Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Parties and Milestones Again

   we've begun putting up about 40 balloons

2. Microsoft is Disloyal Towards Its Most Loyal Employees

   Against its most faithful enablers

3. Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top

   Even a million denials and spin-doctoring won't distract from the core issue

   New

4. PETA and Activism

   Being staff or volunteer in PETA isn't easy

5. Big Blue, Huge Debt

   debt will soar again

6. Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media

   Links for the day

7. Techrights' 19th Anniversary: Bronze

   Time to go back to preparing for this anniversary

8. Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions

   If nobody loses a job (or jobs) over this, then the EU basically became no better than Colombia or Nicaragua

9. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Google News

   We focus on stories that are fake or LLM slop that disguises itself as "news" about Linux

10. Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood

    Links for the day

11. This Site Could Not be Done by LLMs Even If It Wanted to (Because It's Not a Parrot of What Other Sites Say)

    LLMs have no knowledge or deep understanding

12. 19 Years, No Censorship

    No factual information is ever going to be removed, more so if it is in the public interest

13. We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us

    Throughout the week this week we'll be focusing on the EPO

14. The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine

    High-level manager at the European Patent Office (EPO) caught in public with cocaine, the Office has some answering to do

15. Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers

    Let's strive to put computers back under the control of their users, no matter who purchased these (usually the users)

16. Gemini Links 27/10/2025: Alhena 5.4.3 and Fixing Bash

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 26, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 26, 2025

19. Thankfully We've Made Copies of More Interesting Data From statCounter

    If statCounter (the Web site or the 'webapp') vanished overnight, we'd still have something left of it

20. More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat

    when the media counts such layoffs or presents tallies the numbers are very incomplete

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