IBM’s outgoing boss Rometty awarded $20m+ in 2019 for growing revenue 0.1% Nice work if you can get it.
IBM Food Trust: Who’s using blockchain to track supply chain?
IBM has pushed blockchain hard for tracking customer supply chains, and touted marquee customers such as Walmart and Nestle. But it’s a big, hairy problem and uptake is slow.
I came into my office at about 4 am. Minnie had been closed up in here for six hours.
It’s now after 7 am. Minnie still hasn’t gone out to relieve herself.
I’m kind of in awe.
VMware is looking to rejuvenate again with a Kubernetes injection:
VMware today rolls out an aggressive plan to integrate Kubernetes with traditional applications (running on VMware vSphere, natch). I go in-depth on the news at The Next Platform.
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Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web?
The dark web is swarming with hitman-for-hire sites, with colorful names like Azerbaijani Eagles and Sicilian Hitmen International Network. They charge tens of thousands of dollars in bitcoin – but they are frauds. They don’t actually kill people.
What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About the Media:
much of the U.S. media still covers elections as if they’re sporting events and that the affluent New Yorkers who run and appear on television networks are not inclined to like him.
Corporate media sees Sanders and Trump as the same, which is wrong.
Trump is “a star of the corporate media who hacked its commercial incentives to his advantage, delivering free lively entertainment to cable networks desperate for programming. … Mr. Sanders wants to remake the media in a new model.”