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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
    Wikileaks was a good example of this
  2. If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You
    be (or become) independent
  3. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
    In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
  4. Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
    Links for the day
  5. The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"
    Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon

    New

  6. Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.
    Passing fads are like this
  7. Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd
    Betas for now
  8. The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women
    Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
  9. Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation
    This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
  10. Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android
    Links for the day
  11. Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
    Links for the day
  12. The Blob Slop
    Give me more words, give me some text
  13. Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix
    That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
  14. Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests
    Links for the day
  15. Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone
    Links for the day
  16. Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
    Links for the day
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, September 21, 2025

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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