Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Is Ubuntu Compromised? Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers.

   Perhaps people should ask Canonical what the thinking behind it was...

2. Phoronix Seems to be Trying to Kill Discussion About "Asahi Lina" and the Anti-Torvalds Brigade

   Our informed guess is that by reporting this news Phoronix got caught up in flamewars that divide and fracture the community

3. Facts on the Case Already Disclosed by US Authorities

   NGOs in the UK (several keep abreast of this, judging every recent move) are truly unimpressed

4. The Times Group (and The Times of India) Basically Died Again

   This time a death by LLM slop/plagiarism

   New

5. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, gbhackers.com, and techmonitor.ai (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux")

   Almost all of them (75%) show up in Google News

6. Gemini Links 19/03/2025: go-gopherproxy and 'Small Web' as Self-expression

   Links for the day

7. Links 19/03/2025: Attention's Cost and Media Still Besieged by Dictatorships

   Links for the day

8. Claiming to Love What You Reject or Seek to Totally Own, Control

   The Russia analogy is political

9. LinuxTechLab Became Just LLM Slop and SPAM

   Another dead (former "Linux") site

10. The Rust Song

    It's about control

11. The Death of The Economic Times (India Times): LLM Slop Presented as 'Articles', Containing Errors and Revisionism

    They'd be better off shutting down operations with some dignity than resort to bots giving the false impression (illusion) of authorship

12. In Belgium, Android is Finally Measured as Bigger Than Windows

    In Belgium, the lobbying capital of Microsoft, it wasn't easy to get there

13. "Rust People" Are a Threat to BSD Too (the Licence Isn't the Main Issue, Nor is the Proprietary Microsoft Hosting)

    BSDs aren't written in Rust, so BSD developers should buckle up

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 18, 2025

16. Sami Tikkanen Explains Rust Language and Its Goals

    "Sompi" (the nickname of Sami Tikkanen) has weighed in

17. Links 19/03/2025: Gardening Season and the Web Without an Audience

    Links for the day

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