No (or at least not automatically), but the cost of living of a location is always a factor in offered salary for the position. Even the federal government recognizes a location based adjustment for higher cost areas.

Of course, Microsoft could require all their employees to move to a lower cost (of living) area, but not everyone is willing/able to move, and that would mean losing out on some talent.

Juniper has been a viable competitor with Cisco (and Arista) for decades at this point. They did not need HPE, but HPE was willing to offer a significant premium to buy them to bolster their network offerings. As with everything else, this was about money and market share, and has little to do with national security.

The MAPP program has somewhere around a hundred vendors. The expectation that a hundred different vendors, with all of their employees that have access to the information, may not have a leak (especially when such a leak is potentially lucrative) is beyond any reasonable expectation. Microsoft has some hard decisions ahead as to whether to continue the program as it exists today (do they do nothing, or do they share less, or do they require all the vendors employees that have access to the information to have additional vetting, or do they start providing different information to different organizations, or ????).

Does that mean that it is likely New York will need to rescind their $15/mo requirement to keep receiving BEAD funds? I am sure the NYS ISPs are going to look hard at this new guidance.

Probably Meta stock options, that vest in 5-10 years, and that order of magnitude of pay is not way out of line with the current top talent in the field.

The current state of the art drones in the ware are using a trailing fiber optic link with direct control (so limited ability to remotely hack the drones).

Cloudflare, like all the big multi-national tech companies, follow all legal requirements in the jurisdictions where they operate, or they choose to exit the jurisdiction. And when it comes to shareholder value (stock price), that usually means that they will agree to anything to make a few extra dollars. As I recall, only Google took a principled position with one country (China), and the result is that Google no longer (in practice) exists in China. Apparently Cloudflare has chosen a different path.

What is the cost of electricity in Minnesota? While the cooling costs may be lower, if the price of electricity is higher, it may be cheaper to operate near Dallas (it is the total operational costs that matters, not just one part).

The more important question is what are the actual changes that are envisioned. "Change our approach to health care" needs to be specific. If you can convince the health insurers (and they are the ones that really matter) that spending the money for (regular? occasional?) testing can save money, you may have something successful, but you need to show savings (as better outcomes for individuals is not a priority to the health insurers, as it is about the money).

Oregon layoffs were telegraphed months ago. The only part of the story that is interesting was the exact numbers in the WARN statement.

It is a sign of a healthy company to have succession plans in place to replace senior people as they choose to retire. Now, the question might be, who is the Apple's board preferred replacement for Tim Cook? Is it John (Ternus) or Craig (Federighi), or some dark horse candidate?

The alternative implementation, sudo-rs, written in rust to be memory safe, is not vulnerable to these bugs, but that is because it choose not to implement those particular (not commonly used) features. There may be something about cleaning up code that has benefits. Who would have thought?

I want certs for 127.0.0.1 and ::1 (they are mine).

Prison calls rates have been a cash cow for decades to both the correctional institute and the telecoms that provide the service (estimated to be close to $1.5B). And as private prisons have expanded, money talks.

If you have the desire, and the money, go for it. I am missing the money.