Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Asking Spanish-Speaking Techrights Readers to Contact Spanish Journalists Regarding the "Alicante Mafia" (and EPO Cocainegate)

   Many people are suffering. We hear from them. Requesting intervention by our readers.

2. The Control of Twitter (Now X.com) and of Its Userbase Used to Fake 'Demand' for the Failed, Stagnant Chatbot of MElon

   Trashing Twitter(.com)

   New

3. Disconnected From 'Cyber Monday' and Other Fake Holidays

   No Christmas shopping in November!

4. Gemini Links 30/11/2025: Manufacturing, OpenTTD, and Decentralising the IP Address

   Links for the day

5. Gossip or Rumours Say Another Large Wave of IBM Layoffs Starts in the New Year

   IBM really needs an immediate leadership change. This is urgent.

6. Longtime Reader of Techrights Explains How Malicious and Dangerous UEFI 'Secure Boot', TPM, and Vista 11 Are

   From PCLinuxOS Magazine

7. Famous Due to Wealth Versus Famous Owing to Accomplishment/s

   Aspirations of fame are misguided

8. Social Control Media, Now 'Infused' With Chatbots (Fake Activity Because Real Users or Actual Humans Leave)

   It's irrelevant to so many people

9. Links 30/11/2025: China’s Pooh-tin to "Crack Down on Online Misconduct", Tragedy in Hong Kong Leaves Hundreds Dead and Many Critics Censored

   Links for the day

10. Links 30/11/2025: Many Data Breaches, Unnecessary Escalations in Venezuela as Jeffrey Epstein Files Nearing Partial Disclosure, "Optical Illusion of Prosperity"

    Links for the day

11. Vista 11: OS Not Found

    Vista 7 and Vista 10 are there, but not Vista 8 and Vista 11 (which both failed miserably)

12. IBM's Stock is Tied to Vapourware ("Quantum Bets") and Circular Financing Scam ("AI")

    Remember the time IBM professed to be a leader in "blockchain"?

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, November 29, 2025

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