Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slop Nihilism is Funded by Big Oil

   Eventually human civilisation will destroy itself

2. Professor Eben Moglen Recovering From Open Heart Surgery

   From his public pages (this is not secret)

   New

3. Slopwatch: Fake Articles, Fake Text, Fake Images, Negative Slant on "Linux"

   Google News has lost its value; the signal-to-noise ratio has fallen off a cliff

4. Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Relax-and-Recover on Proxmox and New Smolweb File Transfer Service

   Links for the day

5. Fact: EFF Got Corrupted by Corporate Money. Microsoft Lunduke (Political Noise): The Issue With EFF is, It Kills Babies.

   Microsoft Lunduke - as usual - finds a way to make it about abortions

6. Pacing Publication Up a Bit

   The news cycles have gotten rather light and slow

7. Links 17/09/2025: Power Outages, Digital Controls, and Attacks on the Mainstream Media (by Insecure and Corrupt Dictators)

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Flashing LineageOS and ROOPHLOCH

   Links for the day

9. Links 17/09/2025: Long COVID Study, "Exposing Pegasus", and Chatbots Exposing Sensitive Data

   Links for the day

10. Links 17/09/2025: Secret Settlement for Internet Archive and Google’s LLM Slop Summaries Attracting Lawsuits

    Links for the day

11. The True Cost of 'Generative Models'

    Funded and promoted by the companies that profit from the waste

12. 'Big Slop' Attacks Contemporary Information/Knowledge and Creative Works, 'Big Copyright' (Cartel) Attacks the Old

    Someone at IA will hopefully "blow the whistle" on what they actually agreed

13. Why We Find It Difficult to Trust Rust

    A comparison between C/C++ and Rust

14. Watching the OSI: Our Series Will Carry on Irrespective of the Chief's 'Resignation'

    the OSI isn't even the real guardian of the term "Open Source"

15. Just What LibreOffice Needs? Another Language? (Rust)

    what's all this concern about memory safety?

16. Many Microsoft Managers Are Leaving

    "Hey hi" chaff or chaff about "hey hi" cannot eternally distract from the difficulties inside the company

17. There Are Red Hat (IBM) Layoffs, But Google News is Infested With Slopfarms

    It contributes a lot to misinformation and it encourages plagiarism

18. Tomorrow, Microsoft's Tim Anderson's 'The Register MS' Offshoot Will Have Been Inactive for 2 Months (There's Also a Slop Problem)

    We've already caught The Register MS using LLM slop for articles

19. Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer Leaves Microsoft After Nearly 30 Years

    And not retiring

20. Even Windows Users Are Having Problems With "Secure Boot"

    When it comes to security - Microsoft strives for the very opposite

21. Another Competition Crime of Microsoft, Long Facilitated and Advocated by a Bad Actor, Who is Funded by a Third Party to Commit Extortion Against People Who Have Correctly and Repeatedly Warned About It for Over 13 Year

    We must always go back to the core issues

22. 3 More Reasons to Replace Mozilla Firefox With LibreWolf

    Thankfully there are de-enshittified versions of Firefox

23. USA Not a Place for Free Speech

    In America, as in the US, the attacks seem more enhanced or advanced these days

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, September 16, 2025

26. Links 17/09/2025: Google Layoffs in "Hey Hi" (AI), Perplexity Hit With More "Hey Hi" (Plagiarism) Lawsuits

    Links for the day

27. Gemini Links 17/09/2025: Reclaiming Things in a Digital Age and Moon Phases in CGI

    Links for the day

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