Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft SLAPPs Against Techrights Losing Momentum

   It always backfires

   New

2. Links 13/04/2025: Microsoft Cuts to "AI" and Azure (It's Failing), ‘Ghiblification’ Shows Slop Doing Much Harm

   Links for the day

3. Links 13/04/2025: Tariff Remorse and Chatbots Leak Again

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 13/04/2025: No CSS, Spring Scripting

   Links for the day

5. Richard Stallman Turns 72 and Will Be Giving Talks in Europe Soon

   We have many local copies of his talks as WebM, having converted files uploaded to YouTube

6. Revisionism and Lies by LLM Slop and Lazy "Media"

   What happened to investigation of issues?

7. EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits)

   Nobody authorised this

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 12, 2025

   IRC logs for Saturday, April 12, 2025

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