Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Walmart Vizio TVs Scream At Immigrants to Leave America

   Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

2. How Corporations Such as Microsoft Try to Crush Critics and Dissolve Activism

   Stay focused

3. Wikipedia Can Lower Its Hosting Bill by Going More Static, Not Just by Caching, But It Would Not Solve Its Biggest Problems (Bribes and AstroTurfing)

   For about 15 years we had a Wiki in this site

4. Urgent Need for SLAPP Litigation Transparency

   Microsofters really want to shut us up

5. On Shutdowns and 2,000 More Layoffs at Microsoft (10,000 Microsoft Staff May Have Already Been Laid Off in 2025)

   Microsoft tries to hide and belittle mass layoffs; its data centre business also flounders, so it issues puff pieces about some anniversary over and over again

   New

6. statCounter Sees Microsoft Bing at Lowest Level Since Last Summer

   Since 2023 Bing has repeatedly had layoffs

7. Nearly 5,000 Microsoft Layoffs Disclosed on Week of Microsoft 'Anniversary' (Media Noise), The HR Digest Says More Layoffs Coming

   more "Microsoft layoffs on the horizon"

8. Windows "Market Share" Down to 1% in Sudan, Based on statCounter

   Among those 1% who use Windows to access the Web fewer than 30% are on Vista 11

9. People Who Facilitate Truth Will Always Win at the End

   "Just always stick to the truth"

10. Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, "Cyber Security News" and More LLM Slopfarms

    So the Web has this bunch of slopfarms pretending to "cover" GNU/Linux

11. Links 08/04/2025: More Mass Layoffs Expected at Microsoft (Gaming), Fentanylware (TikTok) Unsold

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 08/04/2025: "Shared Ownership" and Rant About Scrapers

    Links for the day

13. Links 08/04/2025: Microsoft Shrinking, Oracle's Clown Computing Cracked

    Links for the day

14. Stolen Credit Card and LinkedIn. DHS Spies on Immigrant Social Media.

    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

15. At 50, Microsoft Has Over 100 Billion Dollars in Debt and Less Than 25% "Market Share" (Windows)

    statCounter basically sees less than a quarter of Web requests coming from Windows

16. linuxhint.com Died 12 Months Ago (After Adopting Image Slop)

    Zombie sites

17. LLM Slop Will Eventually Stop Due to High Costs, Worse Training Sets (Polluted Models Ingesting Their Own Junk), and No Real Returns

    This too shall pass

18. Courage is Contagious

    I became a witness to acts of great courage from EPO examiners

19. Gemini Links 08/04/2025: Gabbro 0.1.4 and Disillusioned With Social Control Media

    Links for the day

20. Microsoft Windows in Jordan: From 99% Down to 10%

    This is becoming more "normal"

21. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: A "Deep Dive" Into the Complaint at the California Privacy Protection Agency

    There are many facets to it and it may be the first complaint of several

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, April 07, 2025

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