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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2025

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Microsoft Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay Reported Hours After Microsoft Reported Weak Numbers and Microsoft Stock Fell

=> ↺ Microsoft Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay Reported Hours After Microsoft Reported Weak Numbers and Microsoft Stock Fell

Microsoft has a bloodbath this month

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Another Slew of Fake Articles About 'Linux' and 'Security' From Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com (Spamfarm/Slopfarm)

=> ↺ Another Slew of Fake Articles About 'Linux' and 'Security' From Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com (Spamfarm/Slopfarm)

linuxsecurity.com is basically a pariah and parasite. It lessens the incentive to write real articles about "Linux" by generating fake ones to outrank the originals.

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IBM: Many Thousands of Layoffs in 2025

=> ↺ IBM: Many Thousands of Layoffs in 2025

If 2025 is expected to be the same, then perhaps about 20,000 IBM workers will no longer be there

New

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised $422,000 (Another $22k in the Two Weeks After Campaign Ended), Proving That Truth and Justice Tend to Find a Way

=> ↺ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised $422,000 (Another $22k in the Two Weeks After Campaign Ended), Proving That Truth and Justice Tend to Find a Way

10,000+ dollars a week even without campaigning for more funds

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Faking Revenue Increase by Buying Your Own Products and Services (Through Scams and Scammers Like Scam Altman)

=> ↺ Faking Revenue Increase by Buying Your Own Products and Services (Through Scams and Scammers Like Scam Altman)

Is this what society deserves? Media that instead of exposing corruption has chosen to participate in it and profit from it?

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Links 30/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Causes Deaths, FBI Seizes Domains

=> ↺ Links 30/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Causes Deaths, FBI Seizes Domains

Links for the day

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Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Action vs Inaction, Gopherholes, and More

=> ↺ Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Action vs Inaction, Gopherholes, and More

Links for the day

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Links 30/01/2025: Microsoft Wants Convicted Felon to Give Fentanylware (TikTok) to It (After Making a Phonecall Asking for That in 2019), "Moving Away From Google's Ecosystem"

=> ↺ Links 30/01/2025: Microsoft Wants Convicted Felon to Give Fentanylware (TikTok) to It (After Making a Phonecall Asking for That in 2019), "Moving Away From Google's Ecosystem"

Links for the day

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Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM

=> ↺ Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM

LinuxInsider is barely active anymore

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Links 30/01/2025: Amazon Layoffs and DeepSeek Panic

=> ↺ Links 30/01/2025: Amazon Layoffs and DeepSeek Panic

Links for the day

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Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Chaos Reigns, E-mail, Searching

=> ↺ Gemini Links 30/01/2025: Chaos Reigns, E-mail, Searching

Links for the day

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Over at Tux Machines...

=> ↺ Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

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IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 29, 2025

=> ↺ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 29, 2025

IRC logs for Wednesday, January 29, 2025The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text. Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):Span from 2025-01-24 to 2025-01-301325 /n/2025/01/27/GAFAM_Hates_Except_in_a_Worryingly_Parasitic_Way_GNU_Linux_and_.shtml 682 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml 662/browse/latest.shtml 634 /n/2025/01/23/BetaNews_Plagiarising_Work_in_the_Linux_Space.shtml 606 /n/2025/01/24/Links_24_01_2025_Earthquake_Landslide_and_Official_Implicated_i.shtml 605 /n/2025/01/28/Links_28_01_2025_Against_Social_Control_Media_Smart_Buses_Ticke.shtml 552 /n/2025/01/27/IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_Rumours_Say_Even_Managers_Will_Get_the_Axe_.shtml 548 /n/2025/01/25/Bringing_Down_or_Taking_Down_an_Innocent_Man_is_Difficult.shtml 538 /n/2025/01/25/How_Open_Source_Became_Microsoft_But_It_s_Actually_Proprietary_.shtml 514/browse/index.shtml 512 /n/2025/01/27/FOSDEM_Talks_Are_Vanishing.shtml

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