IBM is in bad shape as the hype (or "bubble" or "pump") is deflating and mass layoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal, as are the empty (abandoned) buildings. Consider Confluent.

Yesterday there was an "Extraordinary General Meeting" organised by the staff union of the European Patent Office. That was shortly after another meeting. "Report on the SUEPO Munich General Assembly ...

To cap it all, the concessions for the Espinho and Algarve casinos operated by Solverde were due to expire at the end of 2025. The decision on renewal would be taken by a government led by Montenegro, ...

Lately we noticed that several slopfarms - some with "linux" in their domain name - had become entirely inactive. They must have reached the foregone conclusion; nobody wants to read their LLM slop ...

In IBM's case, a lot of the latest "pump" was Arvind's "quantum" hype/fantasy. Hours ago I was asked about "quantum" things and needed to clarify that - just like "hey hi" ("AI") - the media ...

Now] we're excited to launch the XIAO Project Hub — a single, open home for the best XIAO projects from across the community, all in one searchable place." Pseudonymous classic computing enthusiast ...

New York Times ☛ Meet the NASA Astronauts in the Artemis III 4-Person Crew NASA’s next mission in its effort to return humans to the moon will be led by an all-male crew. Three of them have extensive ...

Allegedly €18,000 for products that do not truly exist (but people get paid to praise ). 3 days ago: IBM Exploits Overambitious, Hungry Young Men to Help the "Great Quantum Hype Campaign" (Pumping the ...

Days ago: IBM is "Making an Exit". Only the Executives Will Get Rich. Slop made by LLMs is not thriving and right now some of the allegedly largest (but not GAFAM) companies "make an exit", realising ...

Prepare for obligatory attestation [1, 2], DRM, ads etc. (proprietary software mandated to access videos of people who aren't even paid to give them to Google) THIS morning it's probably the first ...

We've occasionally written here and elsewhere about what seemed to us like 'Slowloris'-type cyber attacks aimed at lowering our availability. As this paper puts it: "Slowloris operates by holding as ...

There has been blog coverage focused on what Steam Survey says about GNU/Linux as a single unit (all distros combined), but when one examines the distros and bears in mind SteamOS is based on Arch, ...