Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Another Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Comes Shortly. Microsoft Propaganda Sites and Slopforms Powered by Microsoft LLMs Already Spew Out Face-Saving Nonsense.

   Based on last month's leak, some very extensive layoffs are now imminent [...] Perhaps we can expect a lot of noise, some of it spewed out by bots, to distract from or belittle the impending mass layoffs

2. Ubuntu Becomes Microsoft GitHub, Based on Decision Made by British Army Officer

   You're hopeless, Canonical

3. Windows and Microsoft Causing Serious Data Breaches, Media Rushes to Blame That on "Linux" Somehow

   While selling us some rusty old propaganda about how moving to Microsoft GitHub (Rust) will improve security

4. Making Site Archives More Easily Accessible (Approaching 50,000 Blog Posts)

   Efforts to censor us have always backfired badly

   New

5. Microsoft Finally Admits That XBox is ****

   In this case, "enshittification" is an understatement

6. Slopwatch: Microsoft Slop, Anti-Linux Slop, and IBM Marketing Itself as a Slop Company

   Microsoft-controlled LLM spewing out garbage about "Linux"

7. Links 06/05/2025: Microsoft's Assassination of Skype After Years of Failure, Slop Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

   Links for the day

8. Links 06/05/2025: Changing Places and StarGrid for PalmOS

   Links for the day

9. Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part II: Hiding Behind Lawyers and Barristers Who Lack Standards so as to Engage in Classic Corporate Extortion

   They're trying to scare people and they misuse their licence to operate

10. Links 06/05/2025: LLMs/Chatbots Attract More Scrutiny (Getting Worse Over Time), PwC Has Many Layoffs

    Links for the day

11. Thanks for listening. How can this Morse feed be further improved?

    Right now any and all feedback on the audio would be helpful

12. statCounter: Bing's Market Share Lower Right Now Than It Was When LLM Hype Began (With "Bing Chat")

    If anybody gains at Google's expense in search, it is BRICS' alternatives such as Yandex

13. Gemini Links 06/05/2025: Failure and Proxmox Cluster

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, May 05, 2025

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