Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Media Explains to Us Why It's Dangerous to Cover EPO's "Cocainegate"

   Does the EPO command the European media?

   New

2. Some People Still Being RAd at IBM This Week, According to Unverified Claims Online

   IBM is misleading shareholders

3. Gemini Links 19/11/2025: FlatCube, uBlock Origin, and More

   Links for the day

4. Luis Berenguer Giménez Claims to Still be at the EPO (European Patent Office), Even After His Replacement Following Cocaine Bust

   Look what sort of culture Campinos imported from the EU (EUIPO) to Bavaria

5. Censorship Doesn't Always Work

   Somehow we've managed to attract the wrath of some large corporations and organisations

6. Fake News Sites Made by LLMs Are Lying With Confidence (IBM and Red Hat Layoffs)

   Slop just doesn't work

7. Microsoft Lunduke Publicly Attacking Linus Torvalds Says a Lot About 4Chan Cult(ure)

   find some issues that sites like ours habitually explore/investigate/revisit, then add some lunatic spin on top of them

8. Europe Talks About "Digital Sovereignty" and Free Software in Europe is Where Things Should Start

   Time will tell if anything concrete can emerge from the above, as media reports certainly have not, at least not in English

9. Links 19/11/2025: Lawfare Against Greenpeace, Major British Newspaper Caught Using LLM Slop

   Links for the day

10. Links 19/11/2025: "Corporate-Government Censorship" by App Stores (Says ACLU) and Invalidation of Patent Trolls' Patents Sought

    Links for the day

11. Links 19/11/2025: Several Sites Admit Slop Bubble "About to Burst", US Government Tacitly Endorses Assassination of Journalists

    Links for the day

12. GNU/Linux Up to 5% in analytics.usa.gov, Apple and Microsoft Only Sell Fantasies

    As for Microsoft, it tries to rebrand Windows as "AI" something or "agentic" (AI) something because it's not selling well and Microsoft needs to engage in "creative" storytelling with shareholders

13. They Want to Take Humour Away

    If society starts gravitating towards jokes being taboo and abuse/violence/online trolling being "jokes" (they're not), we're worse off and more like North Korea

14. The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware

    it's a self-promotional plug for someone who came from Microsoft

15. Claims That IBM Research Brazil is Shutting Down, Japan Impacted Also

    As usual, the corporate media won't mention this

16. Links 19/11/2025: Google Nest Surveillance and Daily Telegraph Still Up for Sale

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 19/11/2025: "Slack is a Sauna" and ClaudeBot Nuisance

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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