Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM May Well Be Laying Off Over 13,500 and Up to 27,000 Staff This Week When It Says "Single-Digit Percentage of Our Global Workforce"

   It's not yet possible to know how many people IBM gets rid of

2. Early Unverified Figures About Scale of Latest IBM Layoffs

   the real scale of the RAs will remain elusive

3. How Techrights Search Works

   Hopefully bots won't use it

4. Techrights Became a Lot More Productive as a Result of Attacks on It

   By default, it's safe to assume anything on the Web is garbage, especially in social control media

5. Unverified Rumours: IBM Cuts Will Continue Another ~10 Days, Managers Will Invite Those Impacted for 1-on-1 Meetings

   Right now IBM likes diversity because with adoption of low-paid demographies it gets to pay workers less for the same work

6. analytics.usa.gov: Vista 11 Scarcely Used, GNU/Linux Increasingly Dominant (Microsoft Loses "Goodwill", Depletes Cash Equivalents, and Debt Soars)

   "Total current assets" fell by more than 2 billion dollars in the past 3 months

   New

7. Slopwatch: linuxbsdos.com, Linux Journal, LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews

   Either Google doesn't care about the integrity of Google News or it deems slop to be acceptable

8. Gemini Links 05/11/2025: Affirmation, GnuPG, and While Loops

   Links for the day

9. Links 05/11/2025: Economic Trouble in France and US Bombing All Over the World Without Declaration of War or Congress Approving

   Links for the day

10. Red Hat Staff Also Impacted by Latest IBM Layoffs With Focus on North America and Software, Infrastructure

    After the bluewashing never expect to see news about "Red Hat layoffs", just as "Tivoli layoffs" aren't to be expected

11. Coming Soon: Part 4 About the EPO's Substance Abuse (Breaking Laws to Fake 'Production' and Profiting From Unlawful Monopolies)

    Notice how quiet the EPO's management has been lately

12. For the Record: We Never Named Staff of the Law Firm That's Attacking Us, Except the One the Firm is Named After!

    Just to affirm and be sure, I've used our new search facility

13. Links 05/11/2025: Medicare Privatisation and "Breaker Box Economy"

    Links for the day

14. Techrights Search Will Come Early

    Maybe tomorrow

15. It Seems Like GNOME/IBM Don't Like Women and When Budget is Limited Only Women Take the Fall

    Seems like a very patriarchal, GAFAM-controlled Foundation

16. "Last Day" as in "IBM Sacked Me" (Cruel Euphemisms)

    "The entire design and research technical leadership at IBM was laid off in the past year, including this round"

17. Shadow Crew and Ads Disguised as Articles

    That The Register MS runs articles that are paid-for fluff isn't unprecedented

18. Vista 11 "Market Share" Has Fallen This Month, Based on statCounter

    The US government's own data shows the same thing this month

19. This is How Mainstream Media, Boosted or Parroted by Slopfarms, Spins IBM's Commercial Failure and Mass Layoffs as "AI"

    Some say "software focus", but most just resort to buzzwords and blame-shifting hype

20. Resisting Misogynists

    Rianne has already added close to 100,000 pages to this site

21. Starting November on a Strong Note

    All in all, this month started well for us as we have good, accurate publications with considerable impact

22. Fake Retirements Help IBM Keep the Layoff Figures Down

    Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"

23. Cocaine at the European Patent Office Now a Subject in YouTube, Media Will Revisit the Topic

    "The Cocaine Patent Office" is no joking matter

24. Gemini Links 05/11/2025: "Wuthering Heights" and "Winter is Coming"

    Links for the day

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 04, 2025

27. 2 Days Until Site Anniversary Party, Search Likely to Launch Same Day

    We're now just two days away from the nineteenth anniversary of the site

28. Not Only Mass Layoffs at IBM But Complete Shutdowns "Amid A.I. Boom"

    apparently about 10,000 layoffs, not counting those who got pushed out by PIPs and other means

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