Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 31, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Wall Street Does Not Care About Microsoft's Impending (August) Layoffs, It Believes Lies From Microsoft, Whose Debt Grows Rapidly

   If Microsoft is doing so well and swimming in money, why so many cuts (about 29,000 layoffs so far this year)?

2. Riot for peace & Love: Catholic Influencers and Digital Missionaries welcome Jubilee of Youth

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

3. Google 'Search' is Fast Becoming No Better Than Social Control Media Infested With Bots

   Google emerged almost 30 years ago as a company looking to organise the Web and direct people towards informative pages. That Google is dead.

   New

4. How to Report Apple Layoffs Without Saying the "L" Word

   don't look for the "L" word

5. Wayland Considered Harmful (to GNU/Linux Adoption)

   it's not limited to games

6. My Experience With Judges Has been Positive, But We Must Still Pursue SLAPP Reform in the United Kingdom

   We believe it'll be a "feather in the cap" if we can help change laws in the UK to better protect investigative reporters

7. Slopwatch Makes the Web Better

   Remember what happened to BetaNews?

8. Slopwatch: Google News is Pumping in Lots of Web Traffic Into Fake Sites That Say "Linux"

   somewhere between 30% and 40% of today's "news" about "Linux", as seen by Google News, is LLM slop

9. Links 30/07/2025: Climate Calamities Highlighted, Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on Expression/Freedoms

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Watson’s List of Limits, Lysenko 2000

    Links for the day

11. Some People See What Others See... But Only 40 Years Later

    When people deviate from "the norm" they typically get ridiculed and dismissed as "crazy"

12. Links 30/07/2025: Tea Class Action and Google Killing the Web With Slop

    Links for the day

13. Last Month Our IRC Community Turned 17

    Funnily enough we never missed a single day when it comes to logging

14. "The Unix Kernel"

    Linux was inspired by MINIX

15. The Register Relays Microsoft Marketing, Dubs That Marketing "Research"

    Hours ago they did a "Microsoft sez" piece

16. Dealing With Sociopaths, Liars, and Cranks

    A dysfunctional society such as this would never develop

17. Not Owning Mobile Phones

    It's not about resistance; it's common sense

18. PCLinuxOS Had Functional Backups Before the House Fire, the Site Will be Restored in New Webhost

    This is the direction we want for GNU/Linux, not some IBM sales strategy

19. Gemini Links 30/07/2025: Two Sides of Me and "Hooked on Cosmic Voyage"

    Links for the day

20. Microsoft Will Continue Resorting to Crimes in Order to Keep GNU/Linux Usage Down

    It is a real problem and we'll revisit it later this week

21. GAFAM 'Revolving Doors' at The Register and a "Bribe Price List"

    "an analyst at Microsoft"

22. Microsoft Rapidly Shrinking (No, It's Not About Efficiency, It's About Unbearable Debt)

    We'll soon see how much debt grew in the past quarter

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 29, 2025

25. Corruption is the Standard Operating Procedure at the European Patent Office (EPO)

    The EPO is a dictatorship that stains Europe

26. Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) at the European Patent Office (EPO) Requests an Urgent Meeting to Avoid Abolishing the Office

    This is dictatorship led by the most corrupt

27. Slopwatch: Fake 'Linux' 'Articles' and Spamfarms/Slopfarms

    at least 5 fake articles in one day

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