Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Just Because People on Top of the Microsoft Pyramid Made a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Wealthy

   The bigger they are the harder they fall

   New

2. Links 05/02/2025: Kessler Syndrome and News Online

   Links for the day

3. statCounter: Monaco Now 7% GNU/Linux ("Proper")

   GNU/Linux, not counting Chromebooks, is on the rise

4. Many Parts of Google Lose Money

   It's quite apparent that many parts of Google - even some that rely on ad revenue or push ads - aren't profiting

5. European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead

   Should the officials over here or the European Parliament pay attention to these people?

6. IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure

   LLM slop might actually be more benign than Microsoft promotion

7. Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 05/02/2025: Learning, Madman Ruling a Mad Country, Back in Geminispace

   Links for the day

9. statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market

   Microsoft acts as if it's running out of money

10. Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Still Raising Money, Richard Stallman Contributes

    total exceeding $430k

11. A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles'

    It seems to be getting worse

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 04, 2025

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