Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has More Reasons Than Cocainegate to Vote for Real Change in the European Patent Office

   This is about democracy and accountability in Europe

2. Within Weeks, Clownflare Has Collapsed Again, Time to Dump Clownflare

   It's run by amateurs who, even if you maintain your site perfectly well, will render it inaccessible without prior notice

3. Web Developers in the US Can Already Disregard Mozilla, Firefox, and Firefox Users

   "Last month, Firefox turned 21"

   New

4. Massachusetts Institute of Theft (MIT) Nowadays in the Business of Selling SPAM to Prop Up Fashionable Pyramid Schemes

   There is nothing benign about it, more so when they misuse the MIT brand to lend credibility to elaborate schemes or scams

5. Many IBM Departures Today (Last Friday)

   Way to go, IBM leadership

6. Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Need for Simpler Systems, Molecular Dynamics, and More

   Links for the day

7. Slopwatch: Not Much Today, Same as in Recent Weeks

   Google News got 'conned' (maybe willingly) by one operator of several (at least 3) slopfarms that trash "Linux"

8. On IBM: "More Layoffs in Minnesota Are Coming" (Unverified Hearsay, for Now)

   IBM is having loads of layoffs before the holidays

9. Links 05/12/2025: Openwashing by Microsoft's 'Open Source' Initiative, Unauthorised War Without Boundaries/Borders Waged by US

   Links for the day

10. Finnish Politician Aura Salla Says Finland Must Dump Microsoft, Citing Security and Control Reasons, Not Costs

    She says Finland should quit using Microsoft

11. Does This Pass the NDA "Sniff Test" at IBM?

    In many companies, those who suck up to management get ahead

12. Links 05/12/2025: Slop Harming Democracy/Elections, More Bans Around the World on Kids' Use of Social Control Media

    Links for the day

13. IBM Has No Layoffs, According to IBM, and According to the Media Parroting IBM

    Another day of parrots (losers) who call themselves "journalists"

14. IBM Will Make You Unemployed On Christmas Eve

    lists of people to cull

15. Cars Getting Worse and More Lethal

    Who will be held accountable?

16. To "Take Back Control" Start With Actions Against 'Tech' (Mass Surveillance, Mass Censorship, Mass Control) Monopolies

    collusion, price-fixing, a "cartel" of sorts

17. Beyond the Hype: Almost Nobody Uses Chatbots, Not Even 1% of Activity Online

    3 years ago when Scam Altman (Microsoft) acted as if Google (search) was doomed a lot of the press got paid to pretend this was true

18. Rumour That Another IBM Round of Mass Layoffs (RAs) in Preparation Before the Current One is Even Completed

    IBM still has strong brand recognition (because of its age and past might), but that won't last forever

19. Techrights Publication Pace to Increase Next Year

    one is encouraged to stay indoors

20. Upgrading the Site

    Debugging might be needed, so feedback helps

21. Why Microsoft is Panicking

    Keep advocating (or "marketing") GNU/Linux to Vista 10 (or Vista 7) users... there are still over a billion of them "out there".

22. The Fate of "Blockchains" and "Metaverse" as a Sign of Things to Come for Slop ("AI")

    Doesn't that tell us a lot about the modus operandi of these companies?

23. A Year After the Owner of X (Twitter) Performed Several Nazi Salutes on Stage the Germany-Based and Microsoft-Funded 'FSFE' Decides to Exit X (Twitter)

    Will the real Free Software Foundation (FSF) follow suit?

24. EPO: What Comes Next

    European media seems to have been sedated by soft bribes from cocaine addicts

25. Slopwatch: The Volume of Slop Has Certainly Gone Down a Lot Lately, Slop Image Providers Abandoned/Changed

    It's a big improvement compared to past months

26. Thousands Laid Off at IBM, "Last Day" Yesterday

    IBM is a dying company. This is a problem for Red Hat.

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, December 04, 2025

29. Gemini Links 05/12/2025: Espressif ESP32-C5 UEXT Module, Pixelfed, and the Web Getting Much Worse

    Links for the day

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