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Slack billions, cloud futures and Facebook lawsuits

The biggest moments from AWS re:Invent, Salesforce's massive Slackquisition and more.

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Slack's Platform plan: To be 'the central nervous system' of businesses everywhere.

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This week on the Source Code Podcast: Tom Krazit takes us through the biggest moments from AWS re:Invent — "the Super Bowl of cloud computing" — and shares his thoughts on Salesforce's massive Slackquisition (1:25). Then, Issie Lapowsky comes on to talk about Ajit Pai leaving the FCC, why the White House is mad at Facebook and how a complicated hacking lawsuit ended up in the Supreme Court (22:50).

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Why Google Cloud is providing security for AWS and Azure users too

“To just focus on Google Cloud, we wouldn't be serving our customers,” Google Cloud security chief Phil Venables told Protocol.

Google Cloud announced the newest addition to its menu of security offerings.

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In August, Google Cloud pledged to invest $10 billion over five years in cybersecurity — a target that looks like it will be easily achieved, thanks to the $5.4 billion deal to acquire Mandiant and reported $500 million acquisition of Siemplify in the first few months of 2022 alone.

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We take a closer look at points of interest and foot traffic patterns to demonstrate how location data can be leveraged to inform better site selecti­on strategies.

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The tools that make you pay for not getting stuff done

Some tools let you put your money on the line for productivity. Should you bite?

Commitment contracts are popular in a niche corner of the internet, and the tools have built up loyal followings of people who find the extra motivation effective.

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A Twitter deal 'cannot move forward' without proof about bots, Musk says

How many bots are there, really?

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Nobody will help Big Tech prevent online terrorism but itself

There’s no will in Congress or the C-suites of social media giants for a new approach, but smaller platforms would have room to step up — if they decided to.

Timothy Kujawski of Buffalo lights candles at a makeshift memorial as people gather at the scene of a mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Sunday, May 15, 2022 in Buffalo, NY. The fatal shooting of 10 people at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a young white gunman is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism, according to federal officials.

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The shooting in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people over the weekend has put the spotlight back on social media companies. Some of the attack was livestreamed, beginning on Amazon-owned Twitch, and the alleged shooter appears to have written about how his racist motivations arose from misinformation on smaller or fringe sites including 4chan.

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