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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 18, 2025

Francisco Sá Carneiro airport metro station, Porto, Portugal

Updated This Past Day

  1. [Video] Dr. Richard Stallman at Technické Univerzitě v Liberci
    New/via libre-liberec.cz
  2. Security is Desirable, But Not When the Term Security is Misused to Imply Centralisation of "Trust" (Whose?)
    'Security' is not an excuse for vendor lock-in
  3. The Media Helps Microsoft, Amazon and Others (GAFAM and Beyond) Lie About Mass Layoffs Amid Valuation Bubble
    The media, instead of saying that there's an "AI bubble" crashing the economy might instead choose the narrative of "jobs replaced by AI"
  4. Bad Tempered? You Might Have Just Given Away That You're Losing the Argument
    Brett Wilson LLP is fully aware that it is being investigated

    New

  5. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal (Slashdot Media), UbuntuPIT, and Google News (Noise)
    egregious plagiarism
  6. Links 17/10/2025: Better Answers Sought After Air Crashes, "China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up"
    Links for the day
  7. Links 17/10/2025: Fentanylware (CheeTok) Causing Problems, Japanese Government Blasts Slop
    Links for the day
  8. The Linux Foundation Seems to Have Turned Linux.com Not Only Into a Spamfarm But Also LLM Slopfarm
    it's polluting the Web, even important domains like Linux.com, with spam and LLM slop
  9. Links 17/10/2025: UK’s Largest Breach Penalty and Windows TCO Examples
    Links for the day
  10. Go Watch Video About Librephone, Get Microsoft Ads
    Very ethical company...
  11. Campaign of Defamation Against the People Who Built NixOS (and Are Now Pushed Out From Their Own Project)
    We've already grown familiar with - and resistant to - such tactics
  12. Links 17/10/2025: Nestlé Crisis, Canada Post Versus 'Gig Economy' [sic] and Vista 11 Breaks Itself
    Links for the day
  13. Tux Machines Has Helped Separate Opinions/Analysis From News
    In September 2023 we decided to split things apart and not repeat links in both sites
  14. Tux Machines Has Improved Navigation of GNU/Linux and BSD News
    Some more 'wiring' work
  15. What a World Would Look Like If Everyone Used Free Software Only
    Freedom is what matters, not "Open".
  16. Richard Stallman (RMS) is a Target of Defamation Campaigns Because of His Views on Software (But Politics Are the Excuse for Defaming Him)
    Here in this site we try to refrain from politics, except in Daily Links
  17. End of Vista 10 and Rise of GNU/Linux as Client Side Operating System
    It seems certain GNU/Linux will grow in popularity over time
  18. Taking Stock of a Week's Worth of EPO Leaks
    We remain committed to exposing EPO corruption as long as it keeps happening
  19. Mathieu Parreaux claims FINMA knew since day one
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  20. Calumny, Libel, Joerg Jaspert & debian-private untouchable cyberbullies
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 16, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 16, 2025
  23. Techrights Turns 19 in 3 Weeks
    coverage of suppressed topics and protecting all sources/whistleblowers
  24. International E-Waste Day Same Day as End of Vista 10
    message from Akira Urushibata
  25. The EPO's Central Staff Committee Presents Evidence That Staff Compensation Lowered While the Office Increases Income by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents
    These people become millionaires by doing illegal things
  26. Second or Third Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in October 2025, This Time Portugal
    Those are just the ones we know about, there may be several more
  27. 'Help Net Security' (helpnetsecurity.com) May Have Become a Slopfarm as Well
    Zeljka Zorz, Editor-in-Chief at Help Net Security, was reported to us
  28. Gemini Links 17/10/2025: Rant About Network Solutions, Strange Anomaly on Lagrange
    Links for the day

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