Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 01, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft Has Hundred of Layoffs Again, Same Week as the Company's Fake Results

   those people were in effect Microsoft employees, just classified as contractors

   New

2. Sirius Open Source in Court

   I personally was a witness and an alibi

3. Gemini Turns 6 Soon, Still Growing

   Will we see 3,050 before Gemini turns 6 in summer?

4. Richard Stallman Re-Confirmed by the Free Software Foundation

   as expected

5. Links 30/04/2025: Pakistan-India Tensions Grow, Facebook Banning Publishers Before Elections

   Links for the day

6. Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon

   Censorship typically leads to additional (new) issues

7. Links 30/04/2025: Censorship in the Guise/Clothing of "Combatting Deepfakes", Mass Surveillance Increasingly Framed as Catchphrase "AI"

   Links for the day

8. Why Techrights Attracts SLAPPs From American Microsofters Who Literally Strangle Women and Rely on the Most Unscrupulous Law Firms

   "the SLAPPs targeted at TR [Techrights] shows that Orwell was right: Journalism is about exposure, everything else are PubRels."

9. The Problem at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Is Vastly Bigger Than Its Rigged Elections

   Elections and election-rigging at the OSI are a symptom

10. IBM Allegedly to Sell More Parts of the Company While Outsourcing to India, Microsoft Now Goes After Unions

    They both have cash and debt problems

11. Slopwatch: Google Noise ("News"), Linux Security (Slopfarm), and BetaNoise (Serial Slopper)

    Today there's no lack of LLM slop

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 29, 2025

14. Links 30/04/2025: "Brian Lumley’s Necroscope Series" and "Death In The Afternoon"

    Links for the day

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