Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Keep the Pressure Up at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO

   Some of the information concerns corruption, not just "money issues"

2. Steam Survey Signals Steep GNU/Linux Growth

   the new (and latest) figures from Steam Survey affirm a trend of steady GNU/Linux growth

3. "The Mafia" at the EPO Now Attacks Staff That Points Out Misconduct at the EPO

   portraying the criticism as the real problem rather than the behaviour being criticised

4. Tomi Ahonen's Site is Gone, Memory-holed by Typepad's Shutdown

   They had people assigned to do books to rewrite history and pretend that this sabotage never happened

   New

5. "The News" is Sponsored and It Lies (for Money), It Even Makes Up Phony Rankings

   Many people exit IBM this month

6. Links 02/12/2025: Microsoft SharePoint Exploited, Openwashing Still a Thing, Europe Want a Seat at the Table With Russia Negotiations

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 02/12/2025: Kentucky, Resilience, Raspberry Pi Pico, and Efficient Route Metrics

   Links for the day

8. Links 02/12/2025: "Around 500 million PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11" and "LLMs are a failure"

   Links for the day

9. IBM's CEO Now on a Buzzwords Propaganda Tour

   truly ridiculous

10. Attempts to Censor People Are a Sign That Arguments Were Lost, Gagging the Opposition Attempted Instead

    no matter how supposedly "prestigious" an institution may be, it can still be corrupt and intolerant of criticism

11. Many IBM Layoffs Revealed This Week, Probably to Peak ("Last Day") December 4th

    "In recent years, Executives and Upper management is hired from business schools, these people have no technical background. Technical people became slide makers and meetings organizers, thus, mediocrity became the rule. IBM is at the end of the road, slow death and embarrassment."

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 01, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, December 01, 2025

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