Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Patients' Data Should Not be Outsourced to Any Party at All, Let's Redo the Storage Scheme

   Far better than giving all our data to Microsoft and Palantir (US)

2. The Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) is Playing With Fire and Now It Puts the Largest One (EU) at Risk

   The EPO will have some more shake-ups

3. The EPO's Own 'Drug Bust': Berenguer is Gone, But Who Else?

   EPO latest news

4. Improving Clarity When Presenting LLM Slop and Slop Images

   There will likely be more changes (improvements) to improve the visibility of our labels

   New

5. Links 12/11/2025: Botulism Outbreak and Increased Russian Censorship

   Links for the day

6. British Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next...

   The not-so-drop-in replacement

7. The Open Web Has Fallen, It's Just Chrome

   We cannot envision any other rendering engine (or "base") making any measurable headway

8. The EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About the EPO's Management Faking "Production" (Monopolies) to Make More Money

   The Central Staff Committee has a new communication

9. Ethical Consumer Could Use a Mention of "Ethical Software"

   Maybe the Free Software Foundation (FSF) can get in touch with them

10. Links 12/11/2025: A US President (Insurrectionist) Attacking British Media, Hyundai's Digital Restrictions (DRM)

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 12/11/2025: Trains in Switzerland, Software Survival, and More

    Links for the day

12. Trying to Cancel People and Projects That You Don't Like by Changing the Focus to Politics

    Don't fall for it

13. What Kind of Bubble is AI? We'll Find Out Very Soon

    In 2022 and 2023 Cory Doctorow was one among many who asserted "AI" was a bubble

14. Mandrake's Gaël Duval Debunks Clickbait Nonsense From ZDNet, a Non-Coder Pushing Bot-Made 'Code' (Plagiarism Done Poorly)

    "Why AI won't "Kill Open Source”

15. Groklaw Won't be the Latest (Nor the Last) Major Site We Lose

    Many other sites will go offline; the more popular among those will get hijacked by rogue actors

16. Slopwatch Turns 1 Next Month

    2024-12-14 is when Slopwatch began

17. The Issue With Firefox is Not Its Brand

    Mozilla seems to be the biggest enemy of Firefox at this point

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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