Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Arduino is Now a Patent Bully (Qualcomm)

   Qualcomm has just bought Arduino

2. Many Years of Microsoft Cancellations and Faked (Acquired) Revenue "Growth"

   XBox is basically the "next Skype"

3. Microsoft's Non-Denying Denial About XBox's Death is Already Being Shattered to Pieces

   Like Microsoft's 'open' 'hey hi', heralding meaningless non-committing agreements with AMD is little more than vapourware

4. The Register MS is Still Being Paid to Participate in the "AI" Ponzi Scheme Which Will Crash the Economy

   The Register MS is hoping to get lucky by tricking people into a scam

   New

5. Participation in Cancel Culture Detrimental to One's Career

   A cautionary tale

6. Passion Wins

   we've increased the number of birds we feed to 100+

7. How Solderpunk and Sean Conner Started Gemini Protocol (and, Collectively, Geminispace) Back in 2019

   Based on the "official" history

8. The Comment TheLayoff.com Has Just Censored for Criticising a Ridiculous Puff Piece of IBM Management

   If comments get censored for their "style" rather than their substance, then society will be worse off

9. The Power of Writing Down Facts

   The more we write and publish, the more people will know what happened

10. Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Joins the Slopfarms Club

    Slopfarms gonna slop

11. Links 07/10/2025: Privacy at Risk, GAFAM Remains Off the Hook

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Modern Retro Console Idea and Batch vs Bash

    Links for the day

13. Links 07/10/2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Convicts Ali Kushayb; Moroccan Imprisoned for 'Offensive' Shirt

    Links for the day

14. Links 07/10/2025: EU' Chat Control is Back, US Cracks Down on Democracy

    Links for the day

15. Techrights Pursues Justice and Truth Because, Without Those, Society Descends Into Chaos

    most people reject dogma and pseudoscience

16. Upcoming Talks by Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Göteborg, and Rome

    Join with him and share the software

17. Something Bad is Happening in the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

    The latest OSI blog post is from a Microsoft operative and a few weeks ago the Executive Director left

18. TLS 1.3 Dominates Geminispace (99% of Known Capsules)

    it's nowadays safe to assume almost every capsule can handle TLS 1.3

19. Why soylentnews.org Has Been Having Technical Difficulties Lately

    The network has been going up and down quite a lot this past week

20. A Statement Against Violence

    The facts are on our side

21. They've Run Out of Things to Rebrand or Label as "AI"

    The next few years will be interesting because if Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers each year, there won't be much left except mountains of debt and dying brands

22. Richard Stallman Confirms His Talk in Göteborg This Coming Friday

    "The hosts say that the list will not be given to the state"

23. Most of the "Linux" Results This Morning in Google News Are LLM Slop From the Same Slopfarm, Plagiarising Phoronix

    The main question is, does Google even care at this point?

24. Gemini Links 07/10/2025: Civil War and "Goodbye Web"

    Links for the day

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 06, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, October 06, 2025

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