Daily Tech News 22 January 2024

• What the heck is Broadcom doing with VMWare? (MSN)
  
  After Broadcom - which makes small boring chips in huge volumes - acquired VMWare for $69 billion, it laid off hundreds of staff, cancelled perpetual license in favour of subscriptions, and removed almost all product offerings.
  
  Why?
  
  As the article explains, it's because Broadcom only wants 600 customers for any of their business units. If you're not in the top 600 for that market, you simply don't exist, and your needs are irrelevant.
  
  The company made $14 billion in profit last year so this approach seems to be working for them.
  
  But if you're the 601st company on their list and reliant on VMWare, you're paying a lot of attention to competitors' products right now.

• The boycott, it does nothing! (Twitter)
  
  Palworld has sold four million copies in three days.
  
  
  
• NASA has found Ingenuity. (NPR)
  
  Not the abstract concept, but the helicopter.
  
  It's on Mars.
  
  Which is where they left it.
  
  
  
• An AI chatbot swore at a customer and derided its company as useless... After the customer asked it to do so. (Time)
  
  Yep. That'll happen.
  
  
  
• What is the solution to gridlocked EV charging sites? (Sacramento Bee) (archive site)
  
  Nope. Sorry. Can't think of anything. No way at all to solve that problem. Nope. Nothing.

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