Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 25, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Advertisers and Their Covert Impact on Publications' Output (or Writers' Topics of Choice, as Assigned or Approved by Editors)

   It cannot be trivially denied that sponsorship in the form of "advertising" impacts where publishers go (or don't go, won't go)

2. Terrible Year for Microsoft Windows in Cyprus

   down from 86% to 72% since January

   New

3. Brittany Day Connects Windows Ransomware to "Linux" Using Microsoft LLMs (FUD Galore, Zero Effort, No Accountability)

   FUD and misinformation made by Microsoft LLMs again?

4. Links 24/12/2024: Labour Strikes and TikTok Scrambling to Prop Up Radical Politicians That Would Protect TikTok

   Links for the day

5. Where the Population is Controlled by Skinnerboxes Inside People's Pockets (or Purses)

   A very small fraction of mobile users practise or exercise freedom/control over the skinnerbox

6. [Meme] Coin-Operated Publishers (Gaming the Message, Buying the Narrative)

   Advertise (sponsor) to 'play'

7. [Meme] How to Kill Unions (Staff on Shoestring Budget Cannot Afford Lawyers)

   What next for the EPO? "Gig economy"?

8. The EPO's Staff Union (SUEPO) Takes Legal Action to Rectify the Decrease in Wages (Lessening of Purchasing Power)

   here is what the union published

9. Gemini Links 24/12/2024: Deedum Gemini Client Gets Colour Support, Advent of Code 2024

   Links for the day

10. Microsoft Windows Slides to New Lows in Colombia

    Now Windows is at an all-time low

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 23, 2024

    IRC logs for Monday, December 23, 2024

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