25 September 2023 Cisco buying Splunk, Microsoft continues to suck at cloud security, and Unity tries to unshoot its foot. Terraform fork OpenTofu gets a home, Instacart IPOs and the Arm IPO was pricey to pull off. Intel says the future is glass, and chiplets arrive in December. The ICC gets hacked, and MGM says its hack is over but it wasn't pretty while it lasted. Long reads on why editing text on your phone sucks and adventures in plumbing. My column is on the distractions of data and the...