Buffer Overflow 38: This is not my Beautiful Death Machine

Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: This is not my Beautiful Death Machine
Episode 38
Bitcoin Bubbles, KubeCon 2017, and ML Jumping the Shark
Hosts
Ned Bellavance, Director of Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Architect for Infrastructure Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Main Story
Bitcoin Bubbles

• So Bitcoin is definitely in a bubble
• The soaring energy consumption that the Bitcoin network requires to operate
• Bitcoin mining efforts at an annual rate of 32 TW/h
• cough cough Segwit

Medium Stories
KubeCon Happened Last Week

• PODCTL
• CoreOS summary of day 1
• Calico on Windows  Server 1709
• Virtual Kubelet

Machine learning capabilities continues to grow at impressive rates

• IBM Research announced massively improved machine-learning
• NVIDIA has released  a new tensor-core GPU

Lightning Round

• Anhueser-Bush places order for 40 Tesla Semi Trucks
• Amazon Key has about as much security as the cameras on the bus from Speed
• Toyota releases new and improved humanoid robot
• Intel admits ME solution hugely exploitable, still probably thinks it’s a fiiiiiine idea
• PullRequest Gets $2.3M in Seed Round Funding
• S3 bucket discovery just got easier

Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B