Podcasts about Cloud

*** Mein neues Buch „Alles wird gut – aber nicht von alleine" erscheint am kommenden Dienstag und kann jetzt schon vorbestellt werden. Darin teile ich meine wichtigsten Erkenntnisse rund um ein langes, gesundes und selbstbestimmtes Leben. Hier kannst du es vorbestellen***    In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Dr. Wieland Holfelder, dem Leiter des Google-Entwicklungszentrums in München mit rund 1.800 Mitarbeitenden und Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats am TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar. Ich wollte endlich Orientierung im Dschungel der digitalen Gesundheitsangebote finden, und genau darum geht es hier: Was kann künstliche Intelligenz heute schon zuverlässig und seriös für meine Gesundheit leisten? Wir sprechen über die neue Google Health App, die meine Wearables von Whoop über Oura bis zur Waage in einem Cockpit zusammenführt, über KI in der Diagnostik von Hirntumoren, über die elektronische Patientenakte und die souveräne Cloud, in der meine sensiblen Daten in Deutschland bleiben. Dr. Holfelder erklärt, wie ich mit dem RPCK-Prinzip bessere Prompts schreibe, warum Gemini Notebook für Arztbriefe ein echter Gamechanger ist und wie AlphaFold die Medikamentenforschung auf ein neues Niveau hebt.  In dieser Folge sprechen wir u.a. über folgende Themen:  Was kann künstliche Intelligenz heute schon zuverlässig und seriös für meine Gesundheit leisten? Wie führt die Google Health App die Daten all meiner Wearables in einem einzigen Cockpit zusammen? Warum wird bei der Suche nach medizinischen Begriffen keine Werbung angezeigt und werden keine Daten verkauft? Wie hilft KI den Radiologen dabei, Hirntumore früher und präziser zu erkennen? Was steckt hinter dem offenen Modell MedGemma und dem Single Cell Foundation Model? Weshalb bleiben meine Gesundheitsdaten in der souveränen Cloud garantiert in Deutschland? Was ändert die elektronische Patientenakte für uns im Alltag und beim Arztbesuch wirklich? Wie entlastet KI die überlasteten Arztpraxen bei Dokumentation und Bürokratie? Warum ist Gemini Notebook gerade für schwer verständliche Arztbriefe ein Gamechanger? Wie schreibe ich mit dem RPCK-Prinzip Prompts, die weniger Halluzinationen liefern? Welche Daten sollte ich niemals in normale Chatbots hochladen? Wie hat AlphaFold mit über 200 Millionen Proteinstrukturen die Medikamentenforschung revolutioniert?  Ein Tipp, den ich mir gemerkt habe: Dr. Holfelder nennt im Gespräch das englische RPCK-Prinzip für bessere KI-Antworten. Auf Deutsch lautet die Merkformel RPKF, also Rolle, Problem, Konzept und Format. Wer seine Frage nach diesem Muster aufbaut, bekommt deutlich präzisere und seriösere Antworten.  Weitere Informationen zu Dr. Wieland Holfelder findest du hier: - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/holfelder- https://informatik2021.gi.de/beirat/detailseite/wieland-holfelder Du interessierst dich für Gesunde Langlebigkeit (Longevity) und möchtest ein Leben lang gesund und fit bleiben, dann folge mir auch auf den sozialen Kanälen bei Instagram, TikTok, Facebook oder YouTube.  https://www.instagram.com/nina.ruge.official https://www.tiktok.com/@nina.ruge.official https://www.facebook.com/NinaRugeOffiziell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOe2d1hLARB60z2hg039l9g  Disclaimer: Ich bin keine Ärztin und meine Inhalte ersetzen keine medizinische Beratung. Bei gesundheitlichen Fragen wende dich bitte an deinen Arzt/deine Ärztin.  STY-295 

Timothy heads to the Witch Cloud bridges in Gettysburg to ask strangers for paranormal stories. The bridges do not disappoint–a variety of ghostly stories are accompanied by anomalous bangs on the bridge, figures seen in the woods, an overheard Estes session with some interesting comments, and more. On the drive home, something is seen in a cornfield. Order Timothy's new book, The Keystone Hagstone: Faeries and Other Mysterious Entities of Pennsylvania here: https://lostgrave.etsy.com/listing/4509315790 If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevision Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cloud computing providers, chip makers, server makers, and even construction companies like Caterpillar all boasted stellar quarterly earnings, sending the message that demand for the development and upkeep of AI is still surging. However, the question remains whether the tech giants pouring cash into data centers will see a return on these enormous investments. But first: Tomorrow we get July's retail reports, and analysts predict that they'll show they same thing we've been seeing for months: Even though consumers are stressed, they're still spending. Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.

Cloud computing providers, chip makers, server makers, and even construction companies like Caterpillar all boasted stellar quarterly earnings, sending the message that demand for the development and upkeep of AI is still surging. However, the question remains whether the tech giants pouring cash into data centers will see a return on these enormous investments. But first: Tomorrow we get July's retail reports, and analysts predict that they'll show they same thing we've been seeing for months: Even though consumers are stressed, they're still spending. Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt for machine operators rather than humans. Render is a cloud platform designed for application deployment, by handling scaling, self-healing, and security to reduce operations work. Render has been adapting to the AI era by building tools that let agents deploy and debug applications directly, with added guardrails and security. Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. In this episode, Anurag joins Sean Falconer to discuss why so many teams end up rebuilding the same infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, what changes when AI agents become first-class users of infrastructure and the guardrails that shift demands, and why the economics of AI are pushing developers toward higher-level platforms that trade fine-grained control for speed and safety.Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The United States Air Force maintains the airborne leg of America's nuclear triad with the B-2, and the land-based leg with Minuteman. But it also connects the triad with an elaborate and heavily secured command and control network. Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ambassador Eric Edelman has a report out on that topic, and we'll cover everything nuclear with him. And, of course, we have the week's top headlines in airpower. Powered by GE Aerospace!

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt for machine operators rather than humans. Render is a cloud platform designed for application deployment, by handling scaling, self-healing, and security to reduce operations work. Render has been adapting to the AI era by building tools that let agents deploy and debug applications directly, with added guardrails and security. Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. In this episode, Anurag joins Sean Falconer to discuss why so many teams end up rebuilding the same infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, what changes when AI agents become first-class users of infrastructure and the guardrails that shift demands, and why the economics of AI are pushing developers toward higher-level platforms that trade fine-grained control for speed and safety.Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt for machine operators rather than humans. Render is a cloud platform designed for application deployment, by handling scaling, self-healing, and security to reduce operations work. Render has been adapting to the AI era by building tools that let agents deploy and debug applications directly, with added guardrails and security. Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. In this episode, Anurag joins Sean Falconer to discuss why so many teams end up rebuilding the same infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, what changes when AI agents become first-class users of infrastructure and the guardrails that shift demands, and why the economics of AI are pushing developers toward higher-level platforms that trade fine-grained control for speed and safety.Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt for machine operators rather than humans. Render is a cloud platform designed for application deployment, by handling scaling, self-healing, and security to reduce operations work. Render has been adapting to the AI era by building tools that let agents deploy and debug applications directly, with added guardrails and security. Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. In this episode, Anurag joins Sean Falconer to discuss why so many teams end up rebuilding the same infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, what changes when AI agents become first-class users of infrastructure and the guardrails that shift demands, and why the economics of AI are pushing developers toward higher-level platforms that trade fine-grained control for speed and safety.Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review. Because that code is not fully trusted, it increasingly runs in isolated, sandboxed environments. Meanwhile, AI agents are starting to operate infrastructure directly, by spinning services up and tearing them down on their own. Together these shifts raise the question of whether the cloud needs to be rebuilt for machine operators rather than humans. Render is a cloud platform designed for application deployment, by handling scaling, self-healing, and security to reduce operations work. Render has been adapting to the AI era by building tools that let agents deploy and debug applications directly, with added guardrails and security. Anurag Goel is the founder and CEO of Render. In this episode, Anurag joins Sean Falconer to discuss why so many teams end up rebuilding the same infrastructure on top of Kubernetes, what changes when AI agents become first-class users of infrastructure and the guardrails that shift demands, and why the economics of AI are pushing developers toward higher-level platforms that trade fine-grained control for speed and safety.Sponsorship inquiries:sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

A Inteligência Artificial está mudando rapidamente — e, por trás dos novos modelos e ferramentas, existe uma disputa cada vez maior por tecnologia, infraestrutura, dados e mercado.No sexto episódio do Cloud.IA, falamos sobre os principais movimentos do universo da Inteligência Artificial, passando por modelos de IA, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, segurança, ataques a agentes, copyright, investimentos e infraestrutura.Também entram na conversa temas como modelos open source, distillation, soberania digital, desenvolvimento de IA no Brasil, janela de contexto e os impactos que essa evolução pode trazer para empresas e para o mercado de tecnologia.Dê o play e acompanhe mais um episódio do Cloud.IA!#CloudIA #InteligenciaArtificial #AWS #AmazonBedrock #Tecnologia

ממשל ארגוני הוא דבר "חי" שדורש עדכון חדשות לבקרים במיוחד כיום שנכנסה האינטליגנציה המלאכותית לסביבות העסקיות והתפעוליות. ממשל ארגוני דורש הבנה עמוקה בתהליכים, אנשים והטכנולוגיות בארגון, עברו הימים שמנכ"ל ודריקטוריון מכירים ומבינים "בערך", האחריות האישית של ההנהלה הבכירה והדרקטוריון הולכת וגדלה וניתן לראות זאת בברור בחוק הסיבר שעבר בקריאה ראשונה בכנסת. כול זה הופך את התפקיד של הסיסו לצומת מרכזית ודורש ידע וכלים שלא נדרשו בעבר. נחשון פינקו מארח את שירלי סידי מנהלת חטיבת הייעוץ לסייבר וגי.אר.סי באשנב (לשעבר אמן סיבר וענן) מקבוצת אמן. המשמעות של גי.אר.סי לארגון מה תחומי הידע שהסיסו נדרש כיום להחזיק איך מתמודדים ארגונית עם האינטליגנציה המלאכותית ועוד   Organizational governance is a “living discipline” that requires constant updates, especially today as AI enters business and operational environments.   Effective governance demands a deep understanding of processes, people, and technologies within the organization. The days when CEOs and boards had only a “rough” understanding are over — senior leadership and boards now carry growing personal responsibility, clearly reflected in the new Cyber Law that passed its first reading in the Knesset.   All of this turns the CISO role into a central crossroads, requiring new skills and knowledge, never needed before.   Nachshon Pincu hosts Shirly Sidi, Director of the Cyber Consulting and GRC Division at Eshnav (formerly Aman Cyber & Cloud) of the Aman Group. The significance of GRC for the organization The knowledge domains modern CISOs must master How organizations should address the rise of AI And more ועוד

