Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 13/06/2025: Journalists Targeted by Cracking, China-Japan and Israel-Iran Tensions Grow

   Links for the day

2. Twitter (X) is Dying, Now It's Just Like a Mafia-Type Operation of the Man Who Does Nazi Salutes in Public

   a form of extortion

3. The Price of Exposing Corruption in Poland (and Elsewhere)

   It's easier to participate in corruption than to merely do the right thing and oppose it

   New

4. Gemini Links 13/06/2025: (Not)virtues and Project Yeet Broadband

   Links for the day

5. Links 13/06/2025: US Reduces Nonessential Staff at Baghdad Embassy Ahead of Strikes in Iran, Invasion of California Debated

   Links for the day

6. X11 is Free Software

   Whether you agree (e.g. on politics) with the person/s forking it doesn't matter

7. The More Time Passes, the Better Our Advice on Social Control Media Seems

   At the end of the day, any platform you do not control yourself is working for someone else

8. UK High Court Blasts Brett Wilson LLP for Misusing "GDPR" After Failed Efforts to Censor Critics Using 'Libel' Claims

   No wonder this firm is rapidly shrinking

9. Recent Blunders in Microsoft GitHub (e.g. Slop-Generated Bug Reports or GPL Violations 'as a Service') Taking Their Toll?

   Put bluntly, if you still use Microsoft GitHub, then you're slave to Microsoft

10. American Imperialism and Microsoft Plagiarism

    Techrights will therefore do what Microsoft does not want it to do: it'll write even more about Microsoft

11. When They Have Nothing Left to Help Advance Abusive Litigation for Microsoft People... Other Than Throwing ~500 Pages of Someone Else's Work Into a PDF

    Microsoft is having a very tough year

12. Slopwatch and Yet More Holes in 'Secure Boot' (as Usual!), Promoted Inside Linux by the Man We Are Suing

    Today's Slopwatch will be short

13. Gemini Links 13/06/2025: People You've Left Behind, Life Update and OS Changes

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 12, 2025

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