Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. "Many Applications Labelled as "Cybersecurity" and Given a Veneer of Legitimacy Are Really "Weaponised" and Abusive Code"

   New from Dr. Andy Farnell

   New

2. Plagiarism by Bots: Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Still Creates Fake Articles About "Linux"

   100% fake

3. [Teaser] [Meme] New Ways to Impoverish Patent Examiners (Entrusted to Block Unjust Monopolies or Monopoly Applications)

   Coming tomorrow!

4. Apple Tax funds: railways, defective concrete blocks in Ireland's North and West

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. Daniel Pocock, Nomination for Ireland, Dublin Bay South, General Election 2024

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Links 08/11/2024: TikTok Bans and Clownflare Issues/Perils

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 08/11/2024: RPS, O.D.I.N., and RSS in Yahoo News

   Links for the day

8. Donald Trump as Censor in Chief Can Now Leverage Censorship Companies and Fake Protection Disguised as 'Security'

   Centralised CAs were trouble all along

9. Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part VI

   By Dr. Andy Farnell

10. A Death of a News Industry

    A theme we explored thrice today

11. Deciphering Centralised CAs and Why Their Demise Should be a Goal

    Encryption in transmission is good; but who controls the key exchange and certification/authentication/validation?

12. Links 08/11/2024: Strikes, Recessions, and Slowdowns

    Links for the day

13. [Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)

    The EPO

14. Gateway for News and Blogs

    In the long run, this site and its sister site (less overlap between them now) should hopefully become a popular destination for people who look for information, not chaff

15. Going Even Faster

    We hope the site will be faster soon

16. Psychopaths Who Reaffirm Our Work's Value

    Psychopaths and sociopaths lack empathy, so they're willing to go very far and stoop as low as they deem necessary

17. [Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?

    Not just in terms of patent quality

18. More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)

    "The Office is now reviving it but plans to introduce new cuts on benefits"

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 07, 2024

    IRC logs for Thursday, November 07, 2024

21. Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

22. Gemini Links 08/11/2024: US Election, RetroChallenge 2024, and More

    Links for the day

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