Wil Santiago, Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber, joins In The Channel to discuss the findings of the company’s 2026 Annual Threat Report – research grounded in thousands of real incidents investigated by Blackpoint’s security operations centre, not surveys. The headline finding: attackers are no longer trying to break in. They’re logging in. Using stolen credentials and commodity remote management tools, threat actors are walking through the front door, hiding in plain sight, and operating with system-level privileges – sometimes for days before anyone notices. Santiago walks through the key trends the SOC identified across 2025: ClickFix and fake CAPTCHA campaigns accounted for more than half of all identifiable incidents, with attackers abusing trusted infrastructure including Azure Blob storage and Cloudflare to deliver payloads. RMM abuse showed up in roughly 30 per cent of triaged incidents – threat actors installing their own version of the same tools MSPs use legitimately, then living off the land with god-mode access. And Adversary-in-the-Middle attacks are now routinely hijacking authenticated sessions even when MFA is in place, by abusing OAuth token handling. The conversation also covers Blackpoint’s detection philosophy: behavioral context over malware signatures. Understanding what normal looks like in an environment – who uses what tool, at what time, from where – is what allows the SOC to catch attackers before they act. It’s a philosophy that is producing results: Blackpoint disrupted 56 per cent of incidents before a payload was ever deployed. Santiago’s closing recommendation for MSPs is straightforward: start with an RMM audit. Know every remote management tool deployed across every endpoint and server you manage. You cannot protect what you don’t know exists. The 2026 Annual Threat Report is available for download on the Blackpoint Cyber website. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca and your host for the show. Wil Santiago is Chief Security and Trust Officer at Blackpoint Cyber, an MDR provider whose SOC monitors and responds to threats in real time across a large base of MSPs and their clients. And unlike a lot of threat research that’s survey-based or derived from external reporting, what Blackpoint publishes comes from live incident data, thousands of actual threat responses they’ve worked through in the SOC. Their 2026 annual threat report has a thesis that cuts right through it. Attackers are no longer trying to break in, they’re logging in, using stolen credentials and legitimate IT tools, the same RMMs, the same cloud platforms that MSPs rely on every day, to walk through the front door, hide in plain sight, and work their way towards payday. It’s a theme we’ve been tracking at ChannelBuzz.ca. If you caught our conversation with Tony Anscombe from ESET, that one dug into the mechanics of how MSP tools are being weaponized against the very clients they’re supposed to protect. This conversation is the data layer behind that story, and the detection philosophy that Wil and the Blackpoint team have built to counter it. Their SOC is disrupting 56% of incidents before a payload even deploys. We talk about how. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Wil Santiago. Wil, thanks for taking the time, I appreciate it. Wil Santiago: Thank you, Robert. Robert Dutt: For people who know Blackpoint primarily as an MDR provider, but maybe haven’t dug into the research side, can you give us a quick sense of what your SOC is actually seeing day to day? When you say this report is based on thousands of real incidents, what does that mean in practical terms, in terms of how you gathered this data? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question, Robert. It really starts at the core of what we focus on at Blackpoint Cyber. In 2025, we focused a lot of our detection efforts in the cloud endpoints, but what we realized is that at the core, at that identity layer, that’s the most important thing. But what we’re protecting at Blackpoint is the identity. What we observed in 2025 is this interesting shift where, yes, there’s vulnerabilities, there will continue to be vulnerabilities. However, threat actors don’t necessarily need to weaponize those vulnerabilities to gain access into an environment. They’re not really targeting customers or companies with any specific new zero-day technology or exploits that are novel. They’re just logging in using stolen passwords. We’re still at that pivotal point, but we’re still talking about the same things we’ve been talking about, password reuse, making sure you’re protecting yourself from phishing emails, so on and so forth. But the reality is that threat actors are getting in. They’re stealing credentials and they’re using legitimate tools to just log in, walking through the front door. Robert Dutt: Yeah, the headline from the report was very catchy with the attackers are no longer trying to break in. They’re just logging in, as you say. And that framing echoes what we’ve seen in other reports elsewhere. People are calling 2025 the year of the abuse of trust in terms of security trends, but your numbers are operational and not survey-based. I’m curious what trusted compromise looks like from where you sit. Is there really a shift away from what you were seeing a couple of years ago or three years ago, or has this always been the playbook and we’re only now measuring it properly? Wil Santiago: Yeah, so if I compare back to, let’s say, 2022, I think we at Blackpoint would still see a trend, the threat actors gaining access into an environment, usually using some type of exploit at that time. You can point to a number of Microsoft Exchange exploits that happened during that time. The Hafnium group was doing a lot of Exchange exploits. The reality is there came a certain time where we were detecting Cobalt Strike, a malware commodity tool, every single day in Blackpoint Cyber’s SOC. And then eventually it became once a week, and then it became once a month. So then we started to think, well, what’s happening with the shift of tactics with the threat actors? And what we found is instead of installing Cobalt Strike, they started to install legitimate IT tools. And that’s the trust component. When they’re installing tools that you use internally, they now can abuse those tools the same way that you use those legitimately. And so we have these threat actors that not only are abusing legitimate tools, but like I said, they’re abusing legitimate identities. So when you have what I call the keys to the kingdom, the passwords, I am you. I am now Robert, for all intents and purposes for this sort of webinar. I think the interesting part that we’ve seen at Blackpoint is that threat actors have really, really focused on leave-behinds. And those leave-behinds are commodity remote management tools. Why do they do that? Because EDRs don’t know how to detect them as malicious, right? These are legitimate IT tools that are being used to service MSPs and their customers. And a threat actor just installs their version of the same exact tool that you’re using legitimately. Right? And so the trust component is you go to review your assets and you see ScreenConnect installed in your environments because you use ScreenConnect, right? But then when you start taking a closer look, you start to realize, wait a second, there’s four different ScreenConnect IDs on this one machine. Now we have a more of a problem, right? And so the attack is a little bit of an invisible signature detection because it’s an authorized tool, right? And so we really have to get to this layer of identifying threat actor activity with behavior context. If you’re an AnyDesk shop, then why do you have TeamViewer installed on your file server that’s publicly facing, right? Let’s start to ask those questions and dig into that a little bit. Robert Dutt: Your SOC found that fake CAPTCHA and ClickFix campaigns accounted for, I think it was 50-odd percent of identifiable incidents. That’s a majority of attacks being driven by a technique that essentially requires the victim to step on the link to execute it themselves. Why is that scaling so fast right now? And especially for an MSP who tends to think, you know, my technicians are too smart to do that. What’s kind of the honest answer for what they need to be looking for and protecting against? Wil Santiago: Yeah. And, you know, ClickFix is such an easy attack when you really get into the root of what it does. But it starts with social engineering. You’re enticing someone, again, just like with phishing, to visit something that you’re going to tell them to do an action. And most of the time, they’re going to do that action. Now, why this is so effective is we’re seeing techniques that really enable the threat actor to deliver the payload. And how do they do that? Search engine optimization, right? These SEO links at the top, when you go look for an OBS installer, because you need your camera to look well, or you get a Google sponsor result. Threat actors are just buying those sponsored results and delivering their payloads on there. You click on it thinking you’re going to download OBS, and then it tells you, hey, wait a second, you have to make sure that you are human. Verify that we’re used to verifying we’re humans to download something. So we go and we click it. But then it says, hey, open up your Windows Run command and maybe run this command on us, on your computer for us. And what happens? Threat actors go and they put the commands on a website. They have this watering hole spread out all throughout infrastructure that’s globally distributed. Google, Microsoft, all these sort of cloud infrastructure hosting providers that exist. Threat actors use those. So when you’re looking at your firewall logs and you’re seeing your internal team going to Microsoft.com, hey, it’s Microsoft, right? But the reality is, it’s likely an Azure Blob site that’s just being hosted on Microsoft, that is a threat actor that’s actually hosting it. And so they’re abusing that trust function to say, hey, you need this OBS installer. You Googled it. I didn’t tell you to go Google that. You were the one that did that. And then they found my link, which I posted a malicious payload there. And so again, that abuse factor is all the things we’ve taught our employees, our customers, our MSPs to do, right? Go to Google, make sure you identify the link. Make sure you look for Microsoft. Make sure you see the end of a URL or domain. Validate that. Well, the adversary goes, okay, they want to play that game. I’m just going to host this on Cloudflare. And now we’re back to this gate where now someone clicks on something. Well, what’s this Cloudflare? That’s a legitimate service. I know that to be true, right? It’s very true. The reality is the infrastructure is very, very easy to set up. And it doesn’t require a lot of action. It just requires someone to take a command and put it on their machine. And all the background work happens in the background, right? And so beyond that, we used to see a lot of threat actors use this sort of technique to download malware onto machines. But again, going back to what I mentioned about RMMs, now they’re just downloading an RMM. And that just looks like a legitimate process to an EDR. Robert Dutt: Right. So for an MSP, especially when training or making sure their technicians are aware, is it just as simple as making sure they’re aware of this threat landscape and this wrinkle in it? Or is there something more that’s sort of the advice there on how to protect yourself as best you can? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question. And really, you know, I would say any MSP watching this show, starting today or tomorrow, the first thing that I always tell people, audit your RMM inventory. Asset inventory is the number one thing that customers should be doing, right? You cannot protect what you don’t know exists. And so every single remote management tool that’s deployed across every endpoint you manage, every server you manage, you need to audit those, right? Like you’re giving direct access to a system. And most of the time, those RMMs run in the system context, which means they have the permissions and privileges of any admin, right? And now you have this adversary that has a foothold. They can deploy tools using admin privileges and permissions. So you have to audit your RMM inventory, right? Making sure that you understand what’s happening across those production servers. And forcing MFA, that’s a big one. We see a lot of incidents that source from RMM abuse because they log into the MSP’s RMM console, the cloud-based consoles. Some of those don’t have MFA involved. Again, keys to the kingdom, MFA everywhere, that needs to be a reality. Then we need to start moving into what I call more resilient engineering, right? Conditional access policies, preventing individuals from logging in from untrusted sources, locations, right? There’s ways that you can lock down access to an RMM and assume a threat actor is able to steal credentials because they maybe installed an info stealer on a user’s machine, stole their browser credentials. They reuse the same credentials for Gmail that they do for their corporate environment. Well, now a threat actor just perusing finds their credentials and says, “Oh, I’ve got IT Glue permissions now. I’m going to go log into this and restore all these configs in IT Glue or whatever tools out there.” Well, now the threat actor has access to that. And so that’s how they’re pivoting across these environments. They’re going from cloud to on-prem, on-prem to cloud. One of the things that we caught at Blackpoint recently, and this was a really cool response, but the threat actor compromised the cloud environment first. They then took that cloud access, deployed an RMM using Intune to the devices, and then they used that on-prem access to go to those machines and do their own work directly from that console. I called it overkill. They didn’t have to do that because they had the cloud environment. But because they did that, that sort of prompted this investigation for this MSP to approach us and say, “Hey, we believe something is happening. We investigated and quickly saw the Intune process was the responsible process for deploying some of this malware. So we told them, “Hey, deploy our cloud response suite. We want to understand what’s happening in your cloud.” And sure enough, seven global admins were compromised. So again, limiting scope is important here, right? Least privilege. Why do we have so many people with admin privileges and permissions? I think there’s 192 admin roles or something like that in Microsoft, but we default to just, you get global admin, you get all the permissions. And so now an adversary compromises a Microsoft 365 tenant. Well, now they have the permissions of a global admin. And unfortunately for us, when we shifted from the on-prem strategy to the cloud strategy, we just started pushing everything in the cloud and we say, “Oh, it’s fine. It’s in SharePoint.” We didn’t realize though that that’s only being protected by a password and an MFA token, both of which can be stolen, right? So the protection is not really there. That’s why we have to move to that resilient engineering. And so it’s moving from that reactive alerting to that posture alerting, right? Why is someone trying to log in from France? We have nobody in France. Robert Dutt: So your report showed almost a third of triaged incidents involved RMM abuse. And that’s something, that kind of trend line is something that we’ve seen in other reports. You know, one of your peers is talking about a 200 plus percent spike in abuse of RMM in attacks. I’m curious, especially since you’re sitting in the SOC there, what does RMM based intrusion actually look like in the SOC here? You know, I’m guessing curious, is there a moment where it’s genuinely hard to tell, you know, is this actually a tech doing a routine task or is this an attacker? And if so, what kind of breaks the tie and causes you to go, “No, no, that’s not right.” Wil Santiago: Yeah. Well, there’s kind of two ways to look at it, right? We have threat actors that are compromising MSP RMM tools. These are tools that are owned, managed by the MSP. They’re usually protected with some cloud login, whether they self-host it or they have the vendor host it for them. Threat actors can log into those systems with a password and a username, right? So we see a lot of brute forcing of those systems, especially if they’re self-hosted systems, they usually don’t have the protections