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These are the current Techrights headlines as of 2025-04-03 18:04 GMT signaled with semaphore flags.

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1 readyConfirmed in the Mainstream Media: A Lot of Microsoft "Workloads" Were Just LLM Slop (Helping to Fake Growth for Years, as Microsoft Had Paid "Open" "AI" to Become a "Client") and Demand is Rapidly Waning, Datacentres Canceled and/or Shut Down (updated)

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2 readyTaiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble (updated)

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3 readyMore Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys (updated)

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4 readyBrett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

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5 readyLinks 03/04/2025: Tariff Pains and C.D.C. Cuts

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6 readyStatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned

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7 readyLinks 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist,  Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk

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8 readyGemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures

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9 readyIslamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12%

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10 readyIndonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux

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11 readystatCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally)

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12 readyOnly on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI)

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13 readyIBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft

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14 readySlopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans

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15 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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16 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025

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17 readyLinks 03/04/2025: Apple Fined Over Secret Surveillance, "Elegant Writer For A More Civilized Age"

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18 readyGemini Links 02/04/2025: Books and Cold Tea

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19 readyLinks 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges'

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20 readyLinks 02/04/2025: Seizures and Returns to Windows of 24 Years Ago

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21 readyLLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM)

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22 readyLinks 02/04/2025: Microsoft Developers Are Threatening to Go on Strike, World Backup Day Noted

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23 readyGemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop)

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24 readyThe Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers

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25 readyAmid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike

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26 readyGemini Links 02/04/2025: No more on Mastodon and Gemini Mention Script in Go

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27 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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28 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 01, 2025

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29 readyMy Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs

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30 readyThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors

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31 readyUbuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies'

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32 readyGemini Links 01/04/2025: Games and More

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33 readyLinks 01/04/2025: Apple Fined $162M for Privacy Abuses, Disinformation Online a Growing Concern

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34 readyWhy We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women

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35 readyNewer Press Reports Confirm That Microsoft Shuts Down 'Hey Hi' (AI) Labs Despite All the Hype

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36 readyLinks 01/04/2025: Mass Layoffs at Eidos and "Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers" (Demand Lacking); "Racist and Sexist" Slop From Microsoft

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37 readyStefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!)

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38 readyGemini Links 01/04/2025: XKCDpunk and worldclock.py

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39 ready50 Years of Sabotage and a Gut Punch to Computer Science (and Science in General)

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41 ready3 Months in 2025, 4 Waves of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Now Offices Shut Down Permanently

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42 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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43 readyIRC Proceedings: Monday, March 31, 2025

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