Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 12, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM Layoff Rumours, Large-Scale Implementations Weeks Ahead (in March 2025)

   There are some people corroborating

2. Microsoft Blasted for Adding Insult to Injury: Workers Laid Off Without Prior Notice, Without Severance Payment and Basic Coverage (Like Health), Then Stigmatised as Bad Performers So They Cannot Find a Job Elsewhere

   Such stereotypes end entire careers

3. BetaNews is Still Publishing LLM Slop/SPAM About "Linux"

   Assuming it is indeed LLM slop, it seems clear BetaNews has no intention of improving or is simply unable/unwilling to improve

   New

4. Links 11/02/2025: Current state of the Internet and Smallnet Information Services (SIS)

   Links for the day

5. Conservative Estimate: Over 10,000 IBM Workers to Be Laid Off in the Next Two Waves

   The morale is low and layoffs are expected soon, with mass layoffs likely happening next month and then again later

6. Links 11/02/2025: Trade Wars and "Crisis for American Universities"

   Links for the day

7. Parasitic LLM Slop Sites Destroy the Ability to Find "Linux" News in Google News

   Remember that Google News laid off lots of its workers

8. Richard Stallman's English Talk in Italy Less Than 24 Hours Away (Torino) and Then Another Talk in Italy Scheduled (University of Bozen-Bolzano)

   He's active and he travels a lot in spite of his medical condition

9. Links 11/02/2025: Nutritional Poverty, Closure of USAID, More Fictional 'Valuations' Around Buzzwords

   Links for the day

10. Perl Programming Leftovers

    recently in perl.org

11. Microsoft in Africa: From 98% to Less Than 10% in Just 16 Years

    Microsoft being on less than 1 in 10 Web-connected devices in Africa is a very big deal

12. Almost as If MElon Reads Techrights

    The joke we started appears to be spreading

13. Gemini Links 11/02/2025: NeoVim and Deploying Other People's Code

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 10, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, February 10, 2025

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