Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. This New Determination on a Case Echoes the Modus Operandi of Microsoft's Serial Strangler vs Techrights (Its Online Decision/Judgment Says Truth and Public Interest Defend the Publisher)

   Noel Anthony Clarke hopefully has enough money left to pay his victims, which include the publishers

   New

2. Richard Stallman (RMS) Was Right About "Sideloading" in 1996

   We now have computers that treat booting GNU/Linux like an act of "Sideloading"

3. Panama: Windows Down From 97% "Market Share" to Less Than 30%

   In 2009, Windows was measured at 97.24% (compared to 62.32% right now or less than 30% if one also counts Android)

4. The UEFI 9/11 - Part I - Introduction to Impending Catastrophe (Microsoft Preventing People From Booting Non-Windows Systems)

   eight-part series

5. Why Techrights is Slow Today (Bot Floods)

   We don't know if those bots are connected to LLMs (we have not checked), but that is a possibility

6. Slopwatch: DDoS Slop, LinuxBSDos.com Spam, and Slopfarms in Google News, Including webpronews.com

   Among the news we also found fakes, albeit not so much today

7. Links 26/08/2025: "Ballooning Debt" in France and "Transnational Repression in the UK"

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 26/08/2025: Listening to Alcest and Google Doing Evil (Users Installing Software is "Sideloading" and Prohibited)

   Links for the day

9. Links 26/08/2025: DNS Tampering and TikTok Layoffs

   Links for the day

10. Microsoft's Windows "Market Share" Overestimated

    Microsoft's income sources are shrinking

11. We Shall See...

    My wife and I are hardly the first victims of Brett Wilson LLP

12. Going Offline

    There was life before the Net

13. The Register MS Has Apparently Shut Down Its Office

    It is basically a fake address on the face of it

14. There Are Also Expectations of IBM Layoffs Very Soon With "Narrative Control."

    Some of them mention Red Hat and how IBM failed to achieve anything substantial with that acquisition

15. After at Least Two Rounds of Mass Layoffs in August Microsoft Said to Have "September Layoff Confirmed - Performance Based"

    Those "M5 level meetings" sound plausible

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, August 25, 2025

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