Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2025

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

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