Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Apparently Confirmed: IBM Layoffs in Canada Today, Hundreds Affected

   Impacting "177 people", says one person, "in Ottawa"

2. [Video] Dr. Richard Stallman's Keynote Speech in Kerala Finally Uploaded

   In non-free format and proprietary YouTube, but perhaps that's better than nothing

   New

3. Links 27/03/2025: Obituary to a Shop, Russia Trying to Buy Time

   Links for the day

4. Links 27/03/2025: Slop, Autosuggestions, and Nostr

   Links for the day

5. When Windows Was Dominant (1990s) Browser Monopoly Meant MSIE, But Now Google Android is Dominant and the Web in a 'Webapps' Era Works With (or Is Designed for) Chrome-isms

   We've been there before

6. Slopwatch: BetaNews, LinuxSecurity.com, and the Attack on Web Search Using Fake and Likely Plagiarised Pages

   Changing a few words here and there won't change the fact that it's not properly authored

7. Links 27/03/2025: U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High, Legal Occupation Next in Line After War on Science

   Links for the day

8. Using Courts for 'Revenge' is Always a Losing Strategy

   Trying to cause someone you dislike to spend a lot of money

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

    Android has had a very strong year

11. EPO Management Fails to Deny That the Office is Discriminating Against Women

    Europe's second-largest institution isn't just exceedingly corrupt but also immoral

12. In Some Countries the Market Share of Vista 11 is Going Down, Not Up

    despite being released in 2021

13. Rumour: Mass Layoffs in IBM Canada Today

    Maybe later today some people from Canada will say something firmer and maybe some media will even talk about that

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 26, 2025

16. Gemini Links 27/03/2025: X-Files' "Kill Switch", Orlando, and ASN (Autonomous System Number) 'Hack'

    Links for the day

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