Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 19, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Brett Wilson LLP Seem to Have Had Only One Litigation Client in 2025, He Was Previously Charged, Just Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (Whom They Now Represent)

   Karma is superstition, regulators are not

2. Project 2030 to Cover How "Project 2025"-Styled Anti-Media Zealots From America Targeted Techrights and Tux Machines

   The common denominator is also their attacks on women

3. Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Meet Deadlines Set by Judge 7 Months Earlier, Tried to Ruin Our Holiday, Then Had the Audacity to Ask Us for Over 3,000 Pounds for Its Own Lateness

   As a matter of principle we will never respond to assassin while we are on holiday

4. Americans Attacking British Sites Only Months After They Leave America

   We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans and only months after it had moved to the UK

5. Despite Losing Over a Quarter Million Dollars a Year Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Gives Helping Hand to Libreboot

   SPI's financial state depends a lot on its public image or its reputation

6. If You Want to Know the Future, Listen to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Andy Farnell

   We're sure the FSF will have plenty of its own output

   New

7. On Claims That After Bluewashing Red Hat Will Increasingly Become an Indian Company

   Discussed this week (long and detailed)

8. Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists

   That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy

9. Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 18/09/2025: Computer Literacy and Accessing Alhena's Database

    Links for the day

11. Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook'

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 17, 2025

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