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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Extortion is a Crime, Even If You're Based in Another Continent and Work for Microsoft
    reported to British authorities

    New

  2. Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, Planet Ubuntu, Anti-Linux FUD, and Microsoft SPAM
    It's not easy to altogether avoid take articles these days
  3. Gemini Links 06/06/2025: "MBA Tear" and Slop ('AI') as Plagiarism
    Links for the day
  4. Links 06/06/2025: "Convicted Felon and MElon Trade Insults" and Europe Snubbed by US Again
    Links for the day
  5. Links 06/06/2025: Microsoft XBox Bracing For More Mass Layoffs, Climate Disaster, Fake 'Money' Tokens From US President
    Links for the day
  6. Gemini Links 06/06/2025: Vanishing Cultures and MElon Implosion
    Links for the day
  7. We're in 6/6 Now, Almost Halfway in 2025
    2025 was probably the best year for us
  8. South Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Microsoft
    We're hardly even "Cherry-Picking" or conveniently singling out one South American nation
  9. Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part III: Data Protection Failures, Just Like at the European Patent Office (EPO)
    Just less than a decade ago we showed that the EPO had illegally shared staff data with third parties
  10. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  11. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 05, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, June 05, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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