Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Today I Learned That 13,500 Layoffs in a Single Company is "Small"

   notice how the latest IBM layoffs wave (RAs) is described

2. Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Have an "Industrial Action Plan"

   Sometimes this means going on strike

   New

3. It's Thanksgiving and We Still See Many People Who 'Leave' IBM

   Some people say there's another large wave coming in January

4. Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Explain Why They Might Soon Go on Strike (It's Not Just About Money)

   Two weeks from now there may be strikes

5. Slopwatch: Datamation, LinuxSecurity, and BetaNews

   We don't expect to see much slop in the coming days because of the weekend and the holiday

6. Gemini Links 27/11/2025: "Gallipoli" and "The Tomorrow War"

   Links for the day

7. Links 27/11/2025: Facebook (Farcebook) "Competitions" as Scams, Press Gazette Finally Realises LLM Slop is Truly Nasty

   Links for the day

8. Links 27/11/2025: ‘Welcome to the Slopverse’ and ‘The iPad’s Software Problem is Permanent’

   Links for the day

9. Investing in Speech

   Censorship avoidance is our latest battle that we invest money in

10. The News Became SPAM (More So Around Buy Nothing Day)

    Expect some more layoff news (like Apple and HP) to be dumped "out there" just before or during the holiday weekend in the US

11. What Happened to the Media and the Press?

    They say that you need to make the world what you want it to become rather than be passive or wait for others to do that for you.

12. Our Firm Commitment to the Courageous Whistleblowers of the European Patent Office (EPO)

    The more the public knows about the EPO, the more likely the EU (or national governments') officials are to impose a meaningful reform, seeing how and where EPO corruption manifests itself

13. "The deaf in Spain stays mainly in the plain"

    Earlier this week we contacted Spanish journalists

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 26, 2025

16. "The father of modern day engineering"

    RMS thought a compiler was crucial, so he and others made GCC, which is still very widely used

17. Things to be Thankful for in Free Software

    If one wishes to understand why GNU/Linux exists in the first place, one needs to consider what it was a counter or a "response" to

18. Free Software Needs More Activists

    With some activism maybe we can pressure Google not to tighten (all) the screws

19. Microsoft is Not a Skill, Microsoft is a Liability

    Microsoft laid off 30,000+ people so far this year

20. We Need Community-Run Distros

    even computers older than 20 years can probably cope

21. IBM: We Are "AI" and "Quantum" and Something...

    the future of "Linux" seems to be lots of buzzwords (every other blog post from Red Hat says "AI") and removal of many features lots of us still enjoy

22. Gemini Links 27/11/2025: Snake Oil Writing and KDE Imposing Wayland on Everybody

    Links for the day

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