Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 15, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Register MS is Profiting From Pyramid Schemes Run by Americans

   We cannot help but feel disgusted by what this publisher became

2. IBM: Hiring, Then Disposing of, Unpaid or Low-Paid European Staff to Spread or Play Up Buzzwords and Hype

   Like Google With "Summer of Code", this seems like a low-cost marketing stunt more than anything substantial

3. The Europe Conversation: The EPO Has Cocaine at the High-Level Management and Isn't Denying It

   Now we plan to ensure the matter is properly documented in European press

4. Corporate Media Helps IBM Relay Vapourware (Misinformation/Fake News)

   They compensate with words for a lack of compelling products

5. Web Searches Far Too Polluted, Gamed by LLM Slop and "Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems" (PISS)

   old articles are already getting difficult to find in mainstream search engines, even if they are still online

6. "AI" is a Lie. It Always Was. What They Call "AI" Is Not.

   This MSM does no favours to the economy

   New

7. Slopwatch: Almost a Majority of Google News is Now Slopfarms (Fake Sites, Fake Articles)

   Google News is noise

8. Gemini Links 14/11/2025: Boredom, "Twenty Percent Cooler", and Moving From Windows to Artix

   Links for the day

9. Links 14/11/2025: YouTube's Trap for Publishers, Lack of Accountability a Growing Legal Matter/Concern

   Links for the day

10. Many Times in the Past We Said That Microsoft Lunduke Was Becoming a Spokesperson/Voice for - and Occasionally Weaponising - 4Chan. He's Proving Us Right This Week.

    Stay away

11. Casual Reminder That We Also Publish GNU/Linux Stories and News Coverage in Tux Machines

    Without trust in our robustness (including fearlessness, not just success in protecting stories and sources) we'd not have come this far, nor would I devote my life to it

12. Links 14/11/2025: Goddard Space Center Abused by the White House, Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Expands (Cheetos Need Distraction)

    Links for the day

13. Hacking on Recipes

    Maybe, in due course perhaps, we can also release some of our own cooking recipes or "forks"

14. Privacy-respecting Metasearch Engine SearX/SearXNG Still Jailed by Microsoft

    The official site and code still sadly controlled by Microsoft

15. Our First Week of Our Twentieth Year

    My wife and I have had a very productive week here and in Tux Machines

16. Links 14/11/2025: Sleep Research, France to Suspend Pension 'Reform' Law, and Linux Foundation's Latest Openwashing

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 14/11/2025: KDE vs XFCE and Leaving the Web

    Links for the day

18. Google Admits It Lost Control of Slop (While Google Itself is Selling Slop, Currently Under the Name "Gemini" Instead of "Bard")

    Slop is nothing to be celebrated

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 13, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, November 13, 2025

21. Mozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary

    Who would still want to download Firefox?

22. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews

    becoming a slopfarm is a site's suicide

23. "Sponsored Posts" in The Register MS

    That's The Register MS in 2025

24. IBM RAs in India (Apparently)

    IBM is a bad place to work

25. Another Richard Stallman Talk in Two Days

    His talk will be a remote talk, as he won't be travelling to Argentina

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