Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 25/10/2025: Portugal, Midnightpub, and "Tech Right Admins"

   Links for the day

2. Almost 2026 Already (When We Turn Twenty)

   In just over a year the site will turn 20

3. When "Sponsored Feature" in The Register MS Means Ponzi Scheme Promotion From the Communist Party of China (CPC)

   the promotion of a financial scam

4. Week of EPO Leaks: Workers of the EPO Are Getting a Pay Cut While Prices Rise Fast

   More to come in the next few days

5. Microsoft is Finally Giving Up on XBox, The Chief Says the Grapes Are Sour Anyway

   Microsoft loses hundreds of dollars on each XBox that it sells

6. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Various Slopfarms Propped up by Google News

   Why can't Google News do better than this?

7. Links 25/10/2025: Two New Smokescreens for Scam Altman and ‘TikTok USA’ Remains in Limbo

   Links for the day

8. Bad faith: can't change Debian Social Contract (DSC) without unanimous consent of every joint author

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Confirmed: Very Close Friend of Bill Gates and Microsoft's Biggest Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Flew the Lolita Express (a Gateway to Pedophilia), According to Bill Gates-Sponsored Seattle Times

   There is no speculation or any "conspiracy theories" here;' those are verified facts

10. Gemini Links 25/10/2025: "The Highest Leader of The Global Civil Society Community", SSL Certificates Causing Bitrot

    Links for the day

11. Links 25/10/2025: Target Layoffs and "Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks"

    Links for the day

12. "Big Data" Was a Big Lie

    Remember "Big Data"? Remember "Data Scientists"...?

13. statCounter Has Been Broken for a Long Time

    Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs

14. Techrights Anniversary Party on November 7th

    Let us know if you need any accommodation-related arrangements

15. Trends That Must Alarm Microsoft and Mozilla

    Expect Firefox to no longer be supported by various sites in the US

16. Why Microsoft Became the Layoffs Leader

    The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs

17. Speaking for Ourselves and Letting the Facts Speak for Themselves

    we've already published over 50,000 pages

18. For Second Time in a Day The Register MS Takes Money From Private Companies to Sell a Ponzi Scheme

    Do not have empathy for those who have zero empathy towards you

19. IBM is Misleading IBM Shareholders

    IBM is still all about vapourware and buzzwords

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, October 24, 2025

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