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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2024

X In The Sky

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft's Revenue From rhe Desktop/Laptop/Device Market Continues to Fall, Now for Over a Year in a Row (This Time Down 10%, Income Even Worse)
    The media talks about "the cloud"
  2. Microsoft Logic: We Fired More Workers Than Any Other Tech Company in 2024 So We're Worth More Than Any Other Company in 2024
    not logical

    New

  3. The Great LLM Delusion - Part III: Vapourware as a Business Model
    Microsoft hopes that people won't grasp just how far back machine learning goes
  4. Microsoft's New President for Activision Blizzard Has No Background in Technology, Just Like Frank X. Shaw (Whom Microsoft Took From the Military for Propaganda)
    part of a pattern

    New

  5. [Meme] Even Former EPO Leadership Speaks Out Against the Current Leadership
    Even former Directors acknowledge this
  6. Former EPO Official Agrees With the Staff Representatives and Explains How We Know Patent Quality and Validity Have Collapsed
    Daniel X. Thomas speaks again
  7. [Meme] Poker Face. Show Us Your Cards, Microsoft.
    They tell you that mass layoffs (Microsoft is #1 for tech layoffs so far this year) are a sign of commercial health
  8. Links 30/01/2024: Many More Layoffs (Microsoft the Most Tech Layoffs This Year)
    Links for the day
  9. Cyber|Show Starts Doing Visual (Video) Episodes, Now Covers Fake Women in Tech
    Ed and Helen speak to special guest, Mercy Ageitu, about Fake Women in Tech
  10. Microsoft is Making Even Linux Full of Holes
    Microsoft's mission is to serve the NSA, not the community
  11. Fakecoins and Microsoft (Rallying Markets Based on a False Perception of Value)
    Microsoft share "value"
  12. If It Quacks Like a Ponzi Scheme...
    Microsoft "value"
  13. Microsoft is Chewing Up Passwords and Secrets, Where Are the Fines and Government Regulations?
    Microsoft writes the regulations
  14. It Is Not 'Misbehaving', That's Just Microsoft Breaking the Law Again
    Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too / Microsoft Edge has a data import feature that’s misbehaving?
  15. Microsoft To Sack Another 22,000 Workers?
    Unless this is fake or a hoax, today is going to get rather interesting
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 29, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, January 29, 2024
  18. Reminder: Microsoft is Already Laying Off Its "AI" Staff and Shuts Down "AI" Projects/Teams Completely, Recognising It's All Hype, Not a Future (Except of Debt and Losses)
    trouble ahead
  19. The "AI" Bubble - If Not an Elaborate Ponzi Scheme - is Bursting Already (Just Not Overnight)
    stating the obvious
  20. [Meme] How to Embezzle Microsoft Shareholders (Self-Inducing Prophecies)
    Microsoft faking it
  21. Links 30/01/2024: 'Call of Duty' Latest Casualty of Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (All That's Left is Overhyped Vapourware)
    Links for the day
  22. Wikipedia, Which is Sponsored by Microsoft and Bill Gates, Wants to Add a Code of Conduct (Code of Censorship)
    CoCpedia?
  23. Techrights Statement on Microsoft's Fake Results, Due This Week (Puff Pieces About "AI Revenue" Being Disseminated Already)
    fake news planted

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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