Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2025,
updated Apr 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: What Was Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

   We hope to finish this whole lot within a week, then move on to election, lobbying etc.

2. Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)

   It's a growing problem

3. The State of EPO Staff's Health in Rijswijk or The Hague

   We're going to cover the EPO some more later in the month

4. NVIDIA Corp Lost 36% of Its "Value" Since Cheeto Inauguration, But "Gen Hey Hi" (GenAI) is Totally Not a Bubble

   Selling loads of unneeded hardware based on hysterical hype; like selling shovels during a Gold Rush

   New

5. Links 05/04/2025: Tariffs Backfiring, YouTuber Arrested, X/Twitter Set to be Fined

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 05/04/2025: Offline is For Everyone, Copyright Colonialism, and More

   Links for the day

7. Links 05/04/2025: TikTok Unsold (Still), Royal Society is Dead

   Links for the day

8. GNU/Linux Growing in East Asia, Windows by Default No More?

   GNU/Linux is now on the shelf

9. Slopwatch: Anti-Linux 'Articles' From Linux-Hostile LLMs

   It is almost always negative things and nobody can be held responsible for it except the charlatans prompting the LLMs

10. Links 05/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) "Sale Looks Highly Imminent" (US), Stock Market Drowning in Panic

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 05/04/2025: Moving Plants, No to Smartwatches, RAID Hygiene

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, April 04, 2025

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