Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Proud to Host Free Software Talk by Richard Stallman

   ahead of Monday's talk

2. Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Machine-Generated FUD (LLM Slop) From GBHackers, CybersecurityNews, and Guardian Digital, Inc (Google News Promotes Slop Plagiarism, Misinformation)

   Companies that lie try to drown out the signal with falsehoods

   New

3. Links 21/02/2025: Linux Foundation Openwashing, Microsoft Copilot Goes Down

   Links for the day

4. Links 21/02/2025: Doomscrolling and European Ham Radio Show

   Links for the day

5. Links 21/02/2025: TikTok Layoffs, WebOS Software Patents in Bad Hands

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 21/02/2025: Web Browsers, Mechanical Shortcuts, and Internet Hygiene

   Links for the day

7. Richard Stallman 'Only' Founded the FSF

   there's no reason to be upset at the FSF for keeping their founder in the Board

8. Techrights Disconnected From the United States Two Years Ago

   Did people really need to wait for the US government to become this hostile towards the media before recognising the threat?

9. Before Trying Censorship by Extortion the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Literally Begged Us to Delete Pages

   This is very clearly just a broad campaign of intimidation

10. Hype Watch: Weeks After Microsoft Disappointed Investors With "Hey Hi" It's Trying Some "Quantum" Hype (Adding Impractical Vapourware to Accompany This Hype and Even LLM Slop in 'News' Clothing)

    Remember "metaverse"? What happened to media hype about "blockchain" and "IoT"?

11. Report About February Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025) Comes Back From the Dead

    Yesterday we wrote about an article in CRN (reporting Microsoft layoffs) being removed without any reasons specified

12. Links 21/02/2025: Myanmar Scam Centre and Disruptions at USPTO

    Links for the day

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, February 20, 2025

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