Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Matthew Stallman, or rms (RMS), Turns 72 This Coming Weekend

   This coming Sunday he deserves a cake

   New

2. Links 13/03/2025: Calculators and Spreadsheets, Returning to a Human Internet

   Links for the day

3. Links 13/03/2025: Further Assaults on Science and Education in the US

   Links for the day

4. Expect XBox to Be Shut Down Like Skype

   "hey hi"-washing fools nobody

5. Truth Hurts (Especially Some Dishonest and/or Greedy People), But Reporting Truth is What Makes Journalism Valuable to the General Public and Helps Protect Society From Abuse by Sociopaths or Pathological Liars

   When it comes to reporting, we're on the side of female victims, not the men who strangle them.

6. New Paper Reveals the Web (and Net) Drowns in LLM Slop, "Linux" is Impacted Too

   It will be getting harder to trust anything on the Web

7. Links 13/03/2025: RIP, Carl Lundström; Tesla (the Company, Not Scientist It Piggybacks) Besieged by Public Backlash

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 13/03/2025: MElon "Greek Tragedy" and Going Offline More

   Links for the day

9. Links 13/03/2025: COVID-19 Legacies and "Modern" Cars as Spying Machines on Wheels

   Links for the day

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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