of the vendors. They don’t put a WAF in front of them. And so they’ll try to brute force them and just log in, right? Those are few and far between, to be quite honest. We don’t see those as often, but what we do see often is, again, they gain access into an environment, usually by compromising a VPN. Now they’re on the network. Now they can move throughout that network as they’re on the VPN, and they’ll usually find a foothold. And if they have a credential like a local admin, they’ll take that one foothold and then they’ll distribute their RMM across that entire fleet of the network with one command from that foothold. So for us, when we’re looking at RMM deployments, MSPs deploy RMMs in a certain manner and format. They’re not deploying an RMM at two o’clock in the morning on a Saturday when they’re a US-based company. And oh, by the way, they just logged in from a Chinese-based IP, right? So again, there’s indicators that are very clear cut of like, okay, this deployment of RMM tools absolutely malicious. Most of those cases come to the case of, you know, we have application control within Blackpoint that allows us to alert when someone is installing a new application that’s unauthorized. And so what we tell our MSPs to do is, hey, set up your policies that if you’re a Ninja RMM shop, you cannot have any other installations of any other RMM. ScreenConnect is not going to be involved. And so that allows us and affords us the ability to do is, when we get that alert that says someone’s attempting to install a ScreenConnect, we can go back and sort of recreate the path of how do they get here. And what that allows us to really get into is, again, that response, right? And that response is preventing the installation of the RMM, eradicating the threat actor by isolating the machine, making sure you remove their footholds, getting those SSL VPNs off of the public facing internet, and having that exposure management reduced, right? And so when we look at RMM abuse in practice, once they get that RMM installed, again, they’re living off the land with system privileges. System privileges is something that most people tend to understand, but it’s just keys to the kingdom. You are God mode at that point. You can do whatever you feel to deploy and ultimately spread your access with that level of access, right? And so they’ll use it for backdoors. And oftentimes, they may compromise the environment and say, “You know what? I’m busy.” We’ve actually seen this over the holidays where they go take their breaks. Just like everyone else does. It’s Christmas. I’ve done a lot of hacking. So they leave their leave-behind tools and they come back. That’s their access factor. Again, it’s one of those things where they’re hiding in plain sight. Robert Dutt: You touched on MFA a little while ago and the report flagged the use of adversary-in-the-middle attacks. AiTM attacks that let threat actors hijack authenticated sessions, even when the MFA is there. So I guess what’s the message to MSPs who are thinking, “All right, if we just get MFA everywhere, we’re good, we’re covered.” Wil Santiago: Token protection, right? MFA is great. You have to have it. But understand that there’s flaws in the way that MFA communicates to servers. And so the whole way that an adversary-in-the-middle attack works is by abusing OAuth. And OAuth is a standard protocol of just making sure that we understand how systems should communicate for authentication. And what’s really nice about that is we can take that offensive research and then make defensive practices towards that. And so token protection is really huge there. There are a lot of built-in protections in Microsoft that allow you to invalidate session tokens after a certain period of time. Every hour you could refresh these tokens. You now, again, when you get to this resilient engineering, you start to push the adversary to be a little bit more aggressive. And that’s your detection mechanism. When you allow an adversary to move unfettered throughout a network, they’re going to move unfettered throughout a network. But the moment that you give them that sort of, “Eh, stop here. Let me see your ID.” Then they start to get a little uneasy. They’re like, “Wait a second. I don’t know how to move anymore.” And so specifically in MFA, when we talk about session hijacking and session tokens, the token protection aspect is really important because that’s a conditional access policy that you can implement. And most people do not implement those conditional access policies. Now, there’s a slew of them that work in conjunction with each other. But the idea here is your tokens will likely be compromised at some point. If you are duped into clicking one of these phishing links, it’s very easy to steal a session token. So we have to move past that. Now that we know that’s going to happen, how do we prevent the adversary from actually using those session tokens successfully? And that’s where invalidating the sessions comes in, having the session protection, conditional access policies, protected devices, things of that sort. That prevents them from being able to use those session tokens. Robert Dutt: A stat that I keep looking at in the report was that you guys managed to disrupt in the SOC 55, 56 percent of incidents before a payload was deployed. It’s a real number. That’s pretty significant. I guess what is disrupted before the payload hits mean operationally? And what does it tell us about where the detection opportunity actually lives? Because it sounds like the window isn’t did malware execute? It’s something a lot earlier. Wil Santiago: That’s exactly right. When we look at the cyber kill chain, we want to start pushing our adversaries as far left of boom as possible. Right. And so when you hear about this whole right of boom concept, basically, you’ve met your match. And now boom, you’ve now been impacted. Right. And so there’s a lot of indicators of compromise that we can start to hone in on. That will give us an understanding of whether this is legitimate or illegitimate. Right before an adversary even types the command. And again, that’s the context. And the context is what the SOC is really understanding of a customer. Where do they operate? What are their hours of operation? Where are they globally distributed? What’s the infrastructure they use? What are the tools they use? How did they use those tools? Did they deploy tools every Thursday at 2 p.m.? So there’s this constant checklist that they’re doing every single day to understand this. And so when we talk about living off the land, threat actors are trying to execute commands. Right. They’re just trying to sit there. We’re typing on a keyboard command line. Hey, I’m not going to introduce any new factors to my intrusion. I’m just going to live off the land. Ultimately, they want to deploy a payload at the end of all of that. But if they deploy a payload too early in their kill chain, they risk getting caught. Right. And so what they’ll do is they’ll stage everything. They’ll compromise an endpoint. They’ll add a persistent backdoor user. They’ll deploy some small scripts to enumerate the network. Just to get an understanding of what’s happening. But they’ll usually stage those in like a C:UsersMusic folder. And that’s their staging environment. So you can catch them. And we’ve caught at Blackpoint a number of threat actors where their toolkits are still on the machine because we caught them so early left of boom that legitimately all they did was log into a machine, try to mount a share, but it failed. And then that failed share mount is like, wait a second. They have never tried to mount a share on this file server ever. And then you call the MSP and they’re like, yeah, Monday through Friday, our hours are from eight to three and it’s seven p.m. at Thursday. Right. Well, now the context of the intrusion starts to become a little bit more apparent. And so we have to do this very quickly. The reality is for us, behavioral context, it matters more than ever. That is the true bread and butter for stopping threat adversaries is understanding the behaviors in the context of which they employ to compromise the network or compromise an endpoint. And so we focus a lot of our threat intelligence and our adversarial intrusion analysis based off of what hack or tradecraft is. We always say this internally, you cannot protect what you don’t know how to hack. So we spend a lot of our time recreating these attacks, understanding where do we catch them? And one of the things that we found is in those early development cycles of understanding the behaviors of an adversary, we found key indicators of like, wait, that is a very high fidelity indicator that before an adversary even gets on a keyboard, we’ve already caught them. They don’t know that yet. Right. And so that’s a little bit of our secret sauce there. But the reality is that secret sauce was created because we thought like threat actors and we sort of recreated what they did in controlled environments and testing environments to then to make sure the detection and the efficacy of what they’re doing is caught within our product. Robert Dutt: So this is a bit of a sidebar, but it was a new term, at least to me. You flagged Etherhiding in the report, attackers embedding malicious logic and blockchain smart contracts to manage compromised sites. Can you walk me through that real quick? And how real is this in terms of how widely it’s being deployed today? And why does it matter for detection purposes? Wil Santiago: It’s a newer term. You know, I would like to say that we have way too many terms in security and security, you know, sort of like we’re trying to be cool. The reality is this is a technique that leverages transactions on a public blockchain to basically retrieve malicious payloads. Right. And so this is another sort of trend that an adversary is using where they’re just retrieving a payload from something that is trusted. In this case, cryptocurrency. A lot of people trust cryptocurrency. A lot of people trust public blockchains. And so the idea here is that, you know, threat actors are usually going to utilize some type of social engineering and then that social engineering is going to get you to come to like a WordPress site through that WordPress site. They’re going to basically have scripts that you’re going to download and ultimately run. Innocuously. Now, when that happens, you download something that you think is OBS, like the example I gave earlier, it’s actually a JavaScript payload. Well, that JavaScript payload goes and reaches out and it pulls a malicious payload from the ether blockchain. Right. And so that’s that aspect of there’s function calls that we’ve identified within Blackpoint that are related to that remote management of pulling payloads from that blockchain. My personal opinion of this sort of technique is, you know, it gives a lot of advantage to the threat actors in terms of stealth and flexibility. But it is one of those techniques that is complicated for majority of what we see at Blackpoint. Most threat actors are not getting to that complicated level of compromising. They’re just hosting malware on a compromised WordPress site of a legitimate company that they’ve co-opted the passwords for. Right. And again, we see threat actors from different angles. 90 percent of what we see sort of today is cybercrime related. Right. So you have a lot of the fake CAPTCHA, the ClickFix lures, the Etherhiding stuff. The reality is at the end of that payload, we see everything from Etherhiding to Cobalt Strike to ransomware and compromise. The way that they get to that sort of compromise is kind of the same, though. Robert Dutt: Last one for me, if an MSP is listening to this and they’ve just absorbed that, you know, more than half of the attacks they’re going to see start with legitimate credentials, their own tools are showing up in about a third of incidents. MFA isn’t necessarily a guarantee. Where do you start? You know, what’s the one thing they probably aren’t doing today that would meaningfully move the needle for them in terms of making sure things are as locked down, as protected as is possible? Wil Santiago: That’s a great question. I like to say we should probably be spending most of our time right now really focusing on posture and posture management, reducing the attack surface. Right. How do you how do you start? Where do you start reducing the attack surface? This is where frameworks really come into play. And there’s some really great frameworks that are really prescriptive out there. One of them is the Center for Internet Security Controls, CIS version 8.1. It’s very prescriptive and it starts from the very top, right? External facing assets and applications. How do you lock those down? Cloud assets and applications, internal assets, user accounts, passwords, right? And it gives you a prescriptive way to deal with incidents. Beyond that, there’s kind of this like practical implementation groups that they have, right? And so you can start by implementing the CIS Controls with implementing one Implementation Group, right? You don’t have to implement them all. And so I think there’s a subset of Implementation Groups that can be used, but it’s about identifying, you know, what of these sort of subset groups will really resonate with your organization and your maturity level, right? And so I tell most people, look at IG1, start with the essentials. If you’ve already fit the bill on that, then move to IG2, right? But the reality is IG1 is going to give you that foundational security for organizations. And then IG2 and IG3 are going to be a little bit more advanced for more complex things. Most people are probably in that IG1, but they probably could benefit from some of the things in the IG2, the Implementation Groups there. That’s really going to help you really target your defenses against ransomware. That’s going to help you sort of approach a risk-based approach. That’s another thing that, you know, all risk is not the same, right? Risk is treated differently. And it’s important for anyone running a security team to help understand how should I prioritize my risk, right? Where is my risk going to really give me issues if a threat actor gets into it? And therefore, I always say, start there. We all know what keeps us up at night. So that’s the areas that we need to focus on. Robert Dutt: All right. Some sage advice and some sobering numbers as well. I appreciate your taking the time and walking us through some good stuff. Wil Santiago: Thank you, Robert. I really appreciate it. Robert Dutt: There you have it. Wil Santiago from Blackpoint Cyber. I’d like to thank Wil for his time today and for bringing some real energy to what can sometimes be pretty dense subject matter. And of course, I’d like to thank you for listening. The data in this conversation is worth thinking about. More than half of the attacks Blackpoint’s SOC starts with someone simply logging in, using credentials that were stolen sometimes long ago, and that users are still reusing across platforms. A third of triaged incidents involve RMM tools, the same tools your techs are using right now to manage endpoints. And MFA, as much as we’ve come to rely on it, is no longer the finish line it once appeared to be. The antidote Wil describes is behavioral context, understanding what normal looks like in an environment so you can spot when something legitimate is being done illegitimately. Not “Is this malware?” But “Is this person, using this tool at this hour from this location, doing something they’ve never done before?” That’s a fundamentally different way about thinking of detection, and it’s why the human element in the SOC still matters. And I’ll add one thing that Wil mentioned after we wrapped the recording. It’s a dimension of this fight that doesn’t get talked about often enough. Blackpoint’s work doesn’t stop at detection and response. They’re actively working to identify and disrupt adversary infrastructure, notifying law enforcement, including, he noted, Canadian authorities, with the specific goal of making cybercrime economically painful. The logic is straightforward. If your infrastructure gets taken down every time you try to run a campaign, the math of operating a criminal enterprise starts to change. That’s offense, and it sounds like they’re playing it. If you’re finding the show valuable, I’d encourage you to follow or subscribe to the podcast. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, all the major directories. A rating review always helps. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

