RCN #44 - Kubernetes configuration woes, the ongoing adventures of LLMs & more!

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.

This week Eric is once more joined by everybody's favorite guest host: John Jainschigg. They dive into the recent Swarm-only mode vulnerability (identified by the teams at Mirantis), an Azure exploit that gave security researchers control of Bing, the resolution to the Docker "Free Teams" saga, emerging use cases for LLMs, and - as always - a whole lot more!

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

• Swarm overlay network security issue
• Fairwinds Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2023
• BingBang - Azure vulnerabilities give researchers control of Bing
• OpenAI's letter & Yudkowsky's rejoinder
• Threat analysis via ChatGPT
• Updates on Docker's "Free Teams"
• Twitter posts "the algorithm"
• Open source Curl project sponsored by Bloomberg
• Alberta Grad student deploys serverless Kubernetes

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro & Agenda
• 0:30 MCR team at Mirantis indetifies Docker vulerability in Swarm-mode
• 2:23 Fairwinds K8s Benchmark Report 2023
• 6:13 Researchers at Wiz find severe vulnerability in Azure Active Driectory
• 8:31 OpenAI's recent open letter
• 21:07 Beware of internet BS
• 22:10 Update on Docker's "Free Teams" Saga
• 23:49 Twitter posts "the algorithm"
• 24:44 Bloomberg announces sponsorship of open source Curl project
• 25:10 Cool Knative blog from Alberta Grad student walks you through serverless K8s with Knative
• 25:44 Outro