Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Traf-O-Data, the Company That Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) (Co)Founded 53 Years and Went Out of Business Due to Heavy Losses

   Who will die first, Bill or Microsoft?

2. A Note on SimilarWeb

   Or why SimilarWeb is meaningless for more than 99% of the sites on the Web

3. IBM Said to be Shutting Down Offices or Sites in the United States

   the press can no longer avoid admitting that IBM moves many jobs to India

4. LLM Slop as Attack Vector on the Reputation of Linux

   The attacks on Linux have escalated to information warfare

   New

5. Techrights Has Dealt With More Potent SLAPPs Than Violent Microsofters Begging to Hide What They Did to Women

   I became accustomed to SLAPPs

6. Links 04/04/2025: Fury in South Korea, Flight MH370 Remains Mystery

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Anger and Raspberry Pi CM4

   Links for the day

8. Links 04/04/2025: LLM Slop Bubble Bursting and Korea Music Copyright Association Bans Slop 'Music'

   Links for the day

9. Why Microsoft's Shares Sank Almost 20% in Recent Months (the Bubble is Imploding)

   verified press reports from the past 24 hours

10. GNU/Linux Rises to Almost 5% in Algeria While Windows Sinks to All-Time Low

    GNU/Linux grew tenfold

11. Where to Get More Gags

    A valued reader recommended that to us

12. Links 04/04/2025: Tech Stock (Inc. GAFAM) Fall, Google Pretends to Do End-to-End Encrypted Emails (With Google in Control)

    Links for the day

13. To Participate in Fedora Diversity You Must Use Proprietary Software

    Not for the first time either

14. Yandex About to Be Three Times Bigger Than Microsoft (Bing) in Asia

    That's about 60% of the world's population

15. Gemini Links 04/04/2025: Decoupling Updates, Elaho as Gemini Client

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, April 03, 2025

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