This week, we discuss IBM acquisitions, IDEs in the age of AI, and bidding farewell to Skype. Plus, the dos and don’ts of using chat in corporate meetings.Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/nWu6QCcr_xo?si=yCZKxkmYK8c6GmOy) 509 (https://www.youtube.com/live/nWu6QCcr_xo?si=yCZKxkmYK8c6GmOy)Runner-up TitlesI’m going to make a point until the other people stop talkingIs there a place I can type?Rediscovering USENETLet me introduce you to Del.icio.usThat Big Blue HOAThat assumes that enterprise IT is compellingThe Costco liquor store is Open SourceLights out programming.The WebKit of IDEsThe DevRel that makes a differenceRundownIBM roll ups?Accelerating Production AI and Bringing NoSQL Data at Scale to All Enterprises (https://www.datastax.com/blog/ibm-plans-to-acquire-datastax)IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp, (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform)IDE up for grabsAI disruption - code editors are up for grabs (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025/02/21/ai-disruption-code-editors-are-up-for-grabs/)Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/google-launches-a-free-ai-coding-assistant-with-very-high-usage-caps/)Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/googles-principles-for-measuring-developer-productivity)GoodbyeUpdate on Support for Amazon Chime (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/update-on-support-for-amazon-chime/)Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May (https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-killing-skype/), Om’s ode to Skype (https://om.co/2025/02/28/skype-is-dead-what-happened/).Relevant to your InterestsThe Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk (https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-death-and-life-of-prediction-markets-at-google)Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source (https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/)Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quantum-computing-topological-qubit.html)Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan's Approach to Antitrust (https://daringfireball.net/2025/02/thoughts_and_observations_on_todays_iphone_16e_announcement)No Rules Are Implicit Rules (https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/02/no-rules-are-implicit-rules/)Is AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI? (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-year-of-ai/)Apple Unveils New Lower-Priced iPhone With A.I. Features (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/business/apple-iphone-16e-ai.html)HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_deliberately_adds_15_minutes/)YouTube Plans Lower-Priced, Ad-Free Version of Paid Video Tier (https://archive.ph/2025.02.20-175148/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/youtube-plans-lower-priced-ad-free-version-of-paid-video-tier)Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite (https://www.theverge.com/news/617009/google-youtube-premium-lite-us-launch)He created one of the world’s first websites. It was IMDb. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/02/23/imdb-internet-history-col-needham/)Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs (https://www.troyhunt.com/processing-23-billion-rows-of-alien-txtbase-stealer-logs/)Introduction to Service Mesh (https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-service-mesh/)Slack is down — live updates on massive outage (https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/slack-down-updates-outage-2-25)Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence)Alphabet's Google cuts some cloud division staff, Bloomberg reports (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabets-google-cuts-cloud-division-192306780.html)British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work (https://apnews.com/article/uk-musicians-protest-ai-copyright-law-dc80620c1c226a816048b87fb30309c4)NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2025)The Job Market Is Frozen (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/)The Hardest Career Shift No One Talks About (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEIwHGf1Ko)Intel breaking new organizational ground by formalizing the idea of a co-CEO that reports to a (third?) CEO to be named later. (https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings##document-5774-0000050863-25-000024-3)NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang Addresses The "DeepSeek Fiasco" For The First Time; Says Investors "Overreacted" & "Got It All Wrong" (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-addresses-the-deepseek-fiasco-for-the-first-time/)Uber and Waymo officially launch autonomous vehicle service in Austin; what to know (https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2025/03/04/uber-waymo-austin-atx-autonomous-ride-service-driverless-cars-launch/81210367007/)How to Get Hired When AI Does the Screening (https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-get-hired-when-ai-does-the-screening)How's that open source licensing coming along? 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