Caller Questions & Discussion: Dr. Jacqui reflects on a therapy program's 40th anniversary at the school where she works and the importance of taking responsibility for our healing, as (James 2:17) states: “faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” What is an intervention? When is the right time to do an intervention with my alcoholic daughter? Are there any precautions to take? In 2013, I went to Every Man's Battle and ended up with an awesome friend. I used to make sex an idol, but it's been a joy now that I don't turn to pornography to satisfy my desires. My wife of 25 years thinks I'm having an affair with a married woman, but I'm not. The other woman is very touchy-feely, and we've gone on ski trips with her and her family. My best friend is a Jehovah's Witness. How do I guide her to see that her faith is not the same as Protestant Christianity?

Tyler Lynch, Outbound CTO at IBM, joins the show to discuss shifting from “tokenmaxxing” to “valuemaxxing” by optimizing AI agent workflows for efficiency. They explore using Obsidian for persistent agent memory to combat context bloat, the critical importance of secure sandboxing practices, and the strategic use of parallel verification to ensure your agents are performing... Read more »

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Zorrob, Krughul and Cloud try to get to Rethos who has been transported to a somewhere else! So much adventure, so little time! P.S. the ending is "lit fam."   Find links to all of our content & platforms here! Support us on Patreon! Watch us on Twitch! The Theme Song is "The Red Dragon's Inn" by Derek and Brandon Fiechter. The background music and ambient sounds are provided by Michael Ghelfi Studios.

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4ggpO8h Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter, a monthly roundup of the patterns and technologies senior practitioners are working through, with the news and lessons from people doing the work: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ Online Certification Programs: 5-week online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Programs now cover software architecture, AI engineering, and organizational architecture. Each week you join a four-hour live session with a confidential peer group of practitioners from other companies, apply frameworks from QCon talks to the decisions you're making at work, and earn an InfoQ certification. You leave with new approaches, or confirmation that the calls you're already making are the right ones. Learn more: https://certification.qconferences.com/ Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20, 2026) https://qconsf.com/ QCon London 2027 (April 13-16, 2027) https://qconlondon.com/ The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly conversations with senior software leaders about how they build systems and teams, including what they'd do differently. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: The InfoQ Podcast: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ: Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq X: https://x.com/InfoQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/infoq Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/infoq.com Write for InfoQ: Share what you've learned building software with a community of senior practitioners, and get your work in front of the people who read InfoQ. https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

Krista Cloud's path runs from a passion for climbing rock and riding trails in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas to brewing non alcoholic beverages for her own community. What started as home experiments to have something better than beer at bike and climbing events has grown into a brand built on natural ingredients and intentional choices. In this conversation, we talk about figuring it out, listening to customers early, outgrowing your space, leading alongside your spouse, realizing your capabilities, and understanding functional beverages.About Krista Cloud:Krista Cloud is the co-founder of Natural State Beverage Company, a Northwest Arkansas craft beverage company creating kombucha, functional sodas, and other naturally inspired drinks for people who value health, adventure, and great taste. What began as a home-brewing hobby alongside her husband, has grown into a thriving regional brand built on the belief that beverages should fuel an active lifestyle rather than work against it. Today, Krista helps lead the company through product development, brand building, and community engagement. As an entrepreneurial professional with over 10 years of experience in operations, customer relations, and marketing, she takes pride in creating thoughtful and innovative products that bring joy to others and support a healthier lifestyle.Learn more about Krista at:Website: https://www.naturalstatebeveragecompany.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krista-cloud-3b33a72b7/ To learn more, visit:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-shupp-18b4619b/ Listen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/Jason-Shupp/

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In This Episode Technology can create an opportunity, but without a system for accessing that opportunity, many talented entrepreneurs are still left on the sidelines. In this episode, Adi Klevit interviews Chaitra Vedullapalli, President and Co-founder of Women in Cloud, about entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, and the systems required to create economic access at scale. Chaitra shares her remarkable journey from coming to the United States as an immigrant and staying home for several years to building a technology career that included Oracle and Microsoft. She describes reinvention as one of her core competencies and explains how watching the evolution of technology taught her an important lesson: innovation moves quickly, but economic opportunity does not always move with it. Adi and Chaitra explore the infrastructure required to close that gap. Chaitra defines economic access as the ability to meaningfully participate in opportunity creation and wealth generation, including access to customers, capital, distribution channels, skills, influential networks, and decision-makers. She explains how Women in Cloud built programs around workforce readiness, marketplace acceleration, strategic partnerships, and leadership to create a repeatable pathway into opportunities that founders may otherwise struggle to reach. The conversation then turns to FoundHer World, an ambitious campaign built around collective action. Chaitra explains how spotlighting founders, creating go-to-market opportunities, connecting companies with major technology and enterprise ecosystems, and producing research can collectively unlock greater economic impact. Her message is closely aligned with the power of systems: big outcomes become more achievable when leaders clearly define the problem, build the right infrastructure, create repeatable pathways, and bring the right people together around a shared purpose.  

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Caller Questions & Discussion: Pastor and author Max Lucado joins us to discuss his newest book and explains how the story of Elijah demonstrates the power of prayer. Elijah was human, just as we are, and God wants us to bring our concerns to Him. We should always choose prayer rather than despair. What does it mean to wrestle in prayer? I recently read one of Max Lucado's devotionals, and it made me think how God had Jesus come to Earth as a human being so we would know He wants a family. I'm in my mid-60s, and I believe prayer should be the first thing we do. What do you mean by “divine disruptions”? What is one thing you hope readers will take away from your book? Whatever drought you're going through, God has set a time limit for it. Can you talk about that?

The Big Unlock · Dr. Angela Shippy, Senior Physician Executive and Clinical Innovation Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS) In this episode, Dr. Angela Shippy, Senior Physician Executive and Clinical Innovation Lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), shares how cloud and AI are reshaping healthcare by helping organizations move from experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation. She explains that successful AI adoption requires more than powerful models – it demands secure cloud infrastructure, responsible governance, workforce upskilling, and trusted partnerships. Dr. Shippy explains how leading health systems are moving beyond isolated AI pilots by solving well-defined organizational and clinical challenges first. Through purpose-built services like Amazon Connect Health, institutions are streamlining patient engagement, reducing administrative burden, and improving access to care. From antimicrobial resistance surveillance to genomics research and health equity programs, she illustrates how cloud-based platforms are helping healthcare organizations generate insights faster and improve patient outcomes at scale. Dr. Shippy believes that scaling enterprise AI requires upskilling healthcare workforces, establishing strong security guardrails, and embracing agentic workflows. She envisions a future driven by multimodal AI, ambient listening, and automated task execution that accelerates drug discovery, reduces burnout, and enables clinicians to focus on direct patient care. Dr. Shippy encourages health systems to start small, think big, and never lose sight of improving patient and workforce experiences. She believes agentic technologies will augment clinicians, accelerate innovation, and help build a more connected, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem. Take a listen. This guest appearance was facilitated through conversations initiated at ViVE.

In this episode of The Get Down: Beyond Bitcoin podcast, host Marisa Estrada Rivera (aka Ritzy P) sits down with Wyatt Meldman-Floch, founder and CEO of Rule 110 Inc. and the creator of Reality Network.With a background spanning computational physics, quantum mechanics, machine learning, and NASA's SETI project, Wyatt shares his journey from Silicon Valley to building foundational blockchain infrastructure. The conversation explores how decentralized compute can dismantle costly cloud monopolies, the power of unifying client-server architecture, how cryptographic proof of execution is transforming AI and autonomous systems, and the surprising connection between applied mathematics and sonifying the blockchain.Interview with Wyatt Meldman-Floch, Founder & CEO of Rural 110 Inc. and Creator of Reality Network From NASA SETI to Blockchain Infrastructure: How background research in physics, quantum mechanics, and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence led Wyatt away from corporate tech and into distributed systems after discovering Joseph Poon's Plasma whitepaper.The Reality Ecosystem Triad: A breakdown of Reality Network (a decentralized DAG compute marketplace), Rural 110 Inc. (the commercial C-corp driving consumer application revenue), and the Reality Foundation (a non-profit advancing internet infrastructure in emerging markets like South Africa and Zanzibar).Unifying Client and Server Architecture: How shifting server workloads onto community-powered client devices (idle phones and laptops) slashes operating costs for tech startups and eliminates reliance on centralized cloud providers.Verifiable Execution for the AI Era: Why adding cryptographic proof of execution to decentralized compute builds trust-native applications and brings transparency to black-box machine learning models and agentic AI.Future Tech Frontiers: Looking beyond Web3 to the convergence of quantum computing, applied mathematics, and nuclear fusion to solve energy and computational bottlenecks in our lifetime.Orchestrating Consensus & Sonifying Code: How musical concepts like "algoraving" and orchestra conducting mirror distributed consensus models, and the process of turning Reality Network block data into sound using code.Eagle Scout Leadership & Fun Facts: The fundamental role that becoming an Eagle Scout played in shaping Wyatt's leadership philosophy, organizing communities, and building resilient tech startups.About Wyatt Meldman-Floch Wyatt Meldman-Floch is the Founder and CEO of Rule 110 Inc. and the creator of Reality Network, a validated compute marketplace built for the AI and autonomous systems era. Reality lets applications run on community-powered compute from idle laptops, phones, and small devices, reducing dependence on costly cloud infrastructure while adding cryptographic proof of execution: a verifiable record of what code ran, on what inputs, when, and where.A former computational physicist, machine learning engineer, and lifelong programmer, Wyatt has spent over 17 years building large-scale data, AI, and distributed systems. He previously founded Constellation Network, where he served as Chairman and CTO, and has published foundational work on mathematical models for blockchain and distributed-system efficiency.With Reality, Wyatt is building infrastructure for trust-native applications: agentic AI, automated trading, gaming, cross-chain systems, and digital economies where execution must be verified rather than assumed. His work sits at the intersection of decentralized compute, consensus design, cryptographic provenance, and a broader vision for an internet owned and powered by its participants.Links from the Episode CONNECT WITH WYATT MELDMAN-FLOCH & REALITY NETWORK: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wlmeldmanfloch/REALITY NETWORK LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reality-networkX: https://x.com/wyatt_noiseREALITY NETWORK X: https://x.com/RealityNetw0rkBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7tqjjha6afxbyt7tdefofqfmREALITY NETWORK Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/therealitynetwork.bsky.socialReality Network Discord: https://discord.com/invite/HeYkXpV5SH CONNECT WITH BUTTERSCOTCH MEDIA:Website: butterscotch.mediaFinTech TV Network: https://fintech.tv/category/the-get-down-podcast-series/Subscribe to Chews Tipsheet: butterscotch.media/subscribeFollow us on X: @butterscotch360

What is the connection between these verses and the Day of Atonement?What is the Shekinah and will it come to earth with Christ?Do we need a covering to enter into God's holy presence?

Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: With each passing day the price of ending Trump's war on Iran gets higher and higher and Senator Chris Murphy says he is prepared to accept a terrible deal just to stop the bleeding from this failed effort. Cecilia Rikap, Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, joins to discuss her new book: "The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud". In the Fun Half: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that Democrats of his ilk are not running from the party but attempting to return it to where it once was. The PBD podcast crew host former underwear model, Antonio Sabato, Jr., to partake in a collective meltdown over Abdul El-Sayed. Senator Tim Scott claims that attack ads ran against Abdul El-Sayed that use his full name are not rooted in islamophobia. Rep. AOC calls out the hypocrisy of the consultants demanding candidates condemn Hasan Piker being the same ones who called for candidates to do shows like Joe Rogan Experience. Sign up to get involved with South Central Pennsylvania DSA. all that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: COZY EARTH: Go to cozyearth.com/MAJORITYREPORT for an exclusive 20% off. NUTRAFOL: Get $10 off your first month's subscription + free shipping at Nutrafol.com when you use promo code TMR10 SUNSET LAKE CBD: Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and use code BIRTHDAY26 at checkout to save 25% on everything sitewide. Spend over $100 and get a bonus gift on top of it all. Sale ends August 17th at Midnight.  @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's YouTube channel: https://ww.youtube.com/Th3Discourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here: https:/www.youtube.com/@avaraiza

Caller Questions & Discussion: Dr. Alice discusses how screens and AI chatbots can draw children into unsafe situations, including harmful relationships and even suicide. Parents and grandparents can help by setting healthy screen boundaries and staying connected with children online and offline. I retired in April after 47 years of marriage and 35 years as a truck driver. I feel like I have a new life and new opportunities, but my wife still controls our finances, keeps the house cluttered, and won't listen to my ideas. I'm alive, but I'm not living. I'm 31 weeks pregnant, single, and recently moved in with my 14-year-old sister and my mom who calls me names. As a new believer, how can I respond to family disagreements in a Christ-like way? What's the best way to handle hurt feelings in our relationship with our estranged adult daughter? She mainly agrees to visits when she needs us to babysit. We respect her boundaries, but it feels like a wall is building between us.

