Software Defined Talk
Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer
29 May 2026 1:01:10 Software Defined Talk LLC
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This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos.
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Runner-up Titles
- We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.
- Go easy on the AI
- I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican
- I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope
- I should take more showers
- I came to measure and chew bubblegum
- Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.
- Usability golf
- No dependencies, no problems
- Peak Software
- We are a safe haven for measures
- Tools and Rules
Rundown
- Layoffs
- How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
- How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI
- Revenue and IPO
- Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
- OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
- SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.
- GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
- NHS Pulls OSS
- Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog
Relevant to your Interests
- Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
- Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
- SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
- Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
- Microsoft admits forcing the floating Copilot button on Office users was a mistake—but engagement went up anyway
- IBM and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce America’s First Purpose-Built Quantum Foundry, Supported by Proposed $1 Billion CHIPS Award
- Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
- [Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity](https://www.edgeir.com/blackstone-and-google-launch-5b-tpu-cloud-venture-with-500mw-of-ai-capacity-20260525#:~:text=Blackstone%20and%20Google%20are%20forming,Tensor%20Processing%20Units%20(TPUs)
- What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks
- U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
- Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
- Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
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Nonsense
- GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished
- Watch: Drones crash into water after Sydney light show malfunction
- America the Tasty: The Best Breakfast in Every State
Listener Feedback
- Jason built the DepartTime App iPhone App
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