Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 05, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Azure Laying Off Thousands, Not Hundreds!

   1,500 layoffs in Azure alone

2. [Meme] Future of IBM/Red Hat

   Red Hat: our future is partnering with this Microsoft thing where there have been mass layoffs every year since 2020

   New

3. Links 04/06/2024: Suppression in China Amid Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, EU Cracking Down on Encryption

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: New Feed Reader and Upcoming Closure of Chess Over Gemini

   Links for the day

5. Microsoft Laid Off About 20,000 Workers in 2023, Not 10,000 Like the Media Likes to Say (Also Not Counting Temps and Contractors)

   face-saving spin

6. Links 04/06/2024: Water Shortages and Attacks on Power Plants

   Links for the day

7. [Meme] Faking Azure 'Demand'

   The bubble is imploding

8. Last Month the Media Said Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Would Resume in July, Based on Sources. More People Say the Same This Month.

   When Microsoft said it would lay off about 2,000 people in the gaming division (and shut down whole studios) some corporate media cited sources claiming that the bloodbath would follow two months later - i.e. in July

9. Microsoft's Windows Down to Single-Digit Market Share (Less Than 10%) in About 18 Countries in Africa

   According to statCounter data

10. GNU/Linux Has Become a Lot More Mainstream

    it seems clear that the Developing World is adopting software developers

11. Debian.ie (Ireland) is With Daniel Pocock ('Whack-a-Mole' at WIPO Just Doesn't Work)

    Microsofters pondered aloud about doing the same toTechrights

12. Voting for Debian Developer Daniel Pocock in Ireland This Week

    Voting day is Friday

13. Correcting the Term "Former" Debian Developer (or Emeritus Debian Developer)

    As it turns out, there's a complication associated with this term

14. 'Stochastic Parrots' (a Term Coined by Timnit Gebru) Have Failed Microsoft and Now There Are Mass Layoffs in What Microsoft Repeatedly Dubbed a Strategic Growth Area

    Meanwhile, Microsoft is over 100 billion dollars in debt

15. Phoronix Classifieds

    one job opening as "newsworthy"?

16. [Meme] Attack the Messenger (the Author, Publisher)

    Never mind if what's reported is factual

17. Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in Africa GNU/Linux Surges in Usage

    it's up to 3.9%

18. Mass Layoffs in Microsoft Azure Again, for the Fourth Year in a Row

    Thousands laid off again

19. Links 03/06/2024: Spacecraft on the Moon, Tiananmen Square Censorship Ramping Up

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 04/06/2024: Canon Construction, Coming Out, Abandoning Mobile Phones, and Microsoft's Anti-GPL Plagiarism

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 03, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, June 03, 2024

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