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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 04, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM Eliminating Over 20,000 IBM Workers by Year's End, Insiders Claim
    the layoffs are silent
  2. The Register MS Publishes More Word Salads Promoting "AI" Because It's Paid to Do So
    Hype, name-dropping, and scaremongering
  3. Linux Foundation is Plagiarism Hub, Linux is at Risk From It
    Torvalds never looked weaker and more compromised

    New

  4. Like Uber, Paypal's Debt Has Shot Up 2.5 Billion Dollars in 3 Months, Now the Mass Layoffs Come to India
    even reducing the salaries by offshoring isn't enough to save the company
  5. Microsoft "engineers who aren’t critical are let go" this week/month (silent layoffs)
    "stack ranking"
  6. Is Microsoft Trying to Kill What's Left of XBox by Year's End?
    How many people will still bother purchasing these consoles by the end of the year?
  7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 170 Out of 200: Downtimes
    Yesterday traffic skyrocketed here
  8. Gemini Links 03/09/2026: Google Maps, Gemini's Early History, and Suppressing Slop Plagiarists
    Links for the day
  9. Links 03/09/2026: Unsafe Skies, Thunderbird Adopts Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in Traps, "Xbox Live Down Again"
    Links for the day
  10. Growing Thirst for Free Software, the LibreOffice Edition
    LibreOffice is in "high demand"
  11. Links 03/09/2026: John Ternus Enters Apple Amid Mass Layoffs, Journalist İrem Delice Arrested
    Links for the day
  12. Stallman.org Down Due to Virtual Machines Issue, "Senior Engineers are Investigating the Issue" Since Saturday
    RMS site down due to virtual machines issues upstream
  13. Gemini Links 03/09/2026: Back in Japan, Another New Year, Reasons to Avoid Have a "Smart" "Phone", and Rant About Built-in Batteries
    Links for the day
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 02, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 02, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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