Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Rumour Was True, Mass Layoffs at IBM Today

   How widespread the layoffs are (or how they're disguised, e.g. PIPs) is hard to assess

   New

2. Akira Urushibata on How Grokipedia Fails to Work

   The Grokipedia article gives the wrong character for the "Ko" on "Koan"

3. Links 03/11/2025: Data Breaches, Wars, and Digital Censorship

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Poetry, Old Androids and Small Shells

   Links for the day

5. Links 03/11/2025: Internet Anniversary

   Links for the day

6. Two Years of Uptime

   Reboots are seldom involuntary

7. Richard Stallman is Giving Another Talk in Less Than a Fortnight

   in two weeks' time (13 days from now)

8. Windows Falls Below 20% in the UK

   Many people choose to leave Windows altogether

9. Microsoft's Search Business Falls to Lowest Point in 2 Years, Based on statCounter

   what can Microsoft sell other than shares in Microsoft?

10. Evidence Regarding Layoffs at Red Hat

    Seems like IBM layoffs

11. Microsoft: Our "Goodwill" Value Grew More Than Tenfold Since 2011

    Hallmark of pseudo-economics

12. GNU/Linux as a Boarding Pass

    being mostly analogue is still feasible

13. Links 03/11/2025: Lack of Trust in LLMs and Windows TCO at Jaguar

    Links for the day

14. Gemini Links 03/11/2025: Books in October and Change

    Links for the day

15. Mozilla Firefox Won't Survive and Many Sites Don't Work With It (Compatibility Abandoned)

    The Web has become monocultural

16. Debian is Non-Free

    Devuan might be worth looking into

17. Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli and LinuxSecurity

    This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots

18. Four Reasons to Party With Us in Four Days, Celebrating the Four Freedoms

    Today we expect to be back to a more-or-less regular publication pace

19. Links 03/11/2025: The "Smartphone Panopticon" and Belarus' Hybrid Attacks on EU Intensify

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, November 02, 2025

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