Best Existentially Distributed Podcasts (2025)

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The Corporatisation of every aspect of Everyday Life

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*Rest in Peace John O’Brien*Market domination the common denominator*Root cause – why miss the obvious*What do the Israeli cabinet and the National party have in common?*Chuck ‘em out*Pain and loss, is it different in different parts of the world?*USA – 137. Depreciation in value of U.S. dollar*A fool is fool is a fool – Buffolini, no credibility…

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The Role of the State in 21st Century Australian Society

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*The carnage continues – the world watches on*Irony piled on irony – U.S.A. – Germany*The productivity round table sideshow*14 million dollars wouldn’t cover the cost of a sea side mansion*Disconnected from reality*No no Nanette – No negligence here – good case – no responsibility*Eureka Australia medals – nominations open*John Englart memorial*Pub…

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Era of H.A.I.G.

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*Torre Strait at the forefront of Climate Emergency struggle*Capture the Party – Destroy the Movement*Tell them their Dreaming – Piss off U.S.A*Health insurance funds – managed health care initiatives*Ho Hum – Another 100 Palestinians (mainly women & children) murdered by the Israeli Defence Forces today*Medicare isn’t there to guarantee corporate …

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Beyond the Pale

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*Wouldn’t it be nice*Playing into Israel’s hands*War Criminal nominates buffoon for Nobel Peace Prize – The Musical*New deal – Old deal U.S.A!! U.S.A!! U.S.A!!*Toxic Algae – Harbinger of things to come?*The Destruction of the Australian Trade Union movement opens the gate for total capitalist economic domination*National Aboriginal and Islander Day…

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Public Housing Everybody's Business

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*The carnage continues “Death Death to the I.D.F” – The hypocrisy continues.*U.S.A. U.S.A. – Executive given free rein by supreme court.*1st September 2027 – New Sovereign Nation State in the Pacific.*Whyalla Steel Works – Lost opportunity.*Tax reform? What tax reform, more lost opportunities.*Cleveland Dodd – Another casualty of West Australia’s U…

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AWS VP plans Amazon Bedrock Agents observability and more 23:48

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The leader of search, observability, and cloud operations at Amazon Web Services outlines her strategic perspective on monitoring AI agent systems such as Amazon Bedrock Agents. Ultimately, she envisions unified visibility, including security, across AI workflows, from silicon to application, both inside and outside AWS. Featuring: Nandini Ramani, …

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Pariah States Big Brother gives a Lending Hand

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Slapping each other on the backWhat role did Pine Gap play?Oh what a price we payPublic Housing everybodies businessWhats the point of a "steady as she goes" economic strategyAustralians lick his ass - Venetions kick his assGood hip Australia - steady as she goesBy Presenter Joe Toscano

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Dancing with AI: AI risks, rewards and the evolution of SREs 28:31

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Experienced IT practitioners offer their predictions for how AI will change observability, the role of the site reliability engineer and incident management within enterprise organizations, from best-case scenarios to pitfalls and risks. Come for the 40 combined years of IT ops expertise, stay for the "Highlander" references and football analogies.…

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Existential Threat

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Why 3CR?Israel - The Neighbour from HellPoductivity - Franking Credits the Elephant in the Room2050 # 2070 - N.W. Gas ExpansionF.off U.S.A. - They Did make him PresidentGaza, the carnage continuesPublic Housing, everybody's businessBy Presenter Joe Toscano

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Datadog AI researcher teaches time-series models new tricks 33:26

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Ameet Talwalkar joined observability vendor Datadog in February to lead a new AI research lab at the company. He is also an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the first projects from the lab was released to open source in May – Toto, a foundation model trained on real-world observability data. Talwalkar discusses how Toto cou…

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Class in 21st Century Australia

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Increasing the Revenue StreamThis program was pre-recorded and transmitted through the rest of Australia via the Community Radio Network while I was participating in the 3CR Anarchist World this Week (I'm dreaming $420,000) Radiothon in Community Radio 3CR.Normal programming next week.By Presenter Joe Toscano

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The good, the bad and the ugly of AI and observability 29:39

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Steve Koelpin is a seasoned engineer and award-winning data strategist who specializes in observability, logging, and data pipelines at high scale. In his experience, generative AI in observability tools can help reduce the time it takes to resolve IT incidents, but can also foment dependence on a 'black box' tool. There's also the matter of feedin…

