Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopfarms About the "Linux CEO" Linus Torvaldos [sic]

   nowadays NVIDIA builds and helps build a giant Ponzi scheme

2. IBM Layoffs in India, More Coming Soon, Say Apparent Insiders

   Threads regarding IBM layoffs

   New

3. Slopfarm: Firing 35,000 Employee is "Saving the Company"

   "Big Blue" is getting smaller all the time

4. Vista 11 is "10" (Ten Percent)

   Some months ago Microsoft openly admitted that it had lost (shed off) hundreds of millions of Windows users

5. Dealing With Online Pogroms

   lawfare funded by third parties

6. The Year Apple Would Rather Forget

   We await further stumbles and falls from Apple (in 2026)

7. "EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights"

   This is really sad for those of us who spent decades promoting and boosting/advocating the EU

8. Gemini Links 29/12/2025: Earlier "Happy New Year 2026" and "Dead Archivist Society"

   Links for the day

9. Links 29/12/2025: Putin Critic Sergei Udaltsov Imprisoned, Cloudflare’s Outages Discussed

   Links for the day

10. LLMs Are Inherently Parasitic, We Need to Treat Them Accordingly

    a maintenance burden for those who possess actual intelligence

11. Links 29/12/2025: Bottled Water Considered Harmful, Cheetos Promoting Nazis in Europe

    Links for the day

12. EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads"

    To what length/s will German authorities and media (not just in Germany) go to protect the EPO's "precious image"?

13. What IBM Will Do to Red Hat in the Coming Year or Years

    This won't end up well for GNU/Linux as a whole

14. Not Turning in His Grave: When People Die, Their Corporate Destruction Becomes a "Turnaround"

    All he did was mass layoffs - a tradition that has not ended since then

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 28, 2025

17. Louis Gerstner Has Died, His Legacy of Mass Layoffs at IBM Hasn't

    Hagiographies will follow. They will say he "saved" IBM.

18. Links 29/12/2025: The Sunday Routine, Limits of Memory, and Gemini Vocabulary

    Links for the day

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