Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 22, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe, by Richard Stallman

   "The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place"

   New

2. Sounds Like Fedora is Ready to Become Less of a Slave of Microsoft (GitHub)

   This seems like a belated move in a positive direction

3. XBox is a Dead Microsoft Product in a Dying Industry

   It's probable that another wave of XBox layoffs is just over the horizon (maybe even before month's end)

4. Progress on Techrights Site Search

   Fun times

5. IBM's Bluewashing of Red Hat Means the Layoffs Are Silent, Barely Reported

   Don't wait to hear about "Red Hat layoffs"

6. Gemini Links 21/10/2025: Happy Disconnection, AWS Falling Apart, Closing of Gemlog Blue

   Links for the day

7. Full Audio of Today's Richard Stallman Talk in the Technical University of Munich

   Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society

8. Microsoft XBox is Just Vapourware (Promises of Hardware That Doesn't Exist), Real Products Perish

   just as developers lose interest in developing for XBox Microsoft is increasing the costs imposed upon them

9. Slopwatch: Fake Articles (Slop) in "Linux" Clothing in Google News (Noise)

   all about what Google does

10. Links 21/10/2025: Even "Inventor of Vibe Coding" Rejects Vibe Coding, USPTO Experiments With Slop in Examination

    Links for the day

11. Richard Stallman Talk Now Available for Viewing (Archived Copy, Not Live-streamed)

    This recording is over 2 hours old

12. Links 21/10/2025: AWS-Induced Chaos and Social Control Media Curbs

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 21/10/2025: Programming, StarGrid, Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025, and Chatbot as Addiction Mechanisms

    Links for the day

14. The African Lion and the American Cowards

    Safaris exist for people to watch and enjoy animals

15. Amazon Web Shenanigans Perfectly Timed for Today's Talk by Richard Stallman

    Maybe listen to him instead of looking for excuses to ridicule the messenger

16. Mission:Libre Has Taken Off (Project by Carmen Maris)

    there will be a lot more to report on next month (after the event)

17. Techrights to Publish More EPO Leaks Next Week

    We're meanwhile also doing lots of work on search, whose interface now looks better

18. Links 21/10/2025: 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs and Twitter (X) to Enable Identity Theft (or Handle Theft) as a Service

    Links for the day

19. Plagiarism With LLM Slop: Hindustan Times (HT Digital Streams Limited) Has Become a Slop Factory/Hub

    What a disgrace

20. Next Week We Launch Search at Techrights

    We're planning to launch it some time next week. Maybe Tuesday, maybe Thursday.

21. Talk by Richard Stallman Will be Live-streamed in Less Than 10 Hours

    Happy hacking

22. "No Kings" in the Software World (GAFAM Should Not Exist, Either)

    "No Kings" is a good slogan. Let's start by ridding ourselves of masters, not only those who reside in DC or visit DC

23. Every Morning

    Bugs/edge cases combined with automation can spell disaster

24. Insane, Deliberately Dishonest, or Just Another Bigot?

    very intellectually-dishonest human being

25. A Lot of Techrights is Built on Perl

    Perl also runs the sister site

26. The Register MS Selling Slop for Microsoft (Vapourware, Ponzi Scheme, False Claims)

    What will be left of The Register MS if it keeps repeating falsehoods and looking to profit from Ponzi schemes?

27. analytics.usa.gov Says Less Than 14% of Web Requests (to Government Sites) Come From Vista 11

    Vista 11 was released more than 4 years ago!

28. People Who Attempt to Take Down Correct Information Need a Doctor a Day

    “Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

29. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

30. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 20, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, October 20, 2025

31. Vista 11 is Sinking While Microsoft is PIPing (Mass Layoffs But Silent Layoffs)

    We're witnessing a shift in platform dominance

32. Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing')

    That alone is worth bringing up in his talk

33. An Update About Soylent News, With Jan Rinok "Back in the Saddle"

    Burnout or "near burnout" a possibility when having to curate abuse

34. When Prominent GNU/Linux Distros Are Run by Spies

    What has Microsoft Canonical become?

35. More Publishers and Companies Nowadays Say "GNU/Linux", Not "Linux"

    It's not to see InstallAware saying GNU/Linux this week

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