Intel CPUs found to be vulnerable to Downfall attack Other sources make it look easier Arm Poised to Go Over The Top With IPO Microsoft Teams has a lot of seemingly-antiquated requirements around setting up Teams and Channels Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavan...

Soapbox Engineering? Episode: 69 Published: 8/15/2023 Buzzword Bingo - Software Development Edition: Platform Engineering Gartner’s Platform Engineering Definition Platform Engineering not just another way to say DevOps Platform Engineering has been identified in the Innovation Trigger phase of the Gartner Hype Cycle since August of 2022 Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 004 Published: 8/10/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/10/2023 Local DevOps event happening soon - there���s still time to apply to present The SEC Demands Faster Breach Disclosure Zoom entering the Generative AI game, while also entering the ���appropriate your content to train Generative AI��� game First Room-Temp Superconductor Seems Suspect Intro and outro music by Ned...

Honesty Is The Worst Policy Episode: 68 Published: 8/8/2023 Microsoft: ���Honesty Is The Worst Policy��� There���s a critical flaw with the Power Platform Microsoft publishes two blogs detailing the malicious campaign of the Storm-0558 Group Microsoft expands cloud logging for Purview Audit to include premium level for all customers Wiz publishes blog claiming MSA key extends beyond OWA and outloo...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 003 Published: 8/3/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/3/2023 How might AI take over Hollywood? Let us count the ways For a long time there have been foreign language versions of hollywood movies AWS Starts Charging for Public IPv4 Companies are setting up cloud services for private AI instances for quite the pretty penny FCC Updating Their Broadband Internet Standard to Ma...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 002 Published: 7/20/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/20/2023 Broadcom Moves One Step Closer To BroadWare Microsoft���s Acquisition of Activision is Finally, Finally, Probably, Happening InfluxDB Deletes Data Too Soon, Thinks People Read Their Emails Worthless Coward Elon Musk Thinks Another Company Is A good Idea Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Hyper Prologue Log Episode: 67 Published: 7/18/2023 HyperLogLog - Just About The Greatest Name For An Algorithm That I Think Is Even Possible HyperLogLog A sorting visualizer in case this kind of thing is your bag, baby There���s a paper out there that proposes HyperLogLogLog HyperBitBit If you are truly curious, read this paper from Google Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 001 Published: 7/13/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/10/2023 AI Fails At Writing Gizmodo Stories, Because Of Course It Does JumpCloud Leaps Into Action Facebook Launches Twitter Clone - It���s Super Effective! Privacy Policy Comparison from Ars Technica IDC Says Public Cloud Is Winning The Race Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Microaggressive Licensing Episode: 66 Published: 7/11/2023 Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategy The kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus Torvalds GPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source co...

Thirty-Six GigaToasters Episode: 65 Published: 7/4/2023 Security Field Day 9 Wrap-Up Security Field Day 9 Home Page Noname Security Commvault Threatwise NetAlly CyberScope HashiCorp Boundary Cisco 4200 Firewalls Cribl Stream Lightning Round Microsoft Rebranding Yammer as Viva Engage Red Hat, Once Open Source���s Biggest Success Story, Continues To Turn It���s Back On The Movement Where Should You...

Just Disappointed Episode: 64 Published: 6/27/2023 CISA says to Federal agencies that they���re tired of these Monkey-Fighting security configuration aches, on these Monday to Friday management planes! Binding Operation Directive from CISA BrightTalk presentation that goes over the latest version (version 2.0) They have a ���Cyber Hygeine��� program that any given company can sign up for, for free...

Sometimes You���re The Problem Episode: 63 Published: 6/20/2023 OpenStack - or The Future That Almost Was and Somehow IS? The biggest complaints around running OpenStack An article by Jeffrey Burt on The Next Platform points out The OpenStack Big Tent Lightning Round Intel Dives Into Quantum Realm (again,) With 12 Qubit CPU Based on Old Tech Microsoft Overwhelmed By Massive DDoS MoveIt Supply Chai...

Cher: The Cheez-It of Pop Episode: 62 Published: 6/13/2023 Hyperautomation, or a topic I picked specifically because I thought the title would make Ned mad The antikythera mechanism These computers were actual human beings They were called knocker-uppers Hyperautomation defined by Gartner Lightning Round Lotus Eaters Continue To Bask In The Glory Of Domino Barracuda Announces The Worst Security Br...

