Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 05, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Weeks After Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia the Company Shuts Down in Pakistan, Too

   Last month Windows' share in Pakistan fell to an all-time low

2. Crime and Corruption at Microsoft GitHub Cannot be Covered Up by SLAPPs in Another Continent

   We'll write about this for a long time to come

3. Slop Videos Are Disappointing Garbage, Nothing New, Just Brute Force up on Display or a Pedestal of Slop

   Slop videos aren't a new thing

   New

4. Links 04/07/2025: Google Replaces the Web With Slop, "AI Might Kill Us All"

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 04/07/2025: Mindfulness and F1

   Links for the day

6. Rob Musial's June 2025 Additions of Malware in Proprietary Software

   Via the GNU Web site this week

7. Links 04/07/2025: Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Show Another Crisis Unfolding, Many More Deep Cuts and Shutdowns Revealed, Complete Microsoft Exits

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 04/07/2025: A Day To Remember and "Stop Killing Games"

   Links for the day

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 03, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, July 03, 2025

11. The War on Local Storage (People Hosting Their Files Locally and Privately)

    There's nothing wrong with controlling one's computing

12. What Digital Independence Means

    Independence in the digital realms means abandoning platforms like GitHub, not just rejecting proprietary software

13. NVidia is a Bubble

    they temporarily see fortunes and wrongly assume perpetuity thereof

14. Fedora Does Not Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It's About Optics (Corporate Image)

    any notion of inclusion is superficial and misleading

15. Don't Buy the Excuses for Microsoft's Mass Layoffs

    Back in the 90s, Microsoft bought a lot of companies to get and stay ahead

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