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Artificial Intelligence

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*Outrage!! Outrage!! Outrage!!*Gaza - The atrocities continue - The world watchs on*Government Contracts - Highway to the treasury to unpalatable corporations*"Fighting to the Death" - Our very own Senator Canavagh*Murdochs media empire continues to cover the continent with verbal diarriea*Tear up your membership card of Australias most exclusive c…

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Enterprises adapt to generative AI operations 20:52

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Nancy Gohring is a senior research director at IDC, focused on big picture trends related to enterprise AI adoption, including business, organizational and technology architecture transformation in the context of AI and GenAI. In this wide-ranging interview, Gohring gives the big-picture view of the challenges and changes GenAI represents for enter…

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The Joys of Privatisation

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Tale of Two CitiesTaking a 53km Walk around GazaHelp Us Celebrate Mabo Day - 3rd JuneNational Disaster CentresThe Standard We Walk Past is the Standard We AcceptUnited Arab Emirates Backrolls Devils on Horseback in SudanSonic Healthcare - A Copybook Example of the Pitfalls of Equity FundsReconciliation Week - Tear Drops on Barren Ground…

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GenAI and business transformation 27:33

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Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Torsten Volk says he spends so much time playing with generative AI tools that "if I used fewer, I'd get a lot more done." But judiciously used -- and with plenty of human oversight -- LLMs and AI agents can be catalysts for fundamentally changing businesses, from application modernization to massive data processin…

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A Field of Rubble Littered with the Bodies of Woman and Children

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*The Israeli Armed Forces – Hamas’s best Recruitment Agency*Who Benefits Economically from the Net Zero Transmission Program?*Feeling Powerless?*Numero Uno – Australia – The Worlds most Incarcerated People*3CR Radiothon – Why Independent Broadcasting is still Important*When is a Separation not a Separation Liberals – National*Reconciliation Week 27…

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Get ready to meet your new digital coworkers 26:07

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One of the enterprise tech industry's most influential voices on all things AI, independent analyst Andy Thurai, says in a wide-ranging discussion that IT pros should prepare to work with AI agents in the very near future, despite unanswered questions about their orchestration and the reliability of their decision-making.…

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Treacle Down Economics Mark 15

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*Productivity Reform - A.I. - whats in it for me*Why didn't the Prime Minister lift a little Finger*The Complete Destruction of the Australian Trade Union Movment*3CR Radiothon - 11th. June 2025*Public Housing*and much much moreBy Presenter Joe Toscano

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Mitigating AI's unique risks 25:40

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"AI is not just another technology layer; it's a distinct stack with its own complexities and risks," according to Coralogix CEO Ariel Assaraf. In this episode, Assaraf details those unique issues and how his company plans to address them using its recent acquisition, Aporia.By Informa TechTarget

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The Culture Wars are Over. It's Time for a Radical Economic Agenda.

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Menzies Broad Church CrematedGaza - The Carnage Continues - Time for an International FlotillaThanks - Toscano 4 Flinders Campaign - At the Cutting Edge of ChangeMurdochs Media Diminishing RoleIncrease ProductivityCan the Private Sector deliver the Government Election Promises?Greenland - No Way U.S.A.…

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StarTree founder positions Apache Pinot for AI observability 24:40

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Kishore Gopalakrishna says that the observability market is ripe for disruption in the AI age, particularly at the storage and query layer. The former LinkedIn architect is now co-founder and CEO of StarTree, which offers a real time analytics platform based on Apache Pinot. The company has a preview version of its StarTree Cloud service for observ…

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Get Australia back on Track

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Hate Media - Your JokingDutton can't help himselfWhat about Gaza?Australian Super Funds IncreaseInvestmaent in the U.S.AToscano 4 FlindersMay Day - Written out of the History Booksand much moreBy Joe Toscano

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LLMs vs AIOps: have we seen this movie before? 17:32

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Gartner analyst Gregg Siegfried reflects on the previous generation of AIOps tools that never quite lived up to their "NoOps" promise, looks at how generative AI tools have already affected IT ops pros' day to day work, and predicts the ways AI agents are poised to even more dramatically alter the observability and IT automation landscape.…