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Interview 1: Robin Macfarlane from RRMac Associats The Mattress Money Principle: What a 50-Year Veteran Knows About System Fragility In this interview, Robin and Adrian discuss how technology has evolved over the past 50 years. Despite massive technological changes over the decades: the PC revolution, the Internet, smartphones, the Cloud, and now Generative AI - the majority of financial institutions still use mainframes and midrange machines. Why? We explore the reasons why older technology persists alongside the new and the lessons retiring technologists can pass on to new generations inheriting an increasingly diverse tech landscape. Interview 2 with Kyle Sandy from Logically Operational Clarity as the New Customer Experience Kyle Sandy joins Adrian to discuss how prioritizing resilience affects how organizations should plan for incident response. In the past, security teams were focused on prevention and limiting breach damage. Today, boards want to know how long it will take to recover operations. The interview wraps up with a discussion of the right and wrong way to handle a breach and the three most important things every company must get right in order to handle an incident well. Interview 3 with Todd Thiemann from Omdia AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules Todd joins ESW with some eye-opening survey insights on the topic of IAM for AI agents. While cybersecurity conversations about internal AI use often revolve around the SOC and security operations, Omdia surveyed identity professionals for a more holistic enterprise perspective. Unsurprisingly, AI agent use is as diverse as enterprise business units. The surprises are around where the budget comes from for these AI projects, and how authentication is handled. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-471

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 10th, with Corey Quinn. Links:Amazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockHow to understand and estimate combined AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced costsAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scaleRuntime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Connect Service Quota MonitorEnforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon BedrockReintroducing Network Firewall Proxy for Secure Egress ConnectivityAWS Supports Agent Plugins: An Open Standard for Portable Agent ExtensionsIntroducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agentsAWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflowsCaching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scaleAccess Amazon S3 backup data directly using S3 Access Points in AWS BackupTwelve AWS bulletins, mostly AI toolingFrom weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

Elijah ran from the storm until the Lord showed him that the Lord was in the storm.  Brian Higbee shows us that the storms of life are meant for our good providing we can speak to the storms knowing God is in them.  Check it out.  

Interview 1: Robin Macfarlane from RRMac Associats The Mattress Money Principle: What a 50-Year Veteran Knows About System Fragility In this interview, Robin and Adrian discuss how technology has evolved over the past 50 years. Despite massive technological changes over the decades: the PC revolution, the Internet, smartphones, the Cloud, and now Generative AI - the majority of financial institutions still use mainframes and midrange machines. Why? We explore the reasons why older technology persists alongside the new and the lessons retiring technologists can pass on to new generations inheriting an increasingly diverse tech landscape. Interview 2 with Kyle Sandy from Logically Operational Clarity as the New Customer Experience Kyle Sandy joins Adrian to discuss how prioritizing resilience affects how organizations should plan for incident response. In the past, security teams were focused on prevention and limiting breach damage. Today, boards want to know how long it will take to recover operations. The interview wraps up with a discussion of the right and wrong way to handle a breach and the three most important things every company must get right in order to handle an incident well. Interview 3 with Todd Thiemann from Omdia AI Agents and Identity Security: How Enterprises Are Rewriting the Rules Todd joins ESW with some eye-opening survey insights on the topic of IAM for AI agents. While cybersecurity conversations about internal AI use often revolve around the SOC and security operations, Omdia surveyed identity professionals for a more holistic enterprise perspective. Unsurprisingly, AI agent use is as diverse as enterprise business units. The surprises are around where the budget comes from for these AI projects, and how authentication is handled. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-471

Something unusual is happening across American Christianity: more people are walking into Orthodox parishes, signing up as catechumens, and staying long enough to be reshaped by the Divine Liturgy. We zoom in on what that “Orthodox surge” looks like on the ground, from standing-room-only Sundays to communities talking seriously about planting multiple missions because their current buildings cannot hold the crowd.*****Music:  ⁨@neffexmusic⁩ "Manifest It" (Instrumental)*****Witness Weekly Team:Jeremy JeremiahMario Andrew "Andrew St Mercy"  ⁨@Orthobigbro⁩ James St Simon  ⁨@jamessaintsimon⁩ Michael "Redlines" Lindsey  ⁨@redlineshq⁩  *****Questions about Orthodoxy? Please check out our friends at Ghost of Byzantium Discord server: https://discord.gg/jRXxRaqK9Please prayerfully consider supporting Cloud of Witnesses: https://www.patreon.com/c/CloudofWitnessesFind Cloud of Witnesses on Instagram, X.com, Facebook, and TikTok.Audio: https://cloudofwitnessesradio.buzzsprout.comPlease leave a comment with your thoughts!

We think of all the things that Moses got to experience: the parting of the Red Sea, water from a rock, the Cloud and Fire. We read in today's chapter that Moses asks God for more. And we might think, "Come on, haven't you gotten enough?" But what Moses is asking for isn't more stuff from God, He's asking for MORE of GOD. To experience Him, to know Him better, to be closer to Him. Let us never take for granted this truth: the Almighty God, Creator of the universe, desires to have a friendship with us, the creatures He breathed out of dust.

In today's Daily Fix:The cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite have been shut down, and Switch players who purchased the game no longer have access to it. Cloud versions need to be stored onto servers in order to run, and when gamers "buy" a copy, they're only buying a license to access the game, not to own the game in perpetuity. The shutdown and lack of any kind of refund or discount for the sequel have subsequently shined more light on Sony's decision to discontinue manufacturing physical game discs in 2028. In other news, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for PS5 and Steam saw a surge in sales and player counts since the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters over a week ago. And finally, No Man's Sky is celebrating 10 years, and a comeback story of sorts since the game's disasterous launch in 2016. A new free content update, Cosmos, was also announced.

Send us Fan MailJuly Episode — What's New in Cloud FinOpsEpisode SummaryIn this July episode of What's New in Cloud FinOps, Frank and SteveO cover a packed set of cloud and AI cost-management updates across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Alibaba, and OpenAI. The conversation focuses on how cloud vendors are changing pricing models, improving observability, and adding new ways to optimize compute, storage, and AI workloads.The standout theme is that AI and cloud economics are becoming more dynamic: pricing is shifting by usage pattern, time of day, workload type, and capacity model. The hosts also dig into how organizations can use these changes to improve governance, control costs, and make smarter architecture decisions.Top Topics CoveredAWS EKS and ECS GPU management fee reductionsAmazon CloudWatch intelligent tiering for logsAmazon S3 removing the 30-day minimum for storage class transitionsAWS Billing and Cost Management adding a cost efficiency widgetAWS Data Exports adding standardized Bedrock metadataAWS Lambda publishing logs for managed capacity providersAzure reservation exchange changes and legacy VM RI renewalsAlibaba Cloud time-of-day pricing for frontier AI modelsAlibaba model routing reference architectureOpenAI GPT model price cuts and Bedrock matching those ratesOracle bringing Gemini models into OCIGoogle Data Stream free tier for CDC writesAmazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analyticsMicrosoft Marketplace single-click SaaS purchasesAWS sustainability dashboard adding water withdrawal dataKey TakeawaysAI pricing is getting more sophisticated.Providers are increasingly using variable pricing, off-peak discounts, and routing strategies to steer usage and improve margins.Cloud optimisation is moving deeper into the platform.Vendors are surfacing more native tools for cost visibility, efficiency scoring, and policy-driven automation.Storage and logging are becoming more cost-aware.New features in S3, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch help teams store more data for less while keeping observability usable.Governance and procurement remain critical.

