Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Recruiters Don't Use Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use LinkedIn

   One of my best friends, a university professor, lost all of his life's savings due to Microsoft LinkedIn

2. You've Only Wasted Your Life in Social Control Networks

   In a sense, social control media is a giant delusion

3. 2025 Was a Very Bad Year for Social Control Media

   statCounter sees a gradual demise in Social Control Media access

4. Don't "Go Paperless", Go Paperful [sic] (for What Really Matters)

   Why should we favour paper use sometimes? Well, many reasons.

5. The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry

   we reckon that Google will eventually delist all slopfarms, recognising they're just a form of SPAM

6. IBM Starts 2026 a Much Smaller Company (Not Homage to Gerstner)

   People who get bluewashed out of their job (or bluewashed into unemployment) are gagged by NDAs

7. Microsoft XBox Having a "Dog Ate My Homework" Moment: No New Console Until 3 Years From Now... Because "RAM Prices"

   Who will ever remember this in 2028? Nobody.

8. Gemini End of Year Capsules Tally (Based on Lupa) Shows About 10% Growth

   What a difference a year makes

9. Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Chatbots Became Dishonesty on Top of Dishonesty (Hiding Usage of Dishonest Salads of Words)

   new article from CyberShow

   New

10. Fiji: GNU/Linux Has Risen From Almost Nothing to Almost 5% in Recent Years

    It's not as small as people are led to believe

11. Gemini Links 31/12/2025: Blogosphere is Growing and New Year Begins

    Links for the day

12. Complexity Considered Harmful: We Used to Run an Operating System on 64KB of RAM, Not 64GB of RAM (a Million Times More)

    "Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory"

13. Links 31/12/2025: Cheeto Pushing for More Wars, ‘Security is a Shared Responsibility’

    Links for the day

14. Enshittification of Postal Services Isn't Technological Advancement

    Societies that say the aim is to "go digital" and eliminate paper trail aren't advanced; they're moving backwards

15. XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over

    "the Xbox was never about gaming and merely served as a test bed for DRM in commodity systems."

16. Ahead of 2026 Mass Layoffs at Microsoft the Tree Gets Shaken to See Who 'Falls' (Resigns/Retires)

    "We had a quiet meeting last week about budget realignment. No one said layoffs, but it’s clear where the focus is shifting."

17. Almost 6,5000 Pages in 2025, Aiming Higher in 2026

    if we can keep focused, then quantity will increase

18. Gemini Links 31/12/2025: New Resolution, Reverse Hexdump, and Programming Languages

    Links for the day

19. Links 31/12/2025: Nvidia Faces Bubble-Bursting Moment, Saudi Oil Money Pumped Into Chatbots to Keep the Energy Waste Going (Circular Financing Again)

    Links for the day

20. Richard Stallman's First Talk in a U.S. College Since 2018

    Greetings from Georgia Tech!

21. EPO People Power - Part XX - Why António Campinos Chose to Put His Cokehead Friend on 'Sick Leave'

    EPO Cocainegate will be covered for months to come

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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