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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2025

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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
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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