Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms

   Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes

2. Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes

   Linus Torvalds should have known better

3. IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months

   Route towards insolvency, not just irrelevancy

   New

4. IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee

   Seems like IBM is run by fools

5. Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."

   Links for the day

6. Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming

   Links for the day

8. They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst

   We already wrote about it twice this morning

9. UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died'

   This is the typical trajectory of slopfarms

10. LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users

    It's not possible to know the number of users LibreWolf has

11. The Year of the New Dark Age

    Something isn't right

12. Slopwatch May be Doomed

    Slop isn't changing the world, certainly not in a good way anyway

13. BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots

    The company that took over apparently tries to "monetise" the domain with slop

14. Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today

    Final versions of the EPO Administrative Council photo gallery

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, December 08, 2025

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