Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 02, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 01/04/2025: Games and More

   Links for the day

2. Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women

   For those who have not been keeping abreast

3. Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!)

   This is far from over

4. Techrights Headlines as Semaphore

   "If you are hearing this, thank you"

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5. Links 01/04/2025: Apple Fined $162M for Privacy Abuses, Disinformation Online a Growing Concern

   Links for the day

6. Newer Press Reports Confirm That Microsoft Shuts Down 'Hey Hi' (AI) Labs Despite All the Hype

   The "hey hi" (AI) bubble is not sustainable

7. Links 01/04/2025: Mass Layoffs at Eidos and "Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers" (Demand Lacking); "Racist and Sexist" Slop From Microsoft

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 01/04/2025: XKCDpunk and worldclock.py

   Links for the day

9. 50 Years of Sabotage and a Gut Punch to Computer Science (and Science in General)

   Will we get back to science-based computing rather than cult-like following?

10. 3 Months in 2025, 4 Waves of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Now Offices Shut Down Permanently

    "A recent visit by the South China Morning Post confirmed that the office was dark, unoccupied, and had its logo removed."

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 31, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, March 31, 2025

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