1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,720 [MUSIC] 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:10,000 Welcome to Log Level Debug, a technology news show that tries not to talk about AI and fails immediately. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,360 I'm your host, and I apologize for it. 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,660 Now let's talk about the news. 5 00:00:13,660 --> 00:00:18,960 DigitalOcean is sunsetting their open source credits program, 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,900 causing open source maintainers using DigitalOcean's cloud to scramble before their credits end. 7 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,600 But don't worry, everyone will be fine. 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,360 Open source maintainers are used to being treated like an afterthought. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:35,440 One group dealing with the predicament is the NodeJS build group. 10 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:41,640 They're the team who maintains the infrastructure for CICD pipelines, release benchmarks of NodeJS, 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,820 and also hosting the nodejs.org website. 12 00:00:44,820 --> 00:00:48,960 With their current level of credits, the NodeJS build group estimates, 13 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,480 they can run for about one more month. 14 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:56,0040 If they can't move off in time, I recommend the team makes a bunch of accounts and 15 00:00:56,0040 --> 00:00:58,0060 split the work across a ton of free tiers. 16 00:00:58,0060 --> 00:01:06,0040 A day after posting about the issue, someone from DigitalOcean reached out to the NodeJS team to offer more credits. 17 00:01:06,0040 --> 00:01:11,600 And to ask for help figuring out what version 2 of the credits program will be. 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,720 Not to add them to a program, to ask them what the program should be. 19 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,880 They're only helping a big project. Not yours. You're still screwed. 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:34,000 Anyway, happy HacktoberFest, the month-long celebration of open source software development that runs every October, for the past 12 years. Created by, a little awkward, created by DigitalOcean. 21 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:48,760 A week after Meta announced their cute AI agent Muse, OpenAI vibe coded their own product called Dots. 22 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:56,0080 A Dot is a cute little blob monster that you personalize with a name, like Buttface or Howie Mandel. 23 00:01:56,0080 --> 00:02:04,640 The Dot works as a personal AI agent hosted by OpenAI that runs 24/7 using their GPT-6 Astra model. 24 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,200 You start with a single primary Dot and OpenAI envisions you'll get more over time. 25 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:24,000 So that if you have an entire swarm, you won't even notice when one escapes containment, buys every ticket to a Taylor Swift concert, scalps them all at a huge markup, and uses the money to fund a government coup. 26 00:02:25,0040 --> 00:02:37,640 Amazon's CEO of AWS wrote one hell of a blog post trying to convince people that AI data centers are a good thing, and all you mean people should stop saying otherwise. 27 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:45,400 The post explains how four common thoughts about AI datacenters are all myths. And honestly, I agree with every single point he made. 28 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,760 I'm glad AWS is fearless enough to say so. 29 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,600 Myth number one, datacenters are taking all of our water. 30 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,760 Obviously we all know that's a myth. 31 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,520 It's all those children's hospitals being built everywhere. 32 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,160 We need to stop those. 33 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,0080 Myth two, datacenters raise energy prices. 34 00:03:03,0080 --> 00:03:12,0040 No, they don't. They just raise the price of electricity. That's not energy. It's lightning in a bottle. Thor's gift to humanity. 35 00:03:12,0040 --> 00:03:17,480 Myth number three is that datacenters create a huge amount of pollution. 36 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,160 No, they make a small amount of pollution very quickly. 37 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:33,000 For example, as he pointed out, the type of backup generators AWS uses generate the same amount of pollution as a round trip flight from Seattle to London when run for 10 hours. 38 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,400 Which is incredibly efficient because it takes a plane twice as long to generate that amount of pollution. 39 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:54,840 And finally, myth number four is that community members get nothing from datacenters. And this is the worst one. We get so much from data centers. Like water rations, increased electricity prices, and way more pollution than we could create on our own. 40 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:05,000 I'm glad AWS CEO Matt Garmin set the record straight with that blog post. And I look forward to seeing a similar post from Azure in the coming weeks, trying to one-up the crazy. 41 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:23,480 Earlier this year, Cloudflare announced a new service with Git hosting primitives called Artifacts. So you can build your own Git platform right on top of Cloudflare. To trick people into getting hooked on the service before pricing is announced, 42 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:36,280 Cloudflare is running a contest. Whoever develops the best new Git platform gets $25,000...in Cloudflare credits. Sorry just want to be clear. If you win they're not giving you money. They're giving you credits. 43 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:50,000 So if you're a developer mad that GitHub keeps having issues, and that's every developer, why not try building your own. I already have my idea, but I'll keep it a secret so nobody steals it. One hint though. Onlyfans better look out. 44 00:04:51,640 --> 00:05:05,000 Hey speaking of news from global glob.dev did you know we have a newsletter you can get news directly into your inbox every single week and for free just sign up at global glob.dev slash newsletter. 