Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Australia: Windows Fell to All-Time Low, Even Lower Than iOS

   There's a good reason why next week there will be so many Microsoft layoffs

   New

2. The "News" You Saw About Canonical is Misleading, It Made Only 18 Million Dollars Last Year and Barely Paid Any Taxes

   Lies are the norm these days...

3. Pushing Wayland Using Straw Man Arguments

   phoronix.com has long promoted the talking point of "Wayland people" (for at least a decade already)

4. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, WebProNews, and Google News Boosting Slopfarms as 'News'

   People who don't recognise the slopfarms and don't know which sites are fake would struggle to understand what's really going on

5. Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 28/06/2025: Shellshock and Network UPS Tools

   Links for the day

7. Links 28/06/2025: The Age of Integrity and FreeBSD Foundation Added John Baldwin as Board Member

   Links for the day

8. Fedora 44

   IBM now does to Fedora what it did to RHEL

9. Microsoft Already Shaved Off Costs Anywhere It Could. It Was Not Enough.

   Office and Windows aren't "selling" (licences) like they used to

10. Scheduled Maintenance Next Week

    Our community is alive and well

11. BetaNews: We're Publishing LLM Slop About LLM Slop

    Beta version of a slopfarm?

12. 3-Month Updates on Our Complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

    In short, the complaint remains open, updated, and is advancing

13. IBM Red States Hat (Project 2025): Our "New Thing" Replaces This "Old Thing"

    The new replaces the old. That's how IBM frames it.

14. Start X

    Just because something is old does not mean it is bad

15. Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, Google News Slopfarms, and Linux Journal (LJ)

    Today we take a quick look at 3 slopfarms

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 27, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, June 27, 2025

18. Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism

    Links for the day

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