Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. IBMers Impacted by the Mass Layoffs (Which IBM Tries Not to Talk About) Are Livid as the CEO "Spends 11 Billion He Doesn’t Have"

   IBM dooms both its brand and its future

2. Consumerism and Christmas

   Many of us yearn for prior decades when December was about family, not shopping

3. OpenAI Traffic Collapsing (for 3 Months in a Row About 20% Down Per Month), Bankruptcy Likely Soon

   How much time has OpenAI got before its massive debt is too much for anyone to shoulder or bear?

4. IBM + NDA = Laid Off Workers Saying "Thank You" for the Layoffs

   The important thing is, for now, more people become aware of it

   New

5. 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux

   what 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' is

6. Links 08/12/2025: Cambodia-Thailand Air Raids, Japan/China Military Incident

   Links for the day

7. The "Cut 10,000 Jobs" Clickbait and Microsoft Sites Now Speculating That Microsoft CEO Has Just Signalled More Mass Layoffs

   by our tally, Microsoft had more than 30,000 layoffs this year, not 15,000

8. Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect

   State actors and Microsoft prefer it that way

9. Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs

   A decade ago someone asked RMS (Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement) to send a screenshot

10. Monsieur Claude Sahl, Part of the Administrative Council of the EPO (Which Fails to Administer the EPO), Has Been There For Over 30 Years

    They have basically built themselves a very expensive palace in Bavaria (Germany), in which to grant European monopolies to billionaires and companies that aren't even European

11. Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity)

    Based on what I heard and spoke about with journalists, they accept there is a substance abuse problem at the EPO's management

12. Links 08/12/2025: "Leaving Intel" (Exodus Continues) and Ways "to Civilize Digital Life"

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 08/12/2025: Earbuds and Offline 'Smartphones'

    Links for the day

14. Books About Bubbles

    calling things "AI" and "AIs" can mislead the reader

15. Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, December 07, 2025

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