Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. New XBox Leaks Probably Serve to Confirm XBox's Collapse (Many More Layoffs)

   It's very much consistent with what many other sites have reported lately

   New

2. Links 09/10/2025: Farewell to Jane Goodall, California Bans Algorithmic Price-Fixing

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 09/10/2025: Lost Wages and a Saga Of Continuing To Use Palm PDAs

   Links for the day

4. Richard Stallman's Talk in Helsinki is Done. Tomorrow Göteborg.

   There are scarce details in Finnish about Dr. Stallman's talk

5. The Slop Song

   The train wreck marches on

6. LLM Slop/Advanced Plagiarism Flooding the Zone With Capital That Does Not Exist

   Many publishers out there still participate in this bubble instead of calling it what it is

7. Links 09/10/2025: Sacked Microsoft Workers Make "Sackbird", IBM Taps CockroachDB for PostgreSQL

   Links for the day

8. "Happy Hacking Day" Richard Stallman Talk This Afternoon (From 14:00 to 16:00) at Haaga-Helia University in Pasila

   Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Finland

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 08, 2025

11. Links 09/10/2025: Impact of Microsoft Layoffs, More Data Breaches

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 09/10/2025: Autumn Blues and C IRC Bot

    Links for the day

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