Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Our Site Search Increases Our Editorial and Informational Independence

   Implementing our search facility is a long-term investment

2. Corruption is a Reality, It's Not a Dirty or a Strong Word

   Corruption is a topic some newspapers shy away from

   New

3. Links 08/11/2025: Climate Talk Unfruitful, OldVersion.com Archive Facing Shutdown

   Links for the day

4. IBM is Eliminating Red Hat Like It Eliminated Tivoli and Eliminated Cognos

   Be wary of IBM

5. Quitting One's Job Isn't Forbidden, Right?

   it's important to remind people that leaving one's job is perfectly OK

6. Being Absent/Missing From Social Control Media is Not a Sign of Weakness

   Broadly speaking, social control media is for losers

7. Empathy Online

   I recently learned from someone that running his Web site might hurt some feelings, even if the writings are truthful

8. Advocates of GNU/Linux and the Uphill Battles Behind Us

   GNU/Linux felt like "activism" 20 years ago. Now it's mainstream.

9. Cybersecurity Means Real Security, Not Back Doors

   Standing our ground on technology and cybersecurity is an uncompromisable stance

10. Links 08/11/2025: Disinformation Crisis, Denmark Recognises Threats Associated With Social Control Media

    Links for the day

11. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is Besieged for the Times It Does the Right Things

    As that upsets rich people's interests (and they were, at times, sponsors)

12. Links 08/11/2025: Technical and Financial GAFAM Woes and Arrests of Journalists by Despots

    Links for the day

13. Like SUSE, IBM Red Hat Seems to be Using LLM Slop to Write Fake (Bot-Generated) Blog Posts

    IBM Red Hat keeps promoting slop

14. How German Media Covered Cocainegate at The European Patent Office (EPO)

    At some point we'll ask that same press to revisit the issue and this time comment on the EPO connection

15. Our Launch of Techrights Search Has Been Successful (So Far)

    There are about 50,000 articles indexed there, going 19+ years back

16. Daniel Pocock Explains Social Engineering in Debian and Other Communities Increasingly Controlled by "Barons"

    Communities are not corporations

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 07, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, November 07, 2025

19. Rosanna Yuen & GNOME community triple tricked

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

20. Adrian & Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian: detailed history of a death

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. Crypto AG tricked ETH Zurich student internship

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

22. An Old Story of Fraud at the EPO in the Netherlands (and How the Dutch Government Facilitated It)

    We've already mentioned several other scandals where the the Dutch government engaged in fraud and passive corruption

23. Voicing Concerns About European Patent Office (EPO) in Rijswijk

    The report is dated yesterday

24. Gemini Links 08/11/2025: KeePassRX and Pluribus

    Links for the day

25. IBM Layoffs Not Done, Terminations of Staff in India, Brazil, and Mexico Reported

    This hopefully answers questions such as, "do the layoffs only impact US and Canada?"

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