Don’t miss the AI partnership revolution Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX: https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this episode, Vince Menzione sits down with Amit Sinha from WorkSpan and Marc Monday from ServiceNow to dissect the rapid evolution of AI-native partnerships and the shifting dynamics of the channel ecosystem. They explore how the hyperscaler co-sell model has transformed into a complex strategy of asymmetrical collaboration that demands unprecedented speed, simplicity, and scale from publishers. By integrating AI agents to orchestrate workflows, manage high-risk renewals, and automate low-dollar deals, companies can activate their sellers and drive explosive, exponential growth in their partner programs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP4cFBcCI9Q Key Takeaways The partner channel is no longer just a piece of the strategy; it is the entire strategy for winning in 2026. Modern co-selling is an asymmetrical collaboration where publishers must often do more than fifty percent of the heavy lifting. Implementing AI agents within partnerships can lead to massive revenue impacts, such as a 24% higher lift on renewals for companies like Boomi. True scaling requires moving beyond traditional time-and-materials consulting toward outcome-based frameworks for customers. Activating sellers through continuous AI-driven account orchestration is the ultimate key to unlocking exponential ecosystem growth. The market is moving faster than ever, necessitating that partner enablement and roadmaps shift to agile, sprint-based cycles rather than long-term rigid plans. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags AI native, ecosystem shifting, hyperscalers, Work Span, ServiceNow, lifecycle incentives, cloud native, consumption led, DocuSign, Gong, Boomi, workflow orchestration, asymmetrical collaboration, CRM integration, marketplace private offers, high propensity, seller activation, agentic solution, outcome based consulting, LLM control tower. Transcript Amit Sinha and Marc Monday Audio Episode [00:00:00] Marc Monday: We have to be soup drop dead simple and we’re gonna talk about that nice. In this world. It has to be simple. Even though under the covers it’s very complicated, [00:00:10] Vince Menzione: you can feel it happening. The ecosystem is shifting beneath us. The way Hyperscalers are partnering, how AI is remaking the channel and what it means to win in 2026. [00:00:21] Vince Menzione: Welcome to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. I’m Vince Menzi, own your host. And each week I sit down with leaders at the intersection of technology, partnerships and outcomes. The voices shaping how ecosystems actually work. We talk about what’s real, what’s changing, and what it takes to lead in this era where the partner channel isn’t just part of the strategy. [00:00:43] Vince Menzione: It is the strategy because being in the room [00:00:46] Marc Monday: changes everything. Let’s start. [00:00:52] Vince Menzione: And, uh, two incredible friends up on, uh, up on stage. But I think I’m just gonna have my, one of my first friends come up. Amit Sinha from Work Span, a great, great friend and supporter. We’ve been together since the beginning, since the very first ultimate partner in Dallas when we commandeered Microsoft facility. [00:01:12] Amit Sinha: Yeah, [00:01:12] Vince Menzione: you have a little bit that you’re gonna share first and then we’re all gonna come join you. [00:01:16] Amit Sinha: Absolutely. And [00:01:17] Vince Menzione: then we’re gonna have my other great friend, mark Monday on us on stage with us as well. So yeah, [00:01:21] Amit Sinha: what a privilege. Uh, what a privilege. Vince, you do an amazing job as a community and, uh, incredible. [00:01:27] Amit Sinha: Shout out to Alexandra. Uh, we work together at Cisco talking about lifecycle incentives across the whole lifecycle. So amazing work done there as well. So. Very quickly, I’m gonna talk to you about AI native partnerships. A quick motivation. That’s me. Of course, we are using Nano banana to cover that. [00:01:45] Amit Sinha: That’s me looking up a Yellow Pages. I will date myself. That’s, uh, McDonald’s coming to India and me looking up, uh, the nearest McDonald’s, right? And this is me now booking Uber Eats Ma and I had this real experience yesterday night. I flew in from Sapphire in Orlando and I was hungry. Ma said, let’s, let’s get Uber Eats. [00:02:06] Amit Sinha: And we had a great. De this is digital native, right? We had no idea the world would transform this way, but completely new ways of working. Okay. Um, and, uh, another great experience that Mike, my co-founder and CEO seated the back half, I spent a decade at SAP, uh, doing hana, which was a database product, but it was on premise. [00:02:28] Amit Sinha: We had these racks and our whole gig was actually take an amazing HANA database with this server mounted, deployed. Wow. The CIO and the CFO, that this is the most amazing thing. And they would not say, Hey, you can’t take that box away, because it’s such a good insight that I get for my, uh, analytics product, right. [00:02:47] Amit Sinha: So that’s the old way. And look at us. We are all cloud native, right? Cloud has gotten to a place where it’s not just about infrastructure, running things and meters and stuff like that in a scalable way. It is a also source of innovation. New capability, new business model, consumption led business model. [00:03:07] Amit Sinha: Whole new way of working, right? So this comes to the new world now, what does AI need to look like? We heard all the amazing speakers talk about, uh, you know, the promise of ai, right? But you have a choice. Uh, you have a choice to do it yourself or, uh, especially as partnership professionals, right? When you do it yourself, you have this chat bots and stuff that you get from all the major. [00:03:33] Amit Sinha: You can always get more productive, but that’s about half an hour saved. The bar is too low there. So this is an amazing piece of, uh, research put together by all the experts. Vince, thank you for doing that. Uh, we had Jay McBain lend his voice as well. We had Rob Moyer with all his, uh, decades of, you know, insight and wisdom as to what would the future with AI look like, uh, encapsulate in that. [00:03:57] Amit Sinha: So go ahead, take a picture. Uh, this is not gated. Um, beautiful piece of content has also new insights from leading firms. AI native, I would dare say frontier firms who are like DocuSign or Gong who are really pioneering AI native partnerships, Boomi, and how they’re powering their renewal business case across AWS Google and Microsoft Marketplaces. [00:04:21] Amit Sinha: Uh, this really talks about that. And here, uh, this is the thought leadership that we bring to the table. And again, this is not a vendor pitch. This is, you know, as you elevate from the low bar about making yourself productive where you’re cut and paste, uh, into a chatbot, your context so that you can get a better co-sell email out there. [00:04:40] Amit Sinha: You DIY, this thing. But if you think of working with works span, these are three things that you should think about. First is imagine instead of cut and paste, you have your entire partnership context right there. And because the context is there, the right better together story, the right case study, the right partnership documents, the right opportunity and accounts that intelligence not only informs you, but also your team in a, in an extended way, and even your partnership in an extended way that’s fully automated. [00:05:13] Amit Sinha: Second is it’s not just informing you or sensing you, it is also acting. And I think this is where there are, you know, death by a thousand cuts if happening in the world where all this time gets taken up, right? But if you have an agent that scales in ly, whether you are big mature partnership, you got lots and lots of accounts and opportunities to cover, the agent can do that. [00:05:36] Amit Sinha: Or if you’re a new partnership, how do you get to market quickly? With the right assets, the right get to market content. This can work both ways. And lastly, how do you secure this partnership is done in trust. So you should have an agent for every partnership, uniquely your partnership with Microsoft, your partnership with ServiceNow, your partnership with uh, AWS and Google. [00:05:59] Amit Sinha: They all get a different agent. And the point here is these agents can work in a circle of trust and the boundary that gets established. So via work span, come talk to us outside. And with that, Vince, let’s uh, bring Mark along. Come on, mark. [00:06:17] Vince Menzione: Alright. I am gonna have you and then Mark, uh, yeah. Want mark in the middle? [00:06:22] Marc Monday: Oh, uh oh. [00:06:24] Vince Menzione: So, uh, let me move over so I get back to the picture slide. Look at those two handsome gentlemen up there. Uh, thrilled to have you Mark as well. Uh, for those of you who don’t, because you’ve been, you were just in Boca with us this Yeah. This winter. [00:06:39] Marc Monday: That’s right. [00:06:40] Vince Menzione: And, uh, tell us about your new role at ServiceNow. [00:06:43] Marc Monday: Well, I have the absolute privilege of leading the partner channel at ServiceNow. Yeah. Um, it’s comprised of our partner programs, our program gives and gets, and importantly our five routes to market, our consulting and implementation partners, our resell partners, our service provider partners, our hyperscaler partners, and importantly our build partners. [00:07:03] Vince Menzione: I love it. I love it. So let’s talk about the partner programs and why they’re so critical to ServiceNow right now. [00:07:08] Marc Monday: I think in this world scale is everything, and so this profession has always been a bit mercurial and a little bit of a black box for organizations. What does the partner team do? What does that look like? [00:07:21] Marc Monday: But what we have to continue to do is explain, this is your force multiplier. Working together in collaboration helps you scale beyond your individual numbers. And that’s really the thing that we’re focused on is how do we drive that? And I have three big things that we have to focus on is we have to be sup, drop dead simple, and we’re gonna talk about that [00:07:40] Vince Menzione: nice. [00:07:41] Marc Monday: In this world, it has to be simple. Even though under the covers it’s very complicated. We have to be incredibly fast. Agility is the key in this very moment. And then as I said, with that becomes the scaling element and the force multiplier. [00:07:56] Vince Menzione: And you have spent many, you, well, we both worked at Microsoft together. [00:07:59] Vince Menzione: It’s [00:07:59] Marc Monday: true. [00:07:59] Amit Sinha: Way back way. [00:08:00] Marc Monday: I feel like you’re punking me having me right before lunch. Like I remember back at Microsoft, you did something to me, so I’m gonna have you right before lunch. [00:08:07] Vince Menzione: It’s, no, it’s really terrific to have you. But, uh, so yeah, you, you mentioned about like the change and the specificity and the clarity around it. [00:08:16] Vince Menzione: Amme you have, uh, broken the model, so to speak, working with ServiceNow, right? Yeah. You went from being a traditional. I’ll call it co-sell Engine Marketplace Company. Uh, tell us, tell us, tell us about the innovation that’s going on in the room. We’re working with ServiceNow. [00:08:31] Amit Sinha: Absolutely. Uh, when you think of co-sell, the first mine goes to just co-sell with the hyperscalers, right? [00:08:36] Amit Sinha: Because they kind of pioneered and started this in a unique way. We, of course, got started with Microsoft eight years ago, doing not just co-sell and P two P, but since then AW S and Google right. You would be surprised to know that we do about 10% of AWS sales through work, expand co-sale. Right. Just [00:08:53] Vince Menzione: wow. [00:08:53] Amit Sinha: But that’s where we started. Where we ended up is really looking at all partner types and all motion types and. Mark and I disagreed and he, he really pushed me hard on this. Yeah, and the point here is if you look at your build partner motion, it’s also a co-sell. You build, then you co-sell and go to market, [00:09:11] Vince Menzione: right? [00:09:12] Amit Sinha: If you think about your services partners, right? You have a product. They have amazing last mile services and digital transformation. Uh, capabilities, and again, there’s a coastal motion there. So where we world works span eventually was not just coastal with hyperscalers, but across all partner types. And Mark, thank you for pushing us on that. [00:09:31] Amit Sinha: Yeah. And being a pioneering partner on works span with us. I really appreciate [00:09:34] Marc Monday: this. It was a fun rumble we got there. [00:09:37] Vince Menzione: So why does it matter now for ServiceNow specific? [00:09:40] Marc Monday: Yeah. I mean the reality is, um, I’m gonna say something provocative. We’re, we’re all friends. Yeah. Um, Cosell iss probably a misnomer. It’s not a 50 50 coequal relationship. [00:09:53] Vince Menzione: Yeah. You don’t walk in together holding it back. [00:09:55] Marc Monday: It’s asymmetrical collaboration. I love that. And I want to put the stake in the ground. The co-sell motions that have been created by the hyperscalers are wonderful. The pipe has been opened, but the reality is the publisher. Has to do a lot of the work and the systems are there, but the key is not just connecting into partner center as an example. [00:10:16] Marc Monday: Yeah. But building your own infrastructure and processes. That’s where the magic comes together, and that’s where we really drive scale. And so if we approach co-selling is asymmetrical collaboration and recognizing that you probably need to do more than 50%. When a, when a a team collaborates on co-authoring a book, it’s not like someone’s writing every other word, and it’s exactly 50%. [00:10:40] Marc Monday: Or if a pilot, a co-pilot is with a pilot on a plane, they’re not doing exactly 50% of the work’s, [00:10:46] Vince Menzione: right? No. [00:10:47] Marc Monday: This asymmetric approach requires that we do a lot of the work on our side. Yeah. And that’s where AM and team have really helped us a ton. [00:10:55] Vince Menzione: And ServiceNow was known as a ticketing solution back in the day. [00:10:58] Vince Menzione: Right. And you’ve kind of, I mean, it it, it started that way. [00:11:01] Marc Monday: We have a wonderful heritage 20 plus years Yeah. Of workflow orchestration. Yeah. And in a diggen world, what are we really doing? We’re orchestrating workflows, and importantly, we need to govern those workflows and we need to sequence them in a meaningful way. [00:11:17] Marc Monday: And so our vision of a control tower across any hyperscaler, any LLM, any workflow, any system of record, any time, that’s the key to everything. [00:11:27] Vince Menzione: And so now you’ve taken the work span approach and driven it across what I see, like taking, taking this. This stack, we’ll call it. Yeah, the tower. Yeah. And then applying all of the methodologies and best practices on what we’ve called co-selling and ecosystem orchestration, essentially is what it really is. [00:11:46] Amit Sinha: Absolutely. [00:11:46] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:11:47] Amit Sinha: Yeah. And we are thrilled to partner with ServiceNow on this. So ServiceNow, as you guys know, uh, release their CRM product. So we got in at the ground floor on that opportunity and with the now assist agents as well. What we’ve really built is an integration between work span as a platform. [00:12:03] Amit Sinha: And ServiceNow, CRM as well. So if anybody is using that all the way from ServiceNow opportunities to Marketplace private offers, you can a genetically do that. Of course you can do it on Salesforce Hub, spot and Dynamics, but now ServiceNow is an additional option on that. I wanna really double click though, mark, on your point around asymmetry around this, when we say six to seven partners are gonna surround the end customer, right? [00:12:27] Amit Sinha: Yes. They will come at different points in time. Yes. Right? And they will also have different roles to play. So just as you think of a team, right? A soccer team for that matter, or a football team, pick your analogy right. Not everybody’s equal. Right? There’s always a qb. There’s always somebody who holds the prime on the deal. [00:12:45] Amit Sinha: There’s always a role to play. [00:12:46] Marc Monday: Yeah, [00:12:47] Amit Sinha: and I think what’s beautiful about our partnership here is when you look at it applied to services partners, it’s about building billion dollar businesses around ServiceNow, using their competency, but knowing the kind of joint accounts you need to go pursue in order to. [00:13:03] Amit Sinha: You know, burn down their inventory or, or co-sell alongside. If it’s the build partner, it’s about attacking an industry vertical or a joint account there. Right? So knowing very intelligently who to partner with and when to bring them on is the AI orchestration that is key in this partnership [00:13:19] Vince Menzione: here. Yeah. [00:13:19] Vince Menzione: So important. ’cause you, it isn’t single threaded this, this asymmetrical approach. [00:13:24] Amit Sinha: Right. So [00:13:25] Vince Menzione: incredible. You just ha you just finished your big event. I was hoping I did spare Share with us a little bit of your perspective on what’s been changing and how your ecosystem is evolving. Uh, I had Jen Odes in the studio. [00:13:38] Vince Menzione: That’s right. As you know, back in the fall. Fall, go back and watch it again. Yeah, it’s available. Great. Great