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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

Conferences

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