Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 30, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. This New Talk Helps Explain Why Crimes at the European Patent Office (EPO) and Patent Policy Deficits Remain Unaddressed by the European Commission

   Corporations write and enforce the law

2. Enshittification is Everywhere

   Computer Science has been reduced to just "computer" (spyphone)

3. Move to GNU/Linux and Save the Planet, CCC Talk Explains

   video of the talk

4. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Tells Us All to "Keep Putting Pressure on Microsoft"

   "Grassroots organization against a corporation as large as Microsoft is never easy"

   New

5. Incredible! Beta'News' Now Runs Ads as 'Articles' About 'Hey Hi' (AI), Written by LLMs

   Does it get any more rogue than this?

6. Our Most Relaxing Christmas Ever?

   this Christmas was our most calm every (in recent memory at least)

7. Bad Year for Microsoft in India (and Another All-Time Low, Windows at 12% "Market Share")

   Microsoft is the next Intel

8. Keeping Online Even During Wars

   the Internet is still quite robust

9. Fascistic Regimes and Their Justices Will Leverage Social Control Networks to Their Advantage (Power Grab), They Won't Protect Constituents From Them

   "controlling the voices and all the narratives, including the press because they too buy into the lies that it is a communications medium"

10. New Year's Resolution for Techrights: No More Very Short Posts

    If we publish memes, as above, then we'll try to at least contextualise them somewhat

11. Links 29/12/2024: Phytium Sells Chinese CPUs and Landing Gear Malfunction Crashes Plane in Korea

    Links for the day

12. Links 29/12/2024: Facebook Wants More Bots and Slop, Whistleblowers and Bloggers Under Attack

    Links for the day

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 28, 2024

    IRC logs for Saturday, December 28, 2024

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