Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Red Hat Layoffs Expected in 5 Days (Monday)

   "They will announce and proceed with the cuts on 08/11."

2. They Want You To Talk About Trump or 'The Other Bill' in Relation to Trafficking of Underage Girls for Sexual Exploitation

   Just something we wanted to say...

3. How to Quadruple Your "Goodwill" Value and Grow Your (Wall) Street "Value" From $152B to $4000B Without Producing a Single Successful Product/Service

   The longer it goes on for, the bigger the implosion will be

4. Staying Productive

   Two very reputable institutions recently told us they now reckon Microsoft is somehow funding those SLAPPs against us

5. 66 Countries Where More People Use iPhones (or iPads) Than Microsoft Windows, According to statCounter Data

   a list of countries where iOS now exceeds Windows

6. Windows All-Time Lows, Android All-Time Highs in Kuwait

   New lows for Windows can be found in many countries this month

   New

7. August Hits Microsoft Hard: Dead Divisions, Dead Products, Layoffs Again (on Week 1)

   Microsoft's debt is soaring

8. Slopwatch: Slow Day for LLM Slop, Serial Sloppers Still at It in Their Slopfarms

   The Web would be better off if those sites went offline

9. Links 06/08/2025: Substack in Trouble, Slop Sceptic Shira Perlmutter Seeks Emergency Injunction Pending Appeal

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 06/08/2025: Pinephone, Reverse-Engineering, and More

    Links for the day

11. Links 06/08/2025: Faked Values of Slop Companies and Government Bailouts

    Links for the day

12. FOSSY 2025 Conference Safety

    The GAFAM-funded FOSSY 2025 is over

13. Microsoft's Favourite Pay-to-Say 'Analyst' Firm Has Just Collapsed

    'Analysts' that helped propel Microsoft to fictional values akin to Ponzi schemes

14. Ask Google (Jeeves)

    What does Google "know", not know, or would rather forget (or embellish)?

15. A Blow for Patent Ambitions of Bill Epsteingate

    It's about money

16. Apple's iOS Bigger Than Microsoft Windows in Many Countries

    This ought to alarm Microsoft

17. The Mainstream Media Talks About Spotify Share Price and Price Hikes, Not Its Debt Increasing by About 33% in Just 12 Months

    Spotify isn't a company in good shape

18. New "US Editor for The Register" is 80% Microsoft and Windows

    they typically just treat Microsoft like the "Holy Grail" of "IT"

19. Microsoft is Apparently Sending Gag Orders or NDAs to Staff That Got Laid Off (“We were told not to post on LinkedIn. Not to say anything.”)

    The main lies we keep seeing

20. Richard M. Stallman Has Published AI Memos Since 1980 (45 Years Ago)

    Back when the term AI actually meant something

21. Gemini Links 06/08/2025: BitTorrent and Feedly Bots

    Links for the day

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 05, 2025

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