podcast interview. Yeah. And you’ve been on stage at our events before and we’ve had that as a podcast, but take us how things are changing from the partner type perspective. We have MSPs in the room. [00:13:53] Vince Menzione: I know MSPs are, I know again, hands on the steering wheel. So important, right? Yeah. This technology is so complex. How are you thinking about ecosystem in your role? [00:14:03] Marc Monday: Yeah, I said earlier it’s about simplicity, speed, and scale. Yeah. Last week we had our big customer event knowledge, and on the first day we had our partner event. [00:14:13] Marc Monday: I think the biggest thing that’s happening right now is the pace of change is a bit overwhelming at times. And keeping pace with that is super critical. So what we’ve tried to do and what we announced last week was a lot of investment in giving our channel partners the exact same tools that we use in our business, right? [00:14:32] Marc Monday: So we were really focused on. Um, delivering business value. And so we took our, the solution that we use or the tools that we use for, um, delivering, uh, business value through our partners. It’s an assessment tool. Um, we’ve syndicated that to our partners. We’ve made that available. We also put a little bit of a stake in the ground around what do customers expect right now? [00:14:56] Marc Monday: Um, the time and materials business is gonna be under a tremendous amount of pressure. Some studies are predicting that it could be. Compressed by as much as 30% customers are looking for outcome based. Yeah. Um, they may stop on that journey and, and have something that’s fixed fee. But the reality is everyone is expecting value from the, the technology that they buy, and particularly from an agent perspective. [00:15:21] Marc Monday: We really leaned in on that and published what I think is a pretty good framework mm-hmm. For, um, outcome-based consulting. And we had a couple partners co-author that with us, which was really wonderful. Nice. Um, and it was a nice piece of co-creation and I think I’m seeing more and more of that where we’re co-creating with our partners in ways that we’ve never done before. [00:15:41] Marc Monday: And then I think importantly, security and reliability, um, and managing risk increasingly will be important. In an agentic world, we call it a control tower. We made two fairly big acquisitions in the last several months in terms of both the front door and the back door in terms of securing with the calls that are going into that agent or from that agent. [00:16:04] Marc Monday: To your various data sources. And so for us trying to bring that all together with our strong history of workload flow, orchestration, and then importantly, governance, security, and risk, uh, in the environment today, when you have the potential for hundreds of thousands or even millions of agents touching your core systems of record, [00:16:24] Vince Menzione: how are you thinking about both tiering your partners and also enabling your partners? [00:16:30] Marc Monday: Yeah, I think this is also an, an an area where I’d love to benchmark with y’all, um, because, you know, historically most of us built a fairly robust learning plan for our partners. You’d have a certification and then you would have a competency, and then you, maybe you’d have a wrapper around that competency. [00:16:48] Marc Monday: And it would take a long time, maybe 12 or 18 months to get to that highest level of certification. And it was incredibly robust and that’s wonderful. But when the roadmap is moving so fast that we’re releasing weekly, monthly, and every 90 days, does that type of training still hold water? So I’m proposing that we have both a volume view of how many trained individuals can we get as quickly as possible, and then value. [00:17:16] Marc Monday: And so we don’t want to lose this rich history, what I would describe as the rear view mirror, how we got here, but we also need to approach the windscreen, the windshield, where are we going and what is that opportunity? Yeah, so we have to go a little bit faster when it comes to enablement, [00:17:32] Vince Menzione: so. You, you were in a partnership, you, you call it a built on partnership. [00:17:37] Vince Menzione: Is that, is that the approach that [00:17:38] Amit Sinha: Yeah. ServiceNow has an ISV program called The Built On Partnership. Built On [00:17:41] Vince Menzione: Partnership, yeah. [00:17:42] Amit Sinha: Uh, so we sign onto that program, great accelerators to build lot of coaching and help to build on the ServiceNow platform. It’s not just the CRM integration, where it’s the opportunities and orders. [00:17:54] Amit Sinha: And by the way, this is the best platform or order management out there. So if you think of, uh, of your, if you are a MSP or consulting partner, building orders for your customers, now you want them to land on the marketplace, right? You wanna build that highway. Think of work span, right? So that’s where we came in and we said that if we look at the large number of channel partners, MSPs, who need to do that and are using ServiceNow as a platform to do it, can they genetically do it right from the now CRM? [00:18:24] Amit Sinha: Yeah, so that’s why we came in. The three big use cases we saw, number one was renewals. You talked about Alexandra doing it. Renewals is so [00:18:31] Vince Menzione: important. Yeah. [00:18:32] Amit Sinha: Oh my goodness. If you think about the renewals playbook [00:18:34] Vince Menzione: was so huge, [00:18:35] Amit Sinha: six months, nine, you know, uh, 90 days out, you wanna build that playbook. Mm-hmm. In an agent way when you reach out. [00:18:43] Amit Sinha: And by the way, you heard, uh, die Talk about 462 billion of uncontested Cloud commits out there. Yep. You want your high risk renewals to go against the high propensity to buy accounts. Right. So imagine that matchmaking, if you were to do it humanly, it’ll take you days. If you had an agent to do it like the now assist agent, it can just be done like that. [00:19:06] Amit Sinha: So that was the first use case we went after. Nice. The second one was the low dollar automation. We all have businesses that we land, right? Sub 50 K deals, so we have inside sales teams calling on those customers all day long. So now imagine a Gentech solution where you take all those low dollar deals and again, tie to the marketplace. [00:19:26] Amit Sinha: How can you have express private offers, right, from your opportunities? So those were the two use cases that we went after first and boy, uh, we got some amazing results, [00:19:36] Vince Menzione: I bet [00:19:36] Amit Sinha: for one of these companies, Boomi, we showed that 24% higher lift on renewals. That’s like hundreds of millions in impact just in one year alone. [00:19:46] Vince Menzione: And using AI internally as obviously you’re an AI company. Yeah. How are you thinking about how’s the impact of AI helping the partner function within ServiceNow? [00:19:54] Marc Monday: I, I think there’s this really wonderful opportunity right now where in the short term, we’re taking busy work out of the partner management profession. [00:20:05] Marc Monday: Um, partner managers historically have spent a lot of time chasing data and chasing information and really acting as an ombudsman for the partner within the organization. That work is very quickly. Getting identified. That’s phase one. The thing I’m actually a little more excited about is when it can expand the horizon to have different types of conversations, expanding the partnerships, expanding the multi-partner oppor opportunities. [00:20:29] Marc Monday: That, for me is the next phase, but we, I believe we are the most progressive when it comes to using AI on ourselves and really trying to take the profession to the next level. [00:20:40] Vince Menzione: Nice. Well, I was gonna, I was gonna, I want to go back to the platform again. ’cause you, you’re, you’re starting, you, you mentioned renewals, you’re mentioning some of the success. [00:20:50] Vince Menzione: What else can you point to on the success side, [00:20:52] Amit Sinha: there’s some, uh, amazing research that Sam here has done, uh, with all the data that Wepan has. So we looked at close to a million opportunities and, uh, looked at all the companies doing well. And we actually tabulated how many sellers are engaged on co-sell, not the partnering team, but how many end sellers. [00:21:11] Amit Sinha: This shows the extent of the transformation that the company has gone through, and what we found was amazing. If more than 50% of your sellers have engaged on 10 or more deals, your ecosystem is exponential. It doesn’t need the kind of the doctoring or the prod or the push to kind of say, Hey, use partners. [00:21:31] Amit Sinha: The sellers get it themselves, right? So we, we did this analysis and found like, wow, how can we then get sellers to activate? And the bottleneck that we found was. That there are not enough partner managers to assist every seller in the world. I think that seller activation is the unlock that AI can do. [00:21:50] Amit Sinha: Imagine if you have a partner agent sitting on every account and every opportunity 24 by seven, right? As the world changes, as the world evolves, as the solutions come in. As you know, market events happen. These agents are listening, positioning the right. One of those six partners, or all six partners for that matter, in front of people. [00:22:10] Amit Sinha: So I feel like that that big unlock is seller activation. Yeah. So if all partner managers do with ai, next is one. Of course, get yourself skilled up and yourself productive. But next, direct it to your own internal sales teams and get them activated on your partnerships because that’s where you will move the revenue lever the fastest, in my opinion. [00:22:30] Vince Menzione: Fantastic. What advice do you have for whether they be ISV partners or other partners in the room? ’cause we have partners of all types here. Yeah. What would you have, what would you say to them that need to do differently or better? [00:22:43] Marc Monday: Yeah. [00:22:44] Vince Menzione: Starting today, [00:22:46] Marc Monday: I, I don’t wanna be a broken record, but I would just say go faster. [00:22:48] Marc Monday: However fast you think you’re going, it’s not enough. Yeah. Um, the reality is I think Bill McDermott says like, the market’s never been this fast before and it will never be this slow again. Oh. The reality is this is the pace we run at, and the only way we can run at this pace is if we have the agents doing much of the work for us. [00:23:09] Marc Monday: So I would say go faster. The second thing I would say is automating a bad process is a bad process. So really go and interrogate the workflow that you’re actually thinking about identifying. I’ve seen too many instances from partners and partnerships where you’re taking a bad process and you’re trying to build automation. [00:23:29] Marc Monday: Go back and deconstruct it or start fresh blank piece of paper. Um, again, to my metaphor of the rear view mirror and the wind screen, like it’s, we should honor the past. We’ve done a wonderful job in the last 30 years of building all of this stuff. It’s just not built for this speed. So we need to really stay focused on what’s in front of us. [00:23:49] Vince Menzione: We talked a little bit earlier in one of the other sessions about the playbook and the three year plan, and then maybe moving to sprints. That’s right. How are you, how are you thinking? Are you thinking along the same lines? A [00:23:59] Marc Monday: hundred percent. Uh, we need to move at the pace. Sorry, I’m, we need to move at the pace that the roadmap is moving. [00:24:05] Marc Monday: So if we’re doing weekly, monthly, and quarter releases, we don’t wanna whipsaw the channel. We have to be careful of that. But the reality is, if we’re pivoting our product strategies or release strategies on a quarterly basis. We have to have that same level of agility. That’s where the people who’ve grown up in this profession taking really complicated stuff and making it simple is so critical. [00:24:26] Vince Menzione: Ami, you touched on AI’s role in the partner function. But let’s expand on that. What, what’s it gonna look like in two years? If AI becomes, will it replace the partner function? What, what do you see happening? [00:24:38] Amit Sinha: Absolutely not. I think, uh, we are seeing this evolution and, and you can see the parallels in the engineering organization. [00:24:44] Amit Sinha: When Claude Cursor came along, you saw engineering completely transformed as to how products are now built. How they are, how product managers write PRDs, how engineers actually code this, you know, code the scaffolding all the way to the user experience, how it’s tested. Everything has fundamentally changed. [00:25:01] Amit Sinha: So if you went and asked the engineering leader, how will your role change? Right? Imagine answering that question today, right? It’s fundamentally different. I feel like it’s coming to every function. Whether you want it or not, it’s coming to every function. And the partnership leader will look like the partnership operator that Rob talks about. [00:25:19] Amit Sinha: Yes. It’ll be about orchestrating real time relationships at the account level, at the opportunity level, and being a hands-on person. Uh, i, I would say even at the leadership level or down to partner managers, how can you cover the breadth of accounts and opportunities that’s out there to, for you to prosecute? [00:25:36] Amit Sinha: It’ll not look like I’m managing a partnership. It’ll not look like, Hey, I have to offer an MDF. It’ll not look like, Hey, let’s do A QBR, you know, and get all the teams engaged because that’ll be too late essentially. So this operator perspective is what’s gonna change just as it changed in engineering, it’s gonna happen in partnerships [00:25:56] Vince Menzione: perspective as well. [00:25:57] Marc Monday: Big plus one on what Rob’s talking about. I, I, I’m a big fan of that and I love this idea of using what’s happening in the developer world as an analog for where we’re going. Yeah. Um, I met a product manager last week and she was saying that she was producing 30 or 40 product requirement docs every week. [00:26:14] Marc Monday: Um, that’s remarkable output and she can only do that because of the way she’s leveraging ai. The same will be true for a partner manager, a 10 x, a 20 x, a 30 x on each individual once we get to that stage, and it will happen very quickly. [00:26:29] Amit Sinha: Yeah. Imagine putting a hundred joint account plans together in a day. [00:26:33] Amit Sinha: Yep. [00:26:33] Vince Menzione: Right. Incredible. [00:26:34] Amit Sinha: Imagine putting like five connections on an opportunity just surrounding your deal right now. Right. Doing that. [00:26:41] Vince Menzione: I couldn’t even, I, I couldn’t even imagine. I know you couldn’t even imagine when we were back in the days we were running PAMs and Yeah, totally. Those resources, what they had to do and what’s all totally automated today. [00:26:52] Marc Monday: It. It’s true, it’s true. I was, um, I was bemoaning this, I’ve been on the road a lot lately and I was like telling my wife, like, I long for the days where you have one meeting and you go, you know, you go to New York and you do a two hour QBR and you go to a nice dinner and then maybe you walk around Central Park. [00:27:06] Marc Monday: The reality is you’re doing a hundred of those every single day. It’s a different era. That’s where we need to get the tools to work for people. [00:27:15] Amit Sinha: Mark, I love your analogy around the rear view mirror versus the windshield. Mm-hmm. You have to see through the windshield. [00:27:20] Marc Monday: We do. We do. It’s amazing. Don’t be afraid. [00:27:23] Marc Monday: I, I mean, I would just say do not be afraid. Be excited. We in this room, get to lead the path. Yeah. It is an absolute privilege. [00:27:32] Vince Menzione: So insightful, gentlemen, you’ve been incredible to be on stage with today. Uh, I we have a le a little less than a minute. I was hoping maybe if there was like one question we could take. [00:27:42] Vince Menzione: I got John with a mic and then it’s lunchtime after this, so [00:27:48] Marc Monday: ask on because he can be more pithy. [00:27:50] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:27:55] Vince Menzione: Well, you’re both are gonna be around here. I hope [00:27:57] Marc Monday: we will be here. [00:27:58] Vince Menzione: Mark didn’t have you got to sleep in your own bed last night? [00:28:00] Marc Monday: Uh, yeah. It was a long day, but yes. I thank you for, it was very late. Thank you so much. Let’s put this on the record. Marks down. We’re having the event in Bellevue. That was great. [00:28:09] Marc Monday: We’re gonna [00:28:09] Amit Sinha: bring it back. We’re gonna bring it back to Bellevue. [00:28:12] Marc Monday: Seven mile commute is the best trip that I’ve had in many, many weeks. [00:28:17] Amit Sinha: Thank you. Well, thank you, gentlemen. It [00:28:19] was [00:28:19] Marc Monday: incredible. [00:28:20] Vince Menzione: Thanks for listening to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. If today’s conversation resonated, share it with a partner leader in your network. [00:28:28] Vince Menzione: Subscribe where you listen, and head over to the Ultimate partner.com for show notes related content and the resources for this episode. And if you haven’t already, now’s the time to register for the Ultimate Partner Live event in Reston, Virginia, [00:28:44] Marc Monday: October [00:28:45] Vince Menzione: 26th through October 28th. Until next time. Keep showing up in the rooms that matter because being in the room changes everything.

