Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 24, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder

   The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else

2. An "EU OS" Would Need European Components

   There are many European (or Europe-led) distros of GNU/Linux. EU OS developers ought to look at those.

   New

3. Critics of IBM's Strategy Aren't Racists, But...

   the situation is saddening as it serves to obscure the severity of the problem

4. Mauritania: Windows Falls to All-Time Low of 6% (It Used to be Over 99%)

   Windows is 0% in mobile

5. Outline of Open Source Initiative Coverage to Come (Now That Consensus is Changing)

   Policing Wikipedia and attacking critics is not a sustainable strategy

6. Gemini Links 23/03/2025: "Connor of the Cats" and CSS Naked Day

   Links for the day

7. Links 22/03/2025: Science and Antoine Beaupré on "Losing the War for the Free Internet"

   Links for the day

8. We Probably Served Close to 100 Million Gemini Requests

   Many of these requests probably came from bots, but it's hard to distinguish (to block them) ... This coming summer Gemini Protocol will turn 6

9. Just Because Microsoft Resents Techrights Doesn't Mean SLAPPs Will Silence Techrights

   To confront lies the best solution is to speak truth

10. Windows at New Low Levels in Madagascar (Population About 33 Million)

    Madagascar does not need Microsoft

11. Slop Images Are Bad Optics, Including for Perl.org

    Slop devalues one's genuine work

12. What Happened to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Elections: Proprietary Software Companies in Control, the Scandals Cannot be Hidden Anymore

    We'll talk about it later this month and next month

13. Slopwatch: Fake News About Security Using LLMs That Make Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" (With Slop for Images)

    This cannot end well

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 22, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 22, 2025

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