RCN #38 - Rotate Everything

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all. *NOTE* - Radio Cloud Native is switching to a bi-weekly release schedule (every other Wednesday), starting with today's episode. You can still find RCN in all existing locations or wherever you normally get your podcasts.

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On this week's episode, Eric has a co-pilot and it's everyone's favorite guest host John Jainschigg! Eric & John kick off the second episode of the new year with a host of recent security vulnerabilities that you all should be aware of. Leading stories include a look at the growth in VM deployments, the breach at CircleCI, a new wave of attacks on Kubernetes clusters, the latest in ChatGPT and of course a whole lot more!

Find the resources discussed in this week’s episode here: https://www.mirantis.com/blog/this-week-s-news-circleci-breach-kinsing-kubernetes-attacks-and-more

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Mirantis news update
• CircleCI breach
• Class pollution in Python
• Kinsing Kubernetes attacks
• Recursive container security
• Ruby gets WebAssembly compiler & other updates
• Meta rescinds full-time job offers in London
• OpenAI & ChatGPT news, updates & discussion
• Introducing the new & improved whack-a-doodle news quiz

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction & agenda
• 0:25 Programming Change - RCN is moving to bi-weekly episodes
• 0:45 Mirantis News: MOSK deployments increase tenfold, newest version released
• 1:36 CircleCI breach
• 2:46 Class pollution in Python
• 5:20 Kinsing Kubernetes attacks
• 7:48 Recursive container security
• 10:02 Ruby gets WebAssembly compiler, among other updates
• 11:08 Meta rescinds full-time job offers in London
• 12:56 Microsoft in talks to acquire 49% stake in OpenAI
• 15:33 Wolfram on ChatGPT
• 19:56 Introducing the new & improved whack-a-doodle news quiz
• 24:37 Outro