Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux

   not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms

2. Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life

   Links for the day

3. Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught

   Links for the day

4. Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"

   Links for the day

5. Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies

   The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster

6. After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)

   Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)

7. Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product

   The core goal should be freedom

8. Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics

   Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology

9. Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good

   users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive

10. IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance

    IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking

11. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

12. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025

13. Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development

    In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced

14. Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)

    These slopfarms help misplace blame

15. Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected

    Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October

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