Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 24, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too

   It's not about being "Richard Stallman fan", it is about maintaining the right to hold positions (on technology) like his

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2. Slopwatch: Google News and Slopfarms That Relay Nonsense From LLMs

   Google News, which once prioritised or used to care about provenance and quality, is feeding slopfarms

3. Links 23/10/2025: More Health Concerns Over Dumb Chatbots (LLMs) and "Talking Cars" as Latest Buzz

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Daylight Savings Time and Duration Shorthand

   Links for the day

5. Links 23/10/2025: LLM 'Hallucinations' (Defects) in Practical Code 'Generation', China Becomes More Economically and Technologically Independent

   Links for the day

6. Linux Foundation Uses LLM Slop to Promote Microsoft in Linux.com (Again), Rendering It a Linux-Hostile Slopfarm

   Openwashing with slop by "Linux.com Editorial Staff", which basically seems to be a bot

7. Links 23/10/2025: Windows TCO Galore and "The Internet Is Going to Break Again"

   Links for the day

8. Social engineering attack: Debian voted to trick you on binary blobs

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Techrights Will Always Stand for Women's Rights

   We even invest money - personal savings that it - in our principles

10. Certified Lawyers Should Know Better (Than to Intimidate Us With Man Who Drives on Motorcycle Through a Really Bad Storm Between Distant Cities, Then Collects Photos of Our Home)

    Mentioning someone was in prison for bad things isn't a crime, it's a public service

11. The "AI" (Slop) Bubble is Already Imploding

    "ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds"

12. The So-called "Sexy" Buckets (AI, Quantum) Cannot Save IBM From Reality, Shares Tank

    "No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."

13. Paul Krugman is Wrong About the Scope of Mass Layoffs in the United States

    A few years ago society was accelerating its journey towards feudalism, boosted by COVID-19

14. Links 23/10/2025: Proprietary Blunders and CISA's Latest Disclosure of Holes

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 23/10/2025: Fast Past (F1), 99.9% Uptime

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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