Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 17, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Video] IBM Shakes Hands of Prince Mohammed bin Salman

   handshake of loyalty

2. The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes

   Aside from other issues, such as strangling women

3. Trolls With LLM Slop Are Disrupting Communications About Mass Layoffs at IBM

   LLM slop to drown out the signal

   New

4. Links 16/05/2025: Microsoft Sacks Pregnant Women, People Fired on Their Birthday; Adobe Censorship Failing

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 16/05/2025: "Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism" and Pre-librebooted Computers

   Links for the day

6. The Microsofters Have Just Shared Privileged Trial Data With Microsoft

   There are serious ramifications for liability accountability as Microsoft salaries sponsor these SLAPPs

7. Enshittification is Everywhere: You Pay More, the Services Get Worse

   "Enshittification" is a term coined by an online friend; I increasingly use this term to describe what's happening even outside the realm of technology (which it was adopted to describe)

8. Microsoft Reduces Office Space Ahead of More Waves of Mass Layoffs

   "The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft"

9. Anti-Linux FUD Produced by Microsoft LLMs to Blame "Linux" for Microsoft's Own Failures

   We call out some of the worst culprits

10. Gemini Links 16/05/2025: Hoking GPS, Grabovac, and Tanana

    Links for the day

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 15, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 15, 2025

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