Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Photos From Richard Stallman's Talk in Argentina Earlier Today (Remote Talk)

   Dr. Stallman's talk went ahead

   New

2. Slopwatch: Google News Full of Slop

   Google News has serious problems

3. Gemini Links 16/11/2025: The Cure for Slop, Rapsberry Pi Zero 2 W, and POSIX from Ada

   Links for the day

4. NHS Data Breach Caused by Proprietary Software, as Usual, The Register MS Blames "Hackers" and "Cybercriminal Gang"

   Nothing will get solved unless we have a rethink and media quits using the "hacker" narrative, which shifts blame from the holes to those who merely exploit them

5. IBM is Vanishing (First Moving, Then Going Away Completely)

   Salary reduction is only the first step

6. Links 16/11/2025: Japan-China Tensions Grow, Surveillance Giant Google Checked for Breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)

   Links for the day

7. Links 16/11/2025: Censorship Battles and Margaret Sullivan Speaks

   Links for the day

8. German Media and German Politicians: Working for the Public or Manipulating the Public?

   The "common person" does not have printing presses

9. Informing the Public of Suppressed Facts

   We are all in this together

10. Canadian Linus Meets Finnish-American Linus

    LTT does have a very large audience, which it can steer away from Microsoft and Windows

11. The UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Discourages Technological Entities, Including Free Software Projects, Being Based in or Near the UK

    When it comes to IRC hosting, we never had any serious speech restrictions imposed upon us by the UK

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 15, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, November 15, 2025

14. Father of GNU Giving Keynote Talk Today, Father of Linux Collaborating With Linus Tech Tips (LTT)

    Some time soon we can expect Linus Tech Tips (LTT) / Linus Media Group / Linus Gabriel Sebastian to produce something with Torvalds

15. Gemini Links 16/11/2025: Emacs Font Fun and UI x TUI x CLI

    Links for the day

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