Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 29, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM is Already Doing 'Voluntary' Layoffs This Year in Europe ('Buyouts' Ahead of Mass Layoffs)

   IBM's efforts to hide or belittle layoffs is noteworthy

2. Like GAFAM, US Telecom Industry Has Severe Debt Problem

   Maybe their real problem is true profitability

3. Latest Example of False Marketing by Anthropic

   Like Scam Altman, they're better at buying publicity (paying for hype) than they are at delivering something of genuine value [...] That has the full make-up of fake news and a publicity stunt

4. IBM: From RAs to "Workforce Re-balancing" (New Names for Mass Layoffs)

   Well, "workforce re-balancing" means "RAs", which is a misleading acronym IBM has devised to soften if not hide mass layoffs.

5. Microsoft's Grip Has Slipped, Market Share Steadily Declining

   This is why Microsoft is having financial issue

6. SLAPP Censorship - Part 60 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption at Microsoft and Arrest for Strangulation is "Malice"

   At the moment Brett Wilson LLP has no new clients

7. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part VIII - "Red Line" When the European Patent Office (EPO) President Sleeps With Sister of "Cocaine Communication Manager" (Whom He Unconditionally Protects)

   If only management took its own words (idealistic pontification) seriously

   New

8. Tracing Back the Misuse of the Word "Buyout" to Describe Merciless Mass Layoffs

   So we can assume very large Microsoft layoffs are on the way, this time not spun as "buyouts"

9. Growing the List of Sites That Are Rogue

   It's very important to raise and spread awareness of which ones are fake

10. Links 28/04/2026: Uganda Criminalising ‘Foreign Agents’ and China’s Economy "Starts to Show Cracks"

    Links for the day

11. Anthropic and Claude Are National Security Risks Not Because of Politics But False Marketing and Vandalism, Plagiarism Sold as Innovation

    The slop hype is causing severe damage

12. Gemini Links 28/04/2026: Misfin, ELPiS, and Developing Another Gemini Client

    Links for the day

13. US Government Sites See More Traffic From Apple Devices Than Microsoft Windows PCs

    Keep this in mind when Microsoft talks about mass layoffs while calling these "buyouts"

14. Layoffs Versus Buyouts

    Microsoft has mass layoffs and those target the most experienced people in one of the best-paid locations

15. Aaron Hillel Swartz Would Have Turned 40 This Year

    Aaron Swartz killed himself in 2013

16. The Trumps Are Making Jimmy Kimmel More Famous and Popular

    Comedy has long been "controversial", but trying to get people sacked for the 'wrong' joke results in having no comedians or only pseudo-comedians who are the dictator's jester/joker

17. Links 28/04/2026: Microsoft's GitHub Upselling After Two Leaders Jumped Ship (Losses Pile Up), "Inflation Jumps," and More

    Links for the day

18. IBM Laying Off Thousands of Workers Again, Based on Q1 Earnings Call

    under the guise of "workforce rebalancing" we are again seeing that IBM plans to pay people (severance) to leave

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 27, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, April 27, 2026

21. Gemini Links 28/04/2026: Good Sunrise Viewing and Self-hosting from Home

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