Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. A Month After "End of 10" analytics.usa.gov Says More People Use Vista 7 Than Use Vista 11

   Does it get any more pathetic than this?

2. Techrights Protects Against Collective Amnesia (Forgetting History the Rich and Powerful Want Us to Forget or be Misled About)

   Keeping full access to our material with a good search facility is a priority for us

3. Mainstream Media Compliments Techrights on Its Work

   Google isn't "the Web" and this site isn't "the Web" either

4. LLMs Will Never Work, You Need to Type What You Know

   Voice recognition is too imprecise to be practical or really save any time if you can type fast

5. IBM Will Carry on or Carry Out Mass Layoffs Until Tomorrow, Based on Unverified Claim (Silent Layoffs Under Secrecy Clauses/Deals)

   Red Hat (as a "company" with a Web site) will probably never announce layoffs again

   New

6. Links 13/11/2025: "Fight for Control Over In-Car Technology" and "Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis"

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 13/11/2025: Disbelief in the Moon Landings and Doom That Came to Scrolling

   Links for the day

8. Links 13/11/2025: Ghost (E-mails) of Jeffrey Epstein Chases Cheeto, Uproar Over SLAPP Threats Against British Broadcasters

   Links for the day

9. IBM Layoffs Seem to Have Reached Europe

   Is it Europe's turn to fall on its sword?

10. A Lot of What's Left of the Online "Media" is Paid-for SPAM

    How much of online media can people still trust?

11. Synopsys, Which Controls a Microsoft FUD Operation (Black Duck), to Lay Off Hundreds of Workers

    Microsoft had plenty of layoffs this year, well over 30,000 in total, including at least two waves of layoffs last month

12. The EPO Has Spent Years Attacking European Media, Led by a Cocaine Addict (the EPO's Spokesperson)

    The EPO silences critics

13. Prominent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe)

    It seems like a case of the corrupt hiring the corrupt to bully those who speak about the corruption

14. Microsoft-Sponsored FSFE is Exploiting the Success of Jean-Baptiste Kempf to Market Itself and Its GAFAM-Funded Messaging (While Pretending to be "FSF" Europe)

    No doubt Jean-Baptiste Kempf accomplished a lot (not limited to VLC) in not so many years

15. A Week of Techrights Search

    Tomorrow it'll be one week since we turned 19

16. Your Computers Are Work and Entertainment Tools, Not a Fashion Statement

    If you're into fashion, find another job or keep cruft out of the workplace

17. The Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.

    If one counts offline (historic) instances, it's even worse than this

18. Under IBM, Red Hat Isn't a Linux Company, It's Sold to Clients as "AI Company"

    IBM is sacrificing Red Hat for Wall Street (share price)

19. It Looks Like Microsoft is Really Abandoning XBox (the Brand "XBox" Means Just an Online "Games Store" or Streaming)

    Published last night

20. The Register MS Has Just Taken Money to Promote Microsoft Windows Under the Guise of "HEY HI" (AI)

    Just 'consume' the ads disguised as "journalism" at The Register MS

21. Apple is Waning, Shows Data (Web Stats)

    Is Apple doing as well as Apple-sponsored (paid to run Apple ads) claims?

22. IBM is a Buzzwords Vendor

    Does anyone even pay attention to anything IBM promises these days?

23. It's Patently False That Apple Has Avoided Layoffs

    be sceptical of people who say Apple hasn't got layoffs

24. IRC.com is Vendor-Locked (Freenode)

    Web client

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 12, 2025

27. Slopwatch: Spam, Scams, and Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems (LLMs)

    The way things are going, LinuxSecurity might become entirely inactive

28. IBM "Trying to Memory Hole the RA With Positive News."

    it's clear they have no real plan, just vapourware

29. Gemini Links 13/11/2025: Pictures From the Aurora and Cryptography of the Internet

    Links for the day

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