Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Claims of More IBM Layoffs a Week Before 'Christmas Week'

   Of course, as usual, nobody in the media says anything

2. GAFAM "doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in, humans just don't want to be free anymore," according to MinceR

   As many readers are aware, our criticism of UEFI (restricted boot in particular) attracted a lot of online harassment against us, including stalking and libel

3. The Register MS Has Just Been Paid to Promote the Ponzi Scheme Some More ("AI" Keyword Stuffing)

   This won't end well for The Register MS

4. Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM")

   Many Red Hat employees were pushed out and/or removed lately

5. EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public)

   Lying to the police in Germany is a criminal offense

   New

6. Wrapping Up and Ending "Slopwatch"

   An "end-of-life" improvement

7. Gemini Links 15/12/2025: How We Lost Communication to Entertainment, Dichotomy Between the Real and the Digital

   Links for the day

8. The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Microsoft Coverage and Add Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage

   Did Microsoft pay some more?

9. IBM Layoffs in India and IBM's CEO Spins His Lack of Market Share as a Strength

   If this leadership carries on, the only red left at IBM won't be Red Hat but a red stain

10. Links 15/12/2025: "Life in Prison" for Criticising China, Tikhanovskaya Says 'Pressure Works'

    Links for the day

11. Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux

    This is what Microsoft wanted

12. 'Crypto' 'Currencies' Are a Ponzi Scheme. So Is "AI". Both Destroy the Planet, Not Just the Economy.

    Believe it or not, millions of these GPUs just sit there boxed, unopened, unconnected, unused

13. Microsoft Colonialism in Africa is Not Sustainable

    Microsoft's situation in Nigeria is not

14. Links 15/12/2025: Chromebooks as Work Machines, "Americans [Who] Moved to Australia" to Avoid Cheeto

    Links for the day

15. Breaking Your Proprietary Router in the Name of "Security"

    Each time they "patch" the router something that previously worked OK is likely to just break

16. IBM May be Breaking the Law to Silence Staff It Laid Off

    Observation to add regarding IBM layoffs

17. Demonisation Attacks on Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) - Including Antisemitic Attacks - Have Not Worked

    Name-calling doesn't work

18. Slop ("AI") Will Replace People and Take Away Jobs, Say the Slopfarms With Fake (LLM-Generated) Text and Slop Images

    "AI" often means slave labour in a poor country

19. More Than a Million Bytes Should be Enough for Most Computer Programs

    Who said computing would improve over time?

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 14, 2025

22. Another "AI" (Slop) Use Cases Turns Out to be a Fraud

    Those who talk about this fraud get SLAPPed

23. They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on)

    Its biggest client is itself

24. In Russia, Microsoft is Already a Dying Breed Online

    A lot of Europe also dumps Microsoft. Europe is a big revenue source of Microsoft.

25. The Future of News on the World Wide Web

    No "greener pastures" on the Web

26. 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚: Proof That at IBM People Fall Upwards

    IBM is collapsing

27. EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work

    What's at stake here isn't just the EPO or the patent system

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