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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we revisit the controversy over Starbucks' hybrid work policy for its new CEO, Brian Niccol; discuss the cyberattack that crippled computer systems at Sea-Tac Airport in the Seattle area this week; and provide an update on last week's episode about AI text-to-music generators.
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0:00.0 | One of the ways that C. Tack is trying to overcome this instead of digital displays they're using posters in handwriting. It's crazy. |
0:09.0 | It looks like a school project. |
0:11.0 | Yeah, what would be the onion headline? |
0:13.7 | Something along the lines of SeaTac puts out desperate plea for employees who still know |
0:18.3 | out of hand right? Hi and I'm Geekar Editor Taylor Soper. |
0:33.0 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around |
0:36.3 | us in business, technology, and innovation. |
0:39.3 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show? |
0:42.0 | We talk about some of the most interesting stories and |
0:44.0 | trends in the news coming up later on Taylor I can't help but talk about the CTAC |
0:50.0 | outage this massive cyber attack and how it's sent our major airport in the region back |
0:56.2 | into the dark ages. You've been covering this in and out, we're going to talk about that |
0:59.9 | later on. Plus the reaction to last week's GeekWire Podcast and our efforts to find a |
1:06.4 | theme song, a jingle for our My AI segment. I've got a quick update on a few different things that have come to light and that I've been doing since that episode was recorded. |
1:18.0 | But first Taylor, I want to talk about Brian Nickle, the new Starbucks CEO. |
1:23.8 | We did a special podcast a few weeks ago |
1:26.4 | about the new CEO, the former Chipotle CEO |
1:29.8 | coming into Starbucks and what it could mean |
1:32.2 | for the company in terms of its attempted |
1:34.2 | turnaround, but you saw a regulatory filing and this was something that a lot of people |
1:40.1 | picked up on. It was an SEC filing that disclosed Brian Nichols new salary and |
1:47.1 | that got a lot of headlines at first but you picked up on something else and that |
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