Shall I Compare Thee To A Drummer's Sleigh?

I spoke to The Register about Broadcom killing off the free version of VMware ESXi. Broadcom has really taken a machetes-at-scale approach to its VMware acquisition. I am left wondering what the regulators who approved the deal are thinking today. Broadcom has at least acknowledged that maybe some customers are not totally thrilled about all the changes lately and is trying to reassure them.

I also spoke to Stilgherrian for his podcast The 9pm Edict. In the episode titled The 9pm Artificially Intelligent Millipede Menace we talked about “panic, generative AI, millipedes, why Taylor Swift fans are so few in number that we need to create more of them using AI, smart toothbrushes, Elon Musk (briefly), disinformation, and the enshittification of everything”. It was fun.

Online design software Canva lost its CFO last week. Damien Singh resigned after online posts triggered an internal investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour by the CFO. Canva is hoping to go public soon. Well, not that public. It wants to sell some of its stock on public markets, not publicly reveal what its investigation found.