Based on his 'Microsoft resume' (Microsoft LinkedIn), he's not a bad person, but Sohidur Rahman can leave some readers with a bad taste in their months. People typically go to GNU/Linux in order to ...

A longtime reader (nearly 20 years!) wrote to inform us of the latest intervention in Europe. It's by the European Internet Forum (EIF), which contrary to its name is barely European*: ...

3 months ago: Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year ...

LLM slop is a parasite. It lessens the incentive for people to do any real journalism or for companies to pay people to do so. Some former news sites have become slopfarms, but they aren't telling ...

A lot of people wrongly assume that because some people got very rich inside Microsoft, thae that means Microsoft itself is a big pile of cash. It's not. It's a pile of debt; speculative models try to ...

Counter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2025. Fewer than 20% of Web-connected devices in Africa are still desktops/laptops: Microso ...

Last year we momentarily saw it at 16% and 18%. Now it's about 17%: Looking at browser statistics in Ireland (statCounter is Irish), Microsoft is in trouble: When/if Windows market share goes down, so ...

Microsoft pays publishers to spread the illusion that the only viable option for developers and non-developers is "drugs" like Visual Studio and Microsoft Office, respectively Including attempts to ...

Beware false headlines and fake text from cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com. Those sites with their false headlines are being spread around by Google News. They often spread anti-Linux messages, ...

The Debian Social Contract says "We won't hide problems" but it turns out the social contract is not honoured. What we have ...

"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded ...

Alright, so the good news is that BetaNews is at last, belatedly perhaps, recognising that LLM slop is risky to its reputation and hence its ability to attract real writers and advertisers. So it ...