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Empathy

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Empathy - A "dirty" wordGaza, Sudan, Ukraine - The carnage continuesANZAC day - a few truths abotu World War IAnother death at Vic Pol handsHarvard fights backElection 2025 - where's the passion?What's it for me electionBuffolinis little mate denies himToscano 4 Flinders Comic ReliefBy Joe Toscano

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The 'What-Ifs' of generative AI 22:18

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Mark Tomlinson is senior director of performance and observability for digital payments provider FreedomPay. He previously worked for PayPal and also served as Chief Performacologist, founder and host of the PerfBytes podcast from 2012 to 2023. He talks about how his company uses generative AI tools in its observability practices, imagines the futu…

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Federal Election - The Missing Ingredient In The Economic Pie - The Revenue Stream

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Toscano for Flinders CampaignHousing -- A Cruel Election hoaxWhat Do The Israeli Defence Forces And Sudan's Rapide Security Forces Have In Common?The Forgotten Third Of Australians In This Federal Election CampaignWhy Does The ABC Continue To Be A Mouthpiece For War Criminals?...and much more!By Dr. Joe Toscano

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Generative AI and the next AIOps frontier 23:42

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Alois Reitbauer is chief technology strategist, head of open source and the leader of research at observability vendor Dynatrace. He is a contributor to CNCF open source standards such as the Keptn event-driven orchestration project and OpenFeature for feature flag management. His Dynatrace bio also describes him as "a regular conference speaker, b…

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The war criminal and the buffoon - a match made in heaven

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Israel And The USA: Pariah States I Good War Criminals - Bad War Criminals: You Choose I Electoral Debate On SKY News: It's Not A Joke, It's Real I Toscano 4 Flinders: Not Sticking To The Script. Push The Share Button I Superannuation:Your Retirement Plans On A Knife Edge I The New Rebel - The Forgotten Majority: Hemmed In By Neo-Liberalism And Ide…

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OpenTelemetry in the age of AI 35:56

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The rise of generative and agentic AI is also OpenTelemetry's moment to shine – in an increasingly non-deterministic world, there's a lot to be said for a standard means of collecting telemetry data about system behavior. However, it can be difficult to get a consensus on everything, especially developers' preferences about instrumenting code. This…

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Seething anger

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Seething Anger: Dutton's Trump Card I Revolt Of The Cringing, Carping, Complaining Consumer I The Federal Election Should All Be About The Revenue Stream I Fighting Amongst Ourselves For The Crumbs Brushed Off The Corporate Table I Do You Want Service With That?By Joseph Toscano

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Envisioning observability in 3D with knowledge graphs 21:31

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What if you could see your application and infrastructure represented spatially instead of two-dimensional dashboard tabs, similar to atoms in a molecule or stars in the sky? According to Matt Young, founder and co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technical advisory group (TAG) on observability, this will soon be a reality than…

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Manna beneath the wattle

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The Manna Diggers I The Budget: Pieacemeal Respones. They Did What They Could I Nature - Goodwill - Artificial Intelligence I Fundamental Issues - Economic Inequality = Entrenched Economic Privilege I Gaza: The Carnage Accelerates. The World Sits On Its Hands I Bending Over Backwards To Support War Criminals I Turkey: Testbook Road To Dictatorship …

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Charity Majors on AI observability and a call to action for SREs 23:30

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Charity Majors pioneered the term 'observability' as co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, based on her experience building and managing distributed systems at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of the O'Reilly books Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. Her Honeycomb bio adds that she…

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Outrage!

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The Israeli Butchers Strike Again!! I Buffolini Has A Glass Jaw I Australia's Accidental Buffoon I It Doesn't Take A Genius I Toscano 4 Flinders Campaign: Snail On Steroids I Next Federal Election: More Of The Same? I Eureka Principle Of Reform/Revolution I Culture Reinforces Status Quo I West Papuan Activist's Surveillance And Intimidation By A Fo…

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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 3: Observability in the Age of AI 2:14

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Multifaceted connection points are emerging between observability and AI, from monitoring and improving AI models themselves to observing the ways the behavior of AI agents differs from traditional web apps. In short, AI-driven automation makes new kinds of observability workflows both necessary and possible. This season of IT Ops Query will featur…

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A teardrop in an ocean of indifference

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Gaza: 9 Days After I News Corporation: Feigned Outrage I Dutton's Red Herring: What A Joke I West Papua: Hasn't Gone Away I Buffolini's Treacle-Down Economics - Mark 387 - Liberal-National Party Policy I Australia's Gold Medal, Arse-Licking Performance - Gold! Gold! Gold! I Artists And Art Board's Under Seige In Australia I Tocano 4 Flinders Campai…

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A snowflake's chance in hell

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By Joseph Toscano

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Federal election 2025: why bother?

