Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Disinformation and Marketing Spam From and For OIN (GAFAM's and IBM's Weapon Against Free Software Activists and Reformists Against Software Patents)

   All in all, this anniversary is just a PR stunt with revisionism

2. Google Spreading Misinformation and Lies

   Google is in the propaganda business

3. New Video Report About Microsoft Cancelling Multi-Billion Dollar Projects

   direct link to the video

4. Microsoft is Already Laying Off Lots of Contractors

   cost-cutting at Microsoft takes a new "edge"

   New

5. Links 29/04/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs, 'Popcorn Lung' With Vapers, Hong Kong Banning Possession of e-cigarettes in Public

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 29/04/2025: Hey-Hi (AI) Isn't Your Friend/Lover, Mastodon is a Mess, and Mandelbrot Programming

   Links for the day

7. Just Sending More and More Threats Does Not Change the Fact We Got Abused for Many Years and Women Got Strangled

   Wanting a "gag order" - or sometimes injunctions - by sending many threats

8. Links 29/04/2025: Water Scarcity, LLM Slop Backfiring Again in Legal Documents

   Links for the day

9. statCounter: GNU/Linux Adoption Surging in Switzerland, Windows at All-time Low

   What happened?

10. Gemini Links 28/04/2025: Free Speech and Perfectionism in Design

    Links for the day

11. What Fake News Looks Like (IBM)

    IBM told a lie. The media then just blindly repeated this lie.

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 28, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, April 28, 2025

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