🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-31
Two hot takes on success, trust, and a strategic business partnership.
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Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.
⭐ + ⚠️ Success is demonstrated by being spammed. Trust is demonstrated by being exploited.
Techmeme: Researchers find 4.5M “stars” on GitHub repos they suspect are fake; in July, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring repos containing malware (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
💰 + ☁️ I’ve worked with dozens of folks at WWT and Softchoice in my career and this combination was more about when not if and there is no why beyond making good dollars and sense.
Techmeme: St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing the latter at ~CA$1.8B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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