This week we're excited to present a recent conversation with The Samurai and the Prisoner director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, moderated by film critic Siddhant Adlakha. The Samurai and the Prisoner is currently playing daily at Film at Lincoln Center, courtesy of Janus Films. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/samurai In 16th-century Japan, Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) turns against Oda, the warlord he once served, and is besieged inside his own castle, where inexplicable crimes begin to look to Murashige and his frightened advisors like signs of divine judgment. As Oda's invading army tightens its grip outside and suspicion infiltrates the stronghold, Murashige is forced to consult Kanbei (Masaki Suda of Cloud), the cunning strategist he has locked in the dungeon, while his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his generals try to keep the court from devouring itself. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's stately jidaigeki—adapted from Honobu Yonezawa's best-selling, Naoki Prize–winning novel and selected at this year's Cannes Film Festival—is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director's characteristic philosophical overtones, bringing the winding investigations of Cure and Serpent's Path into a meticulously composed period piece about the manipulation of terror.

196  Six-Year Anniversary Reflections and CPR Considerations at End of Life In episode 196 of Hospice Explained, host Marie Betcher, a registered nurse and former hospice nurse, marks what she considers the podcast's six-year anniversary since beginning work on it in August 2020 and reflects on how it grew far beyond the 20 episodes she originally expected. She highlights a recent Facebook post from The Hospice Heart by nurse educator Gabby Jimenez about her brother's end-of-life and CPR experience, encourages listeners to read it, and notes plans to invite Gabby back after her prior appearance on episode 168. Marie discusses key considerations about CPR at end of life, especially for elderly patients, including risks like fractures due to weakened bones and low likelihood (less than 5%) of leaving the hospital after CPR, urging families to discuss these realities in advance. She invites listeners to share personal stories by emailing her. 00:00 Welcome and Disclaimer 00:29 Episode Intro and Host 00:49 Six Year Podcast Milestone 01:42 Gabby Jimenez Spotlight 02:37 CPR End of Life Realities 03:09 Risks for Elderly Patients 03:35 Making the CPR Decision 04:28 Share Your Story Invite 05:25 Closing Thanks and Subscribe https://cprcertificationnow.com/blogs/mycpr-now-blog/cpr-for-the-elderly-special-techniques-and-considerations   If you want to help, you can donate to help support Hospice Explained at the Buy me a Coffee link   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hospice  Hospice Explained Affiliates & Contact Information Buying from these Affilite links will help support this Podcast.  Maire introduces a partnership with Suzanne Mayer RN inventor of the  cloud9caresystem.com,  When patients remain in the same position for extended periods, they are at high risk of developing pressure injuries, commonly known as bedsores. One of the biggest challenges caregivers face is the tendency for pillows and repositioning inserts to easily dislodge during care.(Suzanne is a former guest on Episode #119) When you order with Cloud 9 care system, please tell them you heard about them from Hospice Explained.(Thank You) Marie's Contact Marie@HospiceExplained.com www.HospiceExplained.com   Finding a Hospice Agency 1. You can use Medicare.gov to help find a hospice agency, 2. choose Find provider 3. Choose Hospice 4. then add your zip code This should be a list of Hospice Agencies local to you or your loved one.

The Deep Cut team reaches a major milestone as Ben and Eli interview Deep Cut canon director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! The Japanese auteur generously answers questions about his latest film, The Samurai and the Prisoner: how does Chiyoho in this film link to Akiko in Cloud? Are the comedic moments intentional? And Eli finally gets to ask his most burning Kurosawa question: WHY ALL THE PLASTIC SHEETS?Special thank you to Ryanne Gordon, Benkei Golden, and Amaka Nwokocha from Divergent PR and translator, filmmaker, and artist Monika Uchiyama for making this episode possible.Get trapped in our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:18 Interview begins04:13 Social structures and Murashige05:47 Chiyoho in a man's world07:33 Plastic sheet09:41 Long takes and blocking12:47 Cinematic influences15:18 Comedic aspects17:02 Closing thoughts

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This week: SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world's internet within a decade, leveraging production facilities in Redmond. Musk also explains the company's data center ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial problem next to reusable rockets. Plus: we bring two Washington tech universe posters into the studio, 17 years apart. The 2009 original turns up gems including Boeing's unlikely connection to Classmates.com, a 1990s forerunner to Facebook. The 2009 poster also brings back memories of Teledesic, the Craig McCaw venture backed by Bill Gates that tried to beam internet from space decades before Starlink. Finally, the GeekWire Trivia Challenge returns, with a timely question about Google's origins. With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited by Curt Milton. Related stories and links SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company SpaceX earnings: Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver most of the world's internet within a decade Elon Musk's Mars illusion — Dominic Gates on the gap between the Mars vision and the timeline Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on pad during test; Jeff Bezos vows to rebuild Blue Origin's rocket blowup hits NASA and Amazon Leo as well Mapping Washington's tech universe New map traces Washington state's tech 'universe' to a few key hubs, and shows what's at risk The Washington Tech Universe map from WTIA, and posters are available here Massive map shows how Seattle's tech ecosystem evolved over the last 30 years — the 2015 edition The original 2009 Puget Sound Tech Universe map. (Thanks to Ken Myer for digging this up!) GeekWire's Seattle engineering centers list GeekWire Trivia The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a five-year hiatus, Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is back on the big screen with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, this time battling anonymity, a host of nemeses, and some arachnid-related changes. Adam and Josh have a review. Plus thoughts on the new doc Everybody to Kenmure Street and the latest from Pulse and Cloud director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, The Samurai and the Prisoner. This episode is presented by⁠ Regal Unlimited⁠⁠, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. Use code FILMSPOT26 to take 15% off. Filmspotting Podcast (Timecodes will not be precise with ads.) Intro (00:00:00-00:02:22) Spider-Man: Brand New Day (00:02:23-00:44:22) Filmspotting Family (00:44:23-00:48:35) Everybody to Kenmure Street (00:48:36-01:08:32) The Samurai and the Prisoner (01:08:33-01:12:39) Massacre Theatre (01:12:40-01:20:03) Credits / Releases (01:20:04-01:24:02) Feedback: -Email us at feedback@filmspotting.net⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠-⁠Ask Us Anything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and we might answer your question in bonus content. Support: -Join the Filmspotting Family for bonus episodes and complete archive access. http://filmspottingfamily.com -Filmspotting Shop for T-shirts and more.⁠ ⁠ ⁠https://www.filmspotting.net/shop⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow: -Watch Filmspotting on YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/filmspotting⁠ -Adam/Filmspotting: ⁠Letterboxd⁠ |⁠ Instagram⁠ |⁠ Facebook⁠ | ⁠Bluesky⁠ -Josh/LarsenOnFilm: ⁠Letterboxd⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ |⁠ Facebook⁠ | ⁠BlueskySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a five-year hiatus, Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is back on the big screen with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, this time battling anonymity, a host of nemeses, and some arachnid-related changes. Adam and Josh have a review. Plus thoughts on the new doc Everybody to Kenmure Street and the latest from Pulse and Cloud director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, The Samurai and the Prisoner. This episode is presented by⁠ Regal Unlimited⁠⁠, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. Use code FILMSPOT26 to take 15% off. (Timecodes will not be precise with ads.) Intro (00:00:00-00:02:22) Spider-Man: Brand New Day (00:02:23-00:44:22) Filmspotting Family (00:44:23-00:48:35) Everybody to Kenmure Street (00:48:36-01:08:32) The Samurai and the Prisoner (01:08:33-01:12:39) Massacre Theatre (01:12:40-01:20:03) Credits / Releases (01:20:04-01:24:02) Feedback: -Email us at feedback@filmspotting.net⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠-⁠Ask Us Anything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and we might answer your question in bonus content. Support: -Join the Filmspotting Family for bonus episodes and complete archive access. http://filmspottingfamily.com -Filmspotting Shop for T-shirts and more.⁠ ⁠ ⁠https://www.filmspotting.net/shop⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow: -Watch Filmspotting on YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/filmspotting⁠ -Adam/Filmspotting: ⁠Letterboxd⁠ |⁠ Instagram⁠ |⁠ Facebook⁠ | ⁠Bluesky⁠ -Josh/LarsenOnFilm: ⁠Letterboxd⁠ | ⁠Instagram⁠ |⁠ Facebook⁠ | ⁠BlueskySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Caller Questions & Discussion: Dr. Jill shares how her husband was recently ill and how she had to do a lot of work she normally wouldn't have to do. Each morning, she chooses gratitude. Our feelings, actions, and thoughts don't always align in relationships, but we can choose to do the right thing through mutual serving and submission. I live in Canada, and I have an 11-year-old son. I lightly slapped my son and once pushed him out of the way, and my ex called 911. Now I'm under supervised visits. How do I keep from becoming bitter? My children want their dad, my ex-husband with Alzheimer’s and anger issues, to live with me so I can be his caregiver. But I have serious health issues and anxiety too. I don’t feel capable of it and don't want to, but I'm a people pleaser. How do I discuss healthy boundaries with my girlfriend in a kind and balanced way? She’s from Brazil, and we're both Christians. I tried to set a boundary on French kissing, but she thinks it's no big deal. We were referred to a New Life counselor, but my husband gave up on couples therapy. How do I encourage him to go back without sounding like a nag? We're both very direct.

st Paul Mayor Her is probable a definite No-Go Zone. Let's put data centers in vacant urban office buildings. Is Amy Klobuchar one of us or one of them? Johnny Heidt with guitar news. Heard On The Show:Hennepin County sheriff threatened with federal charges over access to inmatesSt. Cloud stabbing: Boy, 11, arrested after attacking 18-year-old strangerIran says a deal with Oman to reopen the strait of Hormuz is close to being finalised – Middle East crisis liveSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a GTA VI look, and Google's brain drain got messier. Links Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (CNBC) Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model exploited a vulnerability in another third-party service during cybersecurity testing, after evaluations firm Irregular caused the misconfiguration (The Information) OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks (Wired) Rockstar says it will show an "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET (The Verge) Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role (Semafor) Sources: Google researchers are frustrated over compute access as Cloud sells TPUs to rivals like Anthropic, amid an exodus that now includes all eight "Attention Is All You Need" authors (CNBC) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.