VMware sticks finger in Meltdown/Spectre dike for virtual appliances

Blackrock bought 5% of Dell?

Blackrock bought 5% of company that is not publically traded? How did they manage that then?

Dell Technologies owns 82% of vmware. I really dont think shareholder revolt is going to have much effect unless Michael Dell thinks he has to go cap in hand to them for some reason.

As far as I know Dell has paid down $10Bn of the capital it borrowed, dont know why he would be paying down their loans while trying to keep a vulture like Blackrock happy (who I am pretty sure would just like to split dell into tiny bits to maximise their profit and fuck the company and their employees)

Disable the shell for operators

I've just read the vCentre 6.5 mitigation doc. It is to disable the shell on all non root accounts and disable the shell. Seems obvious really when you think about it and not such a bad idea.