Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 20/05/2025: Biden's Cancer, GDPR Changes, and UK Defamation Cases (or SLAPPs) Fail Again

   Links for the day

2. Microsofters Targeting the Wife of the Critic of Microsoft

   false claims and loaded statement

   New

3. New 'Interview' With - or Talk Coverage of - Richard Stallman in the European Union

   automated English translation

4. Gemini Links 20/05/2025: LLM Scraper Bots in Gopher and "Starmer and the Somewheres"

   Links for the day

   New

5. Links 20/05/2025: "Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data" and "Free Speech Warriors" MIA

   Links for the day

6. Openwashing of Windows, Back Doors, Persistent Surveillance, Keyloggers, Screen Loggers, DRM and So On

   WSL is not "Linux", it's Windows

7. IBM Mass Redundancies Likely This Coming Thursday

   We're not in a position to judge if that's true or false

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 19, 2025

   IRC logs for Monday, May 19, 2025

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