Executive Summary

Could you survive for a day without the Internet? One country plans to find out. Meanwhile, a city finds itself in hot water after secretly using analytics to profile its citizens. The old Oracle vs Google lawsuit is back in the news. A surprising benchmark compares linux performance on two cloud providers. And much, much more. See what happens when we take a week off?

Hosts: John Kresic and Mike Kresic
Running Time: 42:37

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