Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. On the Internet, Nobody Knows Microsoft and Windows Are Becoming Niche Players Until Data is Shown Correctly, Not Microsoft-Sponsored Articles in Microsoft Publishers

   Microsoft controls a lot of publishers and thus it controls information

2. All That's Left of MSNBC (Microsoft-NBC) is Microsoft NOW

   When plutocrats and large corporations (even deep in debt) buy all the communication channels

   New

3. IBM Operatives Inside The Register MS and More Shady Money to Follow

   The Register MS bites every banknote it can sink its teeth into

4. Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms in Google News (e.g. Linux Journal and WebProNews)

   Google plays an active role (if not deliberately then through utter neglect and carelessness) in plagiarism

5. Links 20/08/2025: Mass Surveillance Framed as "Artificial Intelligence" (All Old Things Reworded to Misframe Old Computer Issues), Europe Resists Capitulation to US(SR)

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 20/08/2025: Trips and Permacomputing

   Links for the day

7. Links 20/08/2025: Oracle Layoffs in India, "AI" Scammers/Profiteers Admit It's a "Bubble", Softbank-Saudi (Oil) Control Tech Companies

   Links for the day

8. Social Control Networks Give You False Metrics to 'Addict' You To Them

   Leaving social control media may seem hard, but the same is true for any other addiction

9. A Lot of What Happened in Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing.

   Last month we said the same was happening in YouTube

10. Microsoft May Have Become - at Least Partially - Like a Boiler Room Scam

    Giving imaginary salaries using imaginary tokens based on imaginary value (with restrictions on conversion to cash)

11. In Vietnam, Microsoft's Search Engine "Market Share" Fell to Almost 0%, CocCoc More Than 5 Times Bigger

    Why are people still investing in this company?

12. The Register MS, Paid to Promote "AI" Hype, Does "Sez" (Says) Pieces

    every bubble-funded "news" site tries to make it a story about "AI"

13. Many Companies Are Run by Liars Who Ride Other People's Money

    Or steal it

14. Before CoreAI There Was Builder.ai

    GitHub isn't about "AI" (just a bunch of lies and storytelling for shareholders' patience)

15. Microsoft Windows in Croatia at New Lows

    We've been keeping track of this trend for a while

16. Using the Best Tool/s for the Job: RSS Feeds and RSS Readers

    Use RSS feeds. Reject those "modern" Web things

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 19, 2025

19. Gemini Links 20/08/2025: Neovim, XML, and Alhena 5.2.9

    Links for the day

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