Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 02, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The End of Red Hat

   expect many more layoffs soon

2. Only Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM

   2026 will be another tough year for Red Hat and IBM

   New

3. Links 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025

   Links for the day

5. IBM’s and Red Hat’s "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs

   Gerstner is still alive, but he's shorter and more arrogant

6. Designing a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG

   Static Site Generators (SSGs) - unlike all modern Content Management Systems (CMSs) - are so simple that extending them is easy

7. Links 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery'

   Links for the day

8. Firefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla

   Firefox cannot keep above 2% and hasn't been able to for quite some time

9. Ignore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral

   So what does Microsoft have left to sell?

10. Red Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes

    With some Red Hat staff "transitioning" we wonder if it's an HR hack, wherein they "reset the clock" on employment duration so as to lessen severance obligations

11. In 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau

    Palau now has GNU/Linux at steadily high levels

12. Microsoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026!

    Only a truly moronic company would design it that way

13. Another New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits

    In addition to our first one

14. Combatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare)

    we won't use or reuse slop images

15. A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency

    We'll do our very best to be transparent about everything that's going on, even legal matters

16. Gemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager

    Links for the day

17. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months!

    the FSF's Board now has 10 people in it

18. 2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat

    Red Hat won't fare any better than most IBM acquisitions

19. Microsoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus

    They're cutting budget. Soon they'll cut the staff.

20. EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts

    it'll be the demise of the Rule of Law in Europe and maybe a death blow to the EU (eventually), not just the EPO

21. Another Very Productive Year Commences

    "a total of over 17,000 pages in a year"

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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