Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Will be Remote

   This past week RMS received lots of accolades online

2. Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide

   Links for the day

3. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own

   The OSI is compromised

   New

4. Links 28/08/2025: Greenland 'Interferences' by US and Skinnerboxes to Get Banned in Korean Schools

   Links for the day

5. The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous

   The current editor in chief is an American Microsofter, the previous one went to work for Google (US)

6. Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks

   Links for the day

7. A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms

   There are several lessons in there

8. The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics

   In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 27, 2025

11. Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, Slopfarms in Google News, and More

    Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms

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