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By Joseph Toscano

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Thoughts of a radical independent - there's a federal election in the air

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The Coalition Doesn't Give A Shit - Immoral, Unethical, Unscrupulous I Does The Means Justify The Ends? I Increasing Inequality = Entrenched Privilege I Is The Australian Corporation Impartial? I The Corporate-Owned Media Disinformation Central: Don't Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story I Putting My Feet In The Waters…

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Pam the Bird

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A Litle Light Relief With Serious Consequences For The Artist I Balance Of Trade Deficit: Time To Impose Tariffs On The USA I Permanent War: Israel's Long Game I How About Passing Resolutions About Israeli War Criminals I The Fourth Estate Part Of The Problem, Not Part Of The Solution I When Is A Federal Election Not A Federal Election? I No Costin…

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Dutton transforms fairies at the bottom of the garden into neo-nazis

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My Fellow Australians - I Feel Sick In The Stomach I There's Still Votes In Kicking The Aboriginal Can I Bystanders In The Face Of Evil I Gaza: The Buffoon Takes A Leaf Out Of Stalin's Handbook I Pescutto Sacrified On Dutton's Altar I 'Deep Seek': The Dagger In The Heart Of 'American Exceptionalism' I Brushing The Crumbs Off The Corporate Table Is …

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Kissing the buffoon's ring

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America's Love Affair With A Buffoon I The Cost Of A Day Out At The Australian Tennis Open I $67,000 An Hour. Great Work If You Can Get It I Ultra-Processed Foods: Satisfy Manufacturer's Needs I Majority Rules, Or Does It? I Notice The Difference - How The Australian Media Portrays The Gaza Carnage I The 21st-Century: Soap Opera Central I The Feder…

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'Get Australia back on track' - Dutton for PM

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Moral Equivalent - Mass Murder Graffiti I Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration - Join Us I The Algorithm Of Hate: Anything For A Buck I Flinders Federal Electorate: Be In To It. Raise An Altrenative. Join Us Wednesday 29th January 2025 I Nature Doesn't Care What Trump, Musk, You Or I Think Or Believe…

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Learning to live with the unacceptable

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Death Of An Australian Icon: Michael Leunig I Hatred Fuels Forthcoming Federal Election I Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener Commemoration - Monday 20th January I Self-Interest Curdles Collective Action I Making The Ridiculous Seem Reasonable I Billionaire Sex Offender And Fraudster President Of The USA I Nothing Is Too Complex Or Complicated To Un…

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Christmas special

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By Joseph Toscano

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2024 in review and 2025 predictions with Dan Lorenc 21:05

8M ago21:05

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Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to discuss the year in open source and security. Topics range from software supply chain management, hardening container images and SBOMs in limbo to open product companies and business models, including his own company's shift in focus this year. Plus: a loo…

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Parliamentary legislation by media

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It's Come To This: Take A Bow I Everything's Up For Discussion Except The Elephant In The Room I War Criminals Prosper - The Carnage In Gaza Continues I Autonomous Region In North-East Syria Braces For Turkish Invasion I Tim Pallas Tip Toes Through The Tulips I Allan- Led Victorian State Government Outdoes The Victorian Liberal Opposition I So You …

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The arc of SecOps is long, but bends toward improvement 24:23

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S&P Global Market Intelligence principal research analyst Daniel Kennedy discusses what the results of his Voice of the Enterprise research project dating back to 2015 reveal about the notion of a cybersecurity skills shortage; the effects of the Crowdstrike outage on a long-running debate about unified cybersecurity platforms vs best-of-breed vend…

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101 shades of evil

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Every Trade Union In This Country On Notice: CFMEU Fiasco I The Narrative: It Grows And Grows - Anti-Israeli Sentiment Equals Anti-Semitism I Assad: Israel's Major Ally Flees To Russia I The Autonomous Zone In North And East Syria Faces Forceful Absorption Into The 'New Syria' I There's A Federal Election In The Air. The Murdoch Media And Their Dig…