Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. "Victory Day" - Part II: Abject Defeat to Hypocrites and Objectionable People Who Strangle Women Whilst on Microsoft's Payroll

   Someone is going to have to pay for this; it won't be us

2. Rust Propaganda Now Amplified by Slopfarms Powered by Microsoft LLMs, Encouraging the Outsourcing of GNU/Linux Distros to Microsoft/GitHub/NSA (and a Shift Away From GPL/Copyleft)

   Moving to Microsoft GitHub and adopting unfinished, untested code for highly critical bits

3. IBM is Rotting With "Zero Internal Jobs" and Many PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) on the Way, Typically a Fast Track Towards Layoffs Without Severance

   At risk of giving air(time) to tribal sentiments, the internal joke at IBM is that to IBM "AI" stands for "All Indian"

4. The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft: Seventh Wave of Microsoft Layoffs (Over 20,000 to be Cut) Allegedly Going to Start Shortly, Probably Start of Next Week, Microsoft Spreads Chaff and Noise Before the Big Axes Fall

   we might be looking at about 50,000 people that Microsoft gets rid of this year

5. GNU (and the FSF) Still Changing the World

   Today, in 2025, GNU powers almost everything

   New

6. Links 09/05/2025: Inflation Rising and Rights to Protest Curtailed Some More

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 09/05/2025: Good and Evil, LLMs Made the Web Worse Yet Again

   Links for the day

8. European Patent Office (EPO) Faked "Revenue Expansion" by Granting Loads of Invalid, Illegal Patents; Staff Still Wants to Know Where That Money Went

   Only about 30% of the EPO's patents are for EU entities/people

9. Links 09/05/2025: TeleMessage Blunder, More Distractions From Impending Mass Layoffs at Microsoft

   Links for the day

10. Military-Grade Anti-Linux Microsoft Propaganda Using Microsoft LLMs in Fake 'News' Sites (Slopfarms)

    This is part of a pattern

11. Links 09/05/2025: Analog Computer and First time at FOSDEM

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 08, 2025

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