Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Hopping From One Set of Buzzwords to the Next

   Rotating hype and vapourware

2. Currys PCWorld Hates GNU/Linux Even Though It Runs the World

   If more and more people choose to remove Windows, then Currys PCWorld will feel the financial impact of its dumb policies

3. The Register MS Takes More Money to Boost Slop Hype, This Time From Snyk, a Notorious FUD Source

   At some stage or at some point they might even decide to stop doing so

4. "AI" Hype or LLM Slop is Not About Efficiency, It's About Lowering Standards

   It does not seem like IBM is genuinely committed to the same goals (or commitments) as the original Red Hat

5. If Free/Libre Software is Adding Trillions in Value to the European Economy, Then the European Commission Must Crush Software Patents

   Further to what we wrote yesterday

6. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

   New

7. Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era

   The kids were alright

8. "GPT-5" is Another Microsoft Dead Cat Trying to Bounce

   The hype, the momentum (or the inertia) is wearing off

9. Microsoft Windows Losing Its Grip Near Turkey and Russia

   The 'corridor' nations connecting Iran to Europe

10. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Google News, and Serial Slopper (SS)

    The slop, the bad, and the ugly

11. Links 13/08/2025: The “Incriminating Video” Scam and Corruption in South Korea

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 13/08/2025: Movie Memories and Mystery Machine Bus

    Links for the day

13. Links 13/08/2025: GitHub Trouble and Openwashing by Microsoft OSI With the Typical Buzzwords

    Links for the day

14. Microsoft Swallows GitHub Losses

    Only Microsoft knows how much money it has already lost on GitHub

15. Gemini Links 13/08/2025: Climate, Coffee, and Deploying Troops in Washington DC After Pardoning 1,000+ Insurrectionists in Washington DC

    Links for the day

16. The Register MS Lowered MS Focus This Week

    We hope The Register recognises its errors and tries to make up for them

17. Learning Ethics From Jeffrey Epstein's Enabler/Client/Ally, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft Accenture

    Whatever merits vocabulary changes initially had are being tainted or obscured by later iterations, which tell us to avoid word like "normal", which apparently offend some people (so they argue)

18. Personal Attacks From Rust People Serve to Confirm They Have Lost the Argument

    "The discussion I find around the net so far has no technical merit and centers around ad hominem"

19. Physical Meters and Purely Mechanical Meters Aren't Dumb; It's Dumb to Mock or Dismiss Them as Antiquated

    I've learned a lot this week, both online and over the telephone

20. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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