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  6. Slopwatch: BetaNews, LinuxSecurity.com, and the Attack on Web Search Using Fake and Likely Plagiarised Pages
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  7. Links 27/03/2025: U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High, Legal Occupation Next in Line After War on Science
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  8. Using Courts for 'Revenge' is Always a Losing Strategy
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  9. IBM CFO James Kavanaugh Refers to Firing of Almost 10,000 Americans as "Workforce Rebalancing" (Shifting IBM's Centre of Balance to Low-salary Contracts/Countries)
    The scale of IBM layoffs is getting too large to evade WARN Notices
  10. Islands Are Leaving Microsoft Behind, According to statCounter
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  11. EPO Management Fails to Deny That the Office is Discriminating Against Women
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  12. In Some Countries the Market Share of Vista 11 is Going Down, Not Up
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  13. Rumour: Mass Layoffs in IBM Canada Today
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