Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. UEFI "Secure Boot Doesn’t Play Nice at the Moment"

   UEFI "Secure Boot" does not improve security. It's an artificial obstacle in service of monopoly.

2. If You Want to "make your 'Windows PC' lean, mean, and fast" You Will Install GNU/Linux or Some BSD

   That kind of article says a lot about IDG

   New

3. Satya's Plan B: Try to Hide the Massive Extent/Scale/Scope of Microsoft Layoffs

   fewer people buy Microsoft

4. Red Hat News About De Facto Mass Layoffs (Bluewashing) Gone From Reddit (Censored by Gatekeepers), Still Online in The Register

   With RTOs, PIPs, relocation etc. expect IBM to "shed off" many Red Hatters

5. Gemini Links 14/09/2025: ROOPHLOCH, Music, and Reddit

   Links for the day

6. Slopwatch: Google News Infested With Slop (About Half of the Results for "Linux" Today)

   This is the sort of junk one finds when looking for "Linux" in Google News these days

7. Links 14/09/2025: Ricky Hatton Dies and McDonald's Declares War on Tipping Culture

   Links for the day

8. Links 14/09/2025: Disasters for CEOs Obsessed With Slop and Slop Companies School Like Fish

   Links for the day

9. "Bad Shim Signature" (Microsoft 'Secure' Boot)

   "Fresh install not booting"

10. What Microsoft Garrett and Microsoft Lunduke Have in Common

    Similar tactics, different "wings"

11. Links 14/09/2025: US "Economy Sagging", "Michigan Economy Wobbles From Tariffs"

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 14/09/2025: Minimalist Snippet Manager and Omarchy Linux

    Links for the day

13. The Face of the Digital Far Right: Microsoft Lunduke

    Microsoft Lunduke is an online extremist that belongs to and panders to the far right

14. 20 Years Later and Academia Isn't the Same

    "I never dreamed of being a professor"

15. 'Cancel Culture' by the Right: Microsoft Lunduke Contacts People's Employers Trying to Get Them Fired

    Microsoft Lunduke panders to extremists online

16. "Bad Shim Signature"; So 'Secure' That It Overrides Users' Preferences and Turns Itself Back on (Coercive Measure)

    This was a few hours ago

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, September 13, 2025

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