Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 27, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. What 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Could Learn From Jimmy Kimmel About the 'Streisand Effect'

   Lawyering up is risky and is usually doesn't work

   New

2. Reminder: We're Unloading Some Publications to Tux Machines

   About 15 years ago I was struggling to keep up with TechDirt

3. The E-mail Protocol is for Text

   bad netiquette

4. Gemini Links 26/09/2025: Slop in OpenStreetMap and MOPML (My Own Private Markup Language)

   Links for the day

5. Links 26/09/2025: More Provocations Against NATO by Russia (Near Alaska, USA), Microsoft Booster Accenture Has Mass Layoffs

   Links for the day

6. Links 26/09/2025: Hardware, Security, Health, and Nuclear Armament

   Links for the day

7. Links 26/09/2025: "Digital Fatigue" and Slop Frenzy (Hype) Ruining Work Productivity, Culture, Languages

   Links for the day

8. Brett Wilson LLP Unwilling to Disclose or Explain How 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Pays for His SLAPPs Against Us (He Cannot Afford These), So We Are Escalating

   Escalated in the British authorities

9. Linux is Replacing Apple

   Apple is money down the drain. Not only are the gadgets overpriced; they cost a lot to maintain and keep going over time

10. "We don't have that kind of relationship with Microsoft. The only public key that every UEFI firmware is guaranteed to have is Microsoft's, and only Microsoft owns the private key."

    This is how to sabotage GNU/Linux distros that Microsoft does not control

11. Slopwatch: linuxconfig.org, linuxsecurity.com, and Google's Promotion of the Worst and Most Prolific Slopfarms

    Over in Google News it has been quite chaotic this past day

12. Gemini Links 26/09/2025: Reading RSS Feeds, ROOPHLOCH 202

    Links for the day

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 25, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, September 25, 2025

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