The Algorithm Made Me Do It Episode: 61 Published: 6/6/2023 Cloud Field Day 17 Wrap-Up Cloud Field Day 17 in beautiful Boston, MA HYCU is focus on SaaS backup RackN orchestrates bare-metal infrastructure Couchbase offers managed DBaaS in multiple clouds Lightning Round Microsoft Announces Cortana Taking A Backseat In Windows UI Google Cloud is sending friend requests to AWS and Azure Def Con Atten...

Lying To Itself And Others Episode: 60 Published: 5/30/2023 Microsoft Build and Red Hat Summit News At IBM���s Think event earlier this year, they created the new brand of watsonx Sign Up Page for Ansible Lightspeed Based on a cursory reading of their documentation, Red Hat AI is a rebranding exercise AI was splashed all over every product in Microsoft���s portfolio You could just watch a keynote...

New Ways To Do Things Wrong: RSA Conference 2023 Episode: 59 Published: 5/23/2023 RSA 2023: I didn���t go, so you don���t have to either! There were at least 333 scheduled events coverint 25 discrete topics that took place at RSA 2023 Some of the topics and sessions from RSA 2023 are starting to be available on YouTube The Simple Yet Lethal Anatomy of a Software Supply Chain Attack Lightning Round...

Squiggly Red Lines: Adventures in WiFi 7 Episode: 58 Published: 5/16/2023 WiFi 7 Is Coming For Your Children WiFi 7 Standard 802.11 Standards in general WiFi 7 Overview TP-Link WiFi 7 Lightning Round Google Still Struggling To Recover From Zone Outage In Paris A Shocking New Attack Overpowers Servers Literally Microsoft-Activision merger Approved By EU Microsoft Signs On to Make Datacenter Fusion...

Moar AI Goshdarnit Episode: 57 Published: 5/9/2023 The Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs Can GPT4 replaces writers? ChatGPT has given better results than humans to people asking medical questions to a hospital help chat Deep Learning famously helped epidemiologists with reading lab results and detecting breast cancer That time scientists beat a computer that was literally the best in the world at Go...

Regular Mario Can���t Jump: The State of IPv6 in 2023 Episode: 56 Published: 5/2/2023 State of IPv6 in 2023 IPv5 was a failed attempt to support voice over IP at the protocol layer According to Google, 43% of traffic was using IPv6 Bahrain and India top out the countries adopting IPv6 at 100% and 67.5% respectively RIPE labs IPv6 report indicates that IPv6 readiness and usage actually dropped in t...

Leo The Angry Penguin: A Malware Cautionary Tale Episode: 55 Published: 4/25/2023 A True (enough) Story of One Company���s Adventures in Almost Going Bankrupt Because of Malware 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report Lightning Round Cloud Outage Insurance is a Real Thing You Should Probably Have Microsoft to Change Functionality of Print Screen Button to Just Open The Snipping Tool Bard AI...

An Oddly Shaped Cloud: Flexera State of the Cloud 2023 Episode: 54 Published: 4/18/2023 How is Cloud Doing These Days? Flexera releases its state of the cloud report Andy Jassy’s Stockholder Letter Lightning Round Google CEO Warns About Unknown Impacts Of AI, Pitches Some Decent Ideas CodeWhisperer is the Creepiest AWS Product Name Yet Qualcomm Designing new iSIM, Meant To Replace eSIMs, Which I D...

Know Thyself Jellyfish: OWASP API Security Top 10 Countdown Episode: 53 Published: 4/11/2023 OWASP releasing an update to the API Security Top 10 Updated API Security Top 10 List According to HackerOne, after websites themselves, APIs are the number two attack vector on the internet In November of last year, Twitter was hacked utilizing an API vulnerability that was only feasible using automation...

Electoral College of My Emotions: AI is a Stupid Parrot with a God Complex Episode: 52 Published: 4/4/2023 AI is a Parrot with a God Complex A.I. is B.S. by Adam Conover Forrest Brazeal has a think about AI Ben Thompson on AI Heavy Strategy: ChatGPT is coming for your job On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots Moratorium on LLM and AI development Lightning Round Microsoft announces a new Teams clien...