Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft's Debt Has Skyrocketed by More Than 15 Billion Dollars in 6 Months or 8.2 Billion Dollars in the Past 3 Months Alone

   The corporate media intentionally disregards - or merely turns a blind eye to - such data

2. Rumour: IBM Layoffs in Canada Starting Tomorrow

   "RA (IBM's term for layoffs) Coming to Canada this week (Nov 3rd)"

3. Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court

   People who try to cheat the system by gaslighting judges will end up discrediting themselves

4. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) by LLM Slop

   The Web has become such a sordid mess that this FUD made by bots is what Google News deems to be "the news"

5. This Month's Analytics Show Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up

   After pulling the plug on Vista 10 we see losses - not gains - for Vista 11

6. Almost Fully Caught Up

   The EPO series will continue very soon, maybe tomorrow or on Tuesday

7. Links 02/11/2025: Another Halloween Bust and MAGA Regime Says Public Universities Should No Longer Hire 'Foreign' Employees

   Links for the day

8. The Long-Coveted Milestone of 3,200 Active Gemini Capsules

   Despite being away some days last week, about 50,000 Gemini requests were served each day, on average

9. Five More Days Till Techrights Party

   We'll have many more batches of Daily Links as we catch up with a 'backlog' of news

10. Links 02/11/2025: More Nuclear Escalations and "Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism"

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 02/11/2025: "The Pragmatic Programmer", Perl New Features and Foostats

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, November 01, 2025

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