Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. BASIC Predates Microsoft by Over a Decade, Microsoft-Controlled Sites Like The Register MS Don't Want You to Know This

   The state of the media is really bad when it relies a lot on oligarchs' money and is appointing editors who are working for oligarchs

2. Brian Kernighan, "Only Third to Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson" (UNIX), Agreed With Someone Who Said Rust Was Just Hype, Should Not Replace C

   17 hours ago

3. Reminder: Microsoft's "Secure Boot" Certificate for "Linux" Will be Expired in One Week

   Many PCs won't manage to 'rotate' to another certificate

   New

4. Genini Links 05/09/2025: Community, ROOPHLOCH, and PITkit

   Links for the day

5. Links 05/09/2025: Vaccine Sceptics Poison the Well, Two Exploited Vulnerabilities Patched in Android

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 05/09/2025: Logitech Lift and DIY Gemini Servers

   Links for the day

7. Links 05/09/2025: Sainsbury's Caught Spying on In-Store Shoppers and Microsoft "OpenAI is Using Legal Threats to Harass its Critics"

   Links for the day

8. Analogies for "Memory Safety" in Rust

   Don't worry, it's Rust! It can do anything!

9. "Many of the Red Hat Employees Are Still Looking for Work"

   Shame on IBM's CEO

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, September 04, 2025

12. Microsoft Started With Code Literally From The Trash, Nothing Has Improved Since

    The reality is, there are systems and code that are reliable. But they're not Microsoft's.

13. Hypothesis That New McKinsey/Microsoft Executive Inside Red Hat Will Outsource Research and Development Operations to India (Like They Do in IBM)

    IBM is floundering

14. Slopwatch: Scams, Fake Articles About "Linux", Plagiarism, and Worse

    Perhaps some time soon the LLMs or the "Big LLMs" will run out of money (to borrow) and go offline, leaving those slopfarms in a tough place

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