Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 16/08/2025: "Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone" and the Case Against Booking.com

   Links for the day

2. X.Org is Still Not Dead

   Oracle still developing it

3. Microsoft is getting ready to cause many employees to resign

   Having already laid off many workers earlier this month, it now tries another approach

4. "Maybe the Problem is You"

   they probably felt like they had no choice because they really needed this Microsoft money

5. GNU OS, Powered by Hurd

   Choice is good, as long as choices exist that respect the users' freedom

   New

6. Gemini Links 15/08/2025: Leasehold, Slop Bubble, and Xobaqu

   Links for the day

7. Links 15/08/2025: Flight Attendant Strike, Floods, and Tropical Storms

   Links for the day

8. Links 15/08/2025: German Government Falls Short on Free Software, Russians Breach EU Systems

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft is Still Losing Cyprus

   The market share goes down, so share prices go up

10. Microsoft Accenture is in Trouble

    For one thing, its debt doubled in a matter of months

11. News Will Slow Down and Slop Will Contribute to the Slowdown

    In recent years every time there was some holiday or major break the number people who "came back" shrank

12. Upgrading IRC Network of Techrights

    a new version of the daemon we've used since 2021 was released very recently

13. "Register Debate Series" About Microsoft in the UK is Controlled by Microsoft (US)

    The Register is run by Microsoft "Analysts", so the debate is doomed from the get-go

14. IBM is a Terrible Model for Red Hat

    "Most likely caused by laying off too many people"

15. Microsoft Problems in Palestinian Territory and Israel

    Microsoft stock (share price) goes up when market share goes down

16. Slave is Not a Bad Word, We Need to Use It Sometimes

    Who does such exclusion of words benefit? What sort of expression will be deemed impermissible and subjected to CoC enforcement?

17. National Day of Action

    "This Friday, August 15th, there is an organized, petition-based, protest of Wells Fargo in major cities across the US," Richard Stallman wrote

18. Our Gemini Editions Now Contain 100,000+ GemText Pages

    Our Gemini Editions aren't small, even if Gemini Protocol is still the 'underdog'

19. The Relations Between the United States and Europe Deteriorate, Should Europe Continue to Rely on American Tech Giants?

    The shallow notion that made-in-USA software is fairly safe for Europe to rely to is coming to a standstill

20. Techrights and Tux Machines Running as Usual During Vacations

    No interruptions, maybe temporarily slowdowns

21. Gemini Links 15/08/2025: ADHD and "Random Weird Things"

    Links for the day

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, August 14, 2025

24. "Article 52. PATENTABLE INVENTIONS" in the European Patent Convention

    Some time tomorrow we'll have a complete local copy of the EPC

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