"Microsoft is spiraling," Ryan said yesterday after the press had confirmed the upcoming massive round of layoffs at Microsoft. "This is a collapse playing out in real time," he argued. "I think ...

Microsoft people realise there is a problem. "This is not caused by msft," they would rather believe, "they know our Gov ...

In our last Slopwatch we showed several examples of this news about a hole, which is not severe, being spun by LLMs for machine-generated FUD. Google News even relayed some of these fake articles. We ...

Having witnessed what happened to JoinDiaspora, gnusocial.de, mastodon.technology, and pleroma.site I can tell, based on direct experience, that all those Social Control Media sites are a waste of ...

One year ago gemini:// turned 5 and its founder said about active capsules or "platforms" (domains which respond over gemini:// ): "They are spread across roughly 2,750 capsules, up from about 2,500 ...

Another Very Large Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Now Confirmed in Mainstream Media. . As the "original" leaker put it 6 hours a ...

The Web is bad. It seems to be getting out of hand. BetaNews seems to be almost 100 percent slop, i.e. it is a slopfarm. Consider a short while ago. Camila Nogueira (if that's a real person all) is ...

Domain registrar (for BetaNews) is godaddy.com, says Netcraft, so it won't be easy to see if the records changed. DNC Holdings, Inc. may be the registrar instead, but either way, it'll be hard to spot ...

In less than two days from now Gemini Protocol turns 6 and, as we said yesterday and the day before that: "Active (online) Gemini capsules are estimated by Lupa at over 3,000 (Lupa knows of 3,053) and ...

Around that same time, John L. Young, a man aged ~60 at the time, created a site called Cryptome. Many people never heard of that site and when Mr. Young died earlier this year [ 1, 2] many people ...

Unlike some very poor countries, Germany and the EU are a considerable source of income to Microsoft. Losing those places ...

The likely eventuality for LinkedIn is a lot of "downsizing" - to the point where the acquisition turns out to be a "write-off". One reason for Microsoft acquisitions is debt-loading, i.e. offloading ...