45 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:16,680 Microsoft has released a new match three style mobile game using its brand that's best known for gaming, Microsoft. 46 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:33,720 The game called Microsoft Jewel is their first new mobile game in seven years. So if you're tired of Bejeweled and just can't stand sitting in silence for more than 10 seconds, yeah sure try it out. It's free to play. And if you're an Xbox game pass subscriber, you get the ad free version. 47 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:44,000 These days Microsoft putting their name on a game is a good thing, because it separates them from all the Xbox layoffs and game studio shutdowns that have been going on. Good marketing Microsoft. 48 00:05:45,320 --> 00:06:01,000 The EU government's replacement software of Microsoft Teams is starting to roll out, and officials have some choice words about it. But no matter how positive you mean it, I don't think any software should be called a slut. 49 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:32,840 Cloudflare wasn't actually sure if their WAF is secure. So they made an AI agent try to hack it. What they learned won't surprise you. LLMs can iterate hacking attempts very fast. So Cloudflare tested their firewall service to see how well it would hold up if anyone using a frontier model tried to hack through it. With over 1100 hacking attempts, only 49 made it past the firewall. Or as most people call it, still hacked. 50 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,200 Changes from their findings have already made it to the managed rules, so there's nothing you have to do. 51 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:47,000 Cloudflare reminds everyone that a firewall isn't the only security mechanism you should use to protect your site, no matter how many Hollywood movies make you think otherwise. 52 00:06:48,560 --> 00:07:00,200 The US government is no longer allowed to use the phrase Artificial Intelligence. Please don't ask me why, we don't have the time. 53 00:07:01,0040 --> 00:07:06,880 US government agencies must now say SuperIntelligence. One word by the way. 54 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:23,200 As a result, people are on a buying spree trying to acquire domains with the .si top level domain. Please don't buy globalGlob.si before we get to it. We'll purchase it just as soon as we get our first sponsor. Any day now. 55 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:30,520 .si is for the country Slovenia. Who could make a lot of money from the sudden boom in domain sales. 56 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,000 And no one wants to be known for selling domains. But it could be worse. It could be for some cryptocurrency. 57 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:57,440 Amazon delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses while delivering packages. The glasses will map neighborhoods, take pictures of package drop offs, and prove the driver was not at fault when your car was crushed under an Amazon delivery truck. You shouldn't have left your car in the middle of that driveway. 58 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:10,480 Because Amazon will cheap out and on everything, the video camera on the glasses only work every few seconds. Think of it like a camera. There is a button that can be pressed to enter 'privacy mode' like when using a toilet. 59 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:17,800 But since drivers need to remember to press the button, Amazon is about to have a data set of Dick Pics that they can train an AI model on. 60 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,120 I have no idea what they'll use the LLM for, emphasis on 'large'. 61 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,520 But Amazon will find some way to make money off of it. 62 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:38,960 The company plans to have 5,000 drivers wearing the smart glasses by the end of this year. With over 20,000 by the end of 2027. There have been over 275,000 deliveries completed during the pilot program. 63 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:47,000 And while it's easy to assume Amazon will sell the data they collect as some sort of surveillance data, an Amazon executive says that was never the intent. But he thanks you for the idea. 64 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:00,520 Earlier this year the US government banned all foreign made routers from being imported into the country. Which is all of them, by the way. 65 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:08,920 As an American I can tell you we can't put anything together ourselves. IKEA is way too hard for us. Well, for me at least. 66 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:20,280 The hardware maker Asus just received approval to sell their routers in the US, and no one knows why. No one is saying bribes, but no one is saying it's NOT bribes. 67 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:27,0080 Asus is already using this in their marketing, saying they passed a 'rigorous security review'. 68 00:09:27,0080 --> 00:09:36,920 And again, no one knows what that means. Maybe a lawyer clicked a checkbox saying their devices meet a certain level of security. But I prefer to think, another bribe. 69 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:45,720 One of the requirements to be able to sell in the US is to provide a plan to establish or expand manufacturing in the United States. 70 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:53,000 When pressed for comment, Asus didn't explain what information they provided for that. But I think a bribe is a pretty good plan. 71 00:09:53,800 --> 00:10:02,320 And that's all the news we long to this week as a quick note we wanted to let you know that we're taking next week off. 72 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:08,160 If you want to make sure you don't miss any news slide up for the newsletter at globalglob.dev/newsletter. 73 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,760 If you enjoyed the show tell your co workers and if you didn't tell your former co workers. 74 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:22,360 If you watched the video, please like and subscribe and if you listen to the audio only podcast, please leave a review somewhere preferably not haunting my dream. 75 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:33,960 For more news before the next episode, remember to visit globalglob.dev for news, technology professionals really care about or you can sign up for the free weekly newsletter at globalglob.dev/newsletter. 76 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,160 Until next time, go twittles and bits. 77 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,120 [Music]