Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Further Media Cut-downs

   media reporting about the media being cut

2. Gemini Links 09/09/2025: Moon Eclipse and ROOPHLOCH Reports

   Links for the day

3. Official SUSE Blog Still Uses LLM Slop (Bots) to Make Fake Articles (Marketing)

   The company is all about sound bites

4. Companies Realise That Slop Doesn't Work as Advertised, Accordingly Dump It

   "Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees."

5. Microsoft-Funded Lawsuits Against Critics of UEFI 'Secure Boot'

   Remember that no company (or law firm) ever survives collaborations with Microsoft

   New

6. statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Exceeding 10% in Bulgaria This Month

   What can Microsoft still do to stop GNU/Linux?

7. Dark Patterns

   Microsoft saying "security" is like a Convicted Felon in the White House saying "law and order".

8. It's Almost Fall (Autumn)

   To "Facebook prison" you are bound

9. Bruce Schneier About "Secure Boot"

   Bruce Schneier isn't a fan of "Secure Boot"

10. Links 09/09/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again and "RTO" (Timed Like It Serves as a Distraction From the Mass Layoffs)

    Links for the day

11. RMS Told Microsoft to Stop 'Secure Boot' (He Even Went There to Say That), But They Didn't Listen

    Dr. Stallman (RMS) assumed that speaking to sociopaths would work

12. What Richard Stallman Told Me About 'Secure' Boot in 2012

    "if the user doesn't control the keys, then it's a kind of shackle"

13. Those Who Helped Microsoft Weaponise "Secure Boot" Against GNU/Linux and BSDs Are Fleeing

    Microsofters doing what they do best: they evade accountability

14. Simple is Better, Simplicity is Power

    That is "the advantage of having commodity GNU/Linux systems," an associate notes

15. Much Ado About Nonsense

    Microsoft Lunduke is still all dramatisation and sensationalism

16. Current Events in France

    It needs to dump Microsoft and other GAFAM (US) giants, move to Free software

17. Links 09/09/2025: US-Korea Tensions and Meta Whistleblowers

    Links for the day

18. Links 09/09/2025: “Torrents of Hate” and Political Crisis in France

    Links for the day

19. Gemini Links 09/09/2025: "Dedigitizing" and Forgejo on FreeBSD

    Links for the day

20. Google News (Not Just Google Search) Lets Itself by Gamed by One Slopfarm - to the Point Almost Half of "Linux" News is Bot-Produced Plagiarism (LLM Slop With Slop Images)

    That says a lot about what Google thinks of quality, even in Google News

21. Bill Gates-Funded Media Inadvertently Refutes the Microsoft Lie That in 2025 Microsoft Had Just Two Waves of Layoffs

    There were about 12 rounds of layoffs so far in 2025

22. From theregister.co.uk to theregister.com (US) to The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives) and theregister.ai

    The best way to break this racket (or cycle of hype and harm) is to break the chains of funding

23. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Culture of Censorship Necessitates More Speech

    The OSI bans dissent or people who merely point out that the OSI is abusive

24. How to Reach Us Discreetly (Other Than Encrypted E-mail)

    We're still managing to maintain a 100% source protection record. We soon turn 19.

25. LLMs Are Vastly Worse Than a Waste of Energy and the Externalities Are Huge

    Worse than just higher power bills for everybody

26. LLMs Versus Search (Not Replacing Search But Engaging in DDoS Attacks Against Web Sites That Permit Searching)

    The state of the Web isn't just bad; it's utterly terrible

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, September 08, 2025

29. It's Only the Second Week of September and Already Two Waves of Layoffs at Microsoft, Slopfarms and Microsoft-Funded Sites Spin It as "AI Investments" Rather Than Commercial Failure

    A very large third one expected next week

30. The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)

    the "upgrade treadmill"

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