Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. European Patent Office (EPO) Reformation Project

   It's a stain on the EU's reputation

2. Slopwatch: Google News and Other Slopfarms

   Google News is rewarding sites that misuse LLMs and cheat the Web

3. Moral Standards From the Masters of Linux

   They get hung up on minor language issue and promote this crazy theory that racism will go away if only everyone spoke a little differently (no matter where he or she came from)

   New

4. Serial Slopper (SS) Still at It, Still Misusing Plagiarism Tools and Cheatware for Images and Text About "Linux"

   All the slopfarms are a very big problem

5. Reddit Deletes Stuff, But Not for Being False or Misleading

   Yet another one of those articles that speak of a man in his 50s as if he's terminally ill

6. Times of India and India.com Are Clickbait and LLM Slop

   Google continues to reward bad actors

7. The More "Market Share" Microsoft Loses, The Higher the Shares Go

   People joke about the same sort of thing in relation to IBM

8. To OIN, Software Patents Are Not a Problem

   Had software patents ceased to exist, OIN too would cease to exist and its staff would be unemployed.

9. Microsoft's Bankruptcy in Russia is Only the Beginning

   Due to politics it mostly makes sense that Windows is being phased out, also in part due to policy changes

10. Microsoft-Funded Publishers Lied to Us About Vista 10 and Now Advocate Us Owning Nothing

    They want you to own nothing, but they also want you to buy a PC on which to become Microsoft's slave and they make it harder if not practically impossible to remove Windows

11. Articles Promoting and Celebrating Wayland Are LLM Slop

    New example (100% slop)

12. The Register MS, Dominated by American Editors, Says UK Should be Run (Digitally) by Microsoft US

    The Register MS is sponsored by American money, run by Americans, and its chief editor is a Microsofter from the US

13. Gemini Links 14/08/2025: Drought, Climate Experiments, and LLM Slop Considered Detrimental

    Links for the day

14. Links 14/08/2025: Second-hand ThinkPad and Enhanced Surveillance on Chipsets from the United States

    Links for the day

15. Links 14/08/2025: Data Brokers Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google, "Fight Chat Control"

    Links for the day

16. FSF Infrastructure Under Constant Attack

    The disconnect (literally) has had an effect on credibility

17. Feels Like The Register MS is Trying to Diversify a Bit

    If The Register MS goes back to being The Register US (or UK), that will be a nice improvement

18. Gemini Links 14/08/2025: Reading Journal and LLM Fatigue Revisited

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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