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Morale at Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits
This hours-old report says that people laid off as "low performers" go to social control media to bemoan the label, which is ...
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Conservative Estimate: Over 10,000 IBM Workers to Be Laid Off in the Next Two Waves
Fishing for information about IBM layoffs is hard. That's because the media is dealing with "flooded zones" (lots of media ...
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Richard Stallman's English Talk in Italy Less Than 24 Hours Away (Torino) and Then Another Talk in Italy Scheduled (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
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 ...
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Parasitic LLM Slop Sites Destroy the Ability to Find "Linux" News in Google News
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 ...
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Microsoft in Africa: From 98% to Less Than 10% in Just 16 Years
In South Africa Apple's iOS is now "bigger" than Windows and Android (Linux) commands about two-thirds of "the market": ...
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Perl Programming Leftovers
"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." ...
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Almost as If MElon Reads Techrights
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 ...