Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Laid Off Several Thousands of Workers (Not Counting Those Driven Out) in 3+ Waves of Layoffs in 2 Months in 2025

   About a thousand workers laid off per month

2. Microsoft Reduced to Almost Nothing in the Congos

   Even worse for Microsoft in DRC (Democratic Republic Of The Congo)

3. Rumour: After FSF Abandons Office in Boston LibrePlanet Will Also Leave Boston

   In the past, Libreplanet (or LibrePlanet) was 'branched' out of MIT to "lesser" universities in the same city

4. linuxsecurity.com is 100% Slopfarm, Nonstop Fake 'Articles' About Security and "Linux"

   More than one fake 'author' participates in this, so it deserves condemnation

5. Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part III - Foreign Interference and Chaff/Flare

   Why would you trust alleged 'communication' (platforms) controlled by the same people who cut your undersea cables?

6. [Video] Richard Stallman Explains What Intelligence in Computing Really Means and How Old That Is (Story About 1975, 50 Years Ago)

   Uploaded 11 hours ago by Manuel Cuda News

   New

7. Why We No Longer Hear About "Red Hat Layoffs"

   Sometimes they don't call them "layoffs" are all; it's just PIPs, RTO, and "relocation" offers. They try to compel people to resign/retire

8. Reputation is Not a Human Right, It's Something One Earns

   One can also lose one's reputation for harming women

9. FreeBSD Foundation is Trying to Improve "Laptop Support", But It Has Outsourced Everything to Microsoft Proprietary Software

   Despite many valid alternatives existing and fast maturing

10. Links 06/03/2025: Discord Wants the Public to Pay for Losses, MongoDB Shares Collapse

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 06/03/2025: Remaking Sites, Gemini Capsule Turns 5

    Links for the day

12. Links 06/03/2025: Trade Wars, Trademarks, Attacks on (and by) the Media, Digg to Relaunch

    Links for the day

13. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The Problems Are Much Bigger Than the Rigged Elections

    It's not only about elections

14. Dr. Andy Farnell on Brutality and (or of) Brute-Force Computing

    "Understandably, the ecological cost of compute was never really on the minds of pure computer scientists"

15. IBM Absorbs More of Red Hat and There Are Several Layoff Rumours

    Those are just rumours for now

16. Gemini Links 06/03/2025: Digg, Project Failure, and More

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 05, 2025

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