Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 18, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Says Almost 40% of Staff in Rijswijk Has Membership and It Developed Close Relationship With the EPO Pensioners’ Association

   Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Monday, 7 October 2024

2. Links 17/10/2024: BBC Cuts and Myanmar’s Internet Suppressed Further

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 17/10/2024: Music Recommendations and Video Game for Casio PB-100

   Links for the day

4. Science and Journalism Abandoned in Favour of Public Relations and Fantasy (or Buzzwords)

   Inaccurate political surveys and AI [sic]

5. When GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time Highs So Will the Attacks on Its Leaders

   Even the word "child" cannot be mentioned anymore

6. 2024 General Assembly of the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar and Brussels (LSCMN) Presents Damning Evidence of the EPO Granting Illegal Patents, Then Conflating This Illegality With "Quality" (Speed)

   Report on the General Assembly of Wednesday 9 October

7. [Teaser] [Meme] Everything is Better in the Dictatorship

   Says the dictator

8. Gemini Links 17/10/2024: LinkedIn Nonsense and RetroChallenge

   Links for the day

9. Links 17/10/2024: Mass Layoffs Again at Facebook and Intel

   Links for the day

10. [Meme] The EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Organisation and Also Sponsor of Belarus, on Its Love of the Union (Not the EPO's Union)

    There is absolutely no accountability at the EPO

11. EPO Focus Today

    we're catching up with publishable material

12. "Microsoft is hiding losses

    New

    again" (Azure Collapsing)

    Microsoft is in serious trouble

13. [Meme] Buzzwords Are Free

    "We should invest in improvement"

14. Rumour: Yet Another Big Round of Layoffs Coming to Microsoft's Azure

    A comment was left there about 45 minutes ago

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 16, 2024

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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