Fishing for information about IBM layoffs is hard. That's because the media is dealing with "flooded zones" (lots of media ...

Tomorrow at 5PM (CET) RMS will talk at the Poliecnico di Torino, more specifically Sala Ciminiera of the Department of Computer Engineering. "The nearest street entrance to reach Sala Ciminiera is at ...

Get well soon, World Wide Web. Remember that Google News laid off lots of its workers. If Google News is understaffed and a result it gives rise to plagiarism (LLM slop), fewer people will still ...

Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2025, updated Feb 11, 2025. Bots (LLMs) do not "write articles". They spew out words ...

In South Africa Apple's iOS is now "bigger" than Windows and Android (Linux) commands about two-thirds of "the market": ...

"According to the Office statistics the total number of days of absence has gone up from 12.4 to 13.1 total number of sick days per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) from 2023 to 2024." ...

When Web sites process tens of millions of requests per month it's no longer possible to know who reads them (with small blogs it's possible to identity some friends, family etc.) and so when they ...

Hours ago: "Heard from a few ppl in CIO to relocate or take a 3 month package. And so the wheels keep spinning on RTO! Ugh!" ...

LESS than a month ago Dr. Stallman, who had founded Free software, said in France ( full talk) that there was still a conflict or disagreement between the so-called 'FSFE' (we call it FSF-EEE ...

Please, people, stop uploading to Google/YouTube. It is not free hosting. It's a liability and a risk to the uploaders. Alphabet, which serves the MElon junta, becomes one's boss and master. It ...

Sites like Soylent News generally exist for a dialogue, they do not produce a lot of original stories. So if they make it a ...

"No good deed goes unpunished" at the EPO. The European Patent Organisation (and European Patent Office) is basically operating in vacuum and disguises law-breaking with some chaff about diversity and ...