Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Hopefully Slopwatch is Dying

   Some of the offending sites we used to keep abreast of descended into a lull

   New

2. Links 06/12/2025: Science, Hardware, and Slop Fatigue

   Links for the day

3. Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Here Are All the E-mail Addresses

   We'll say more about this next week

4. Links 06/12/2025: Panic in the Slop (Chatbots) Industry and Perplexity Sued by New York Times for Plagiarising Articles Under Guise of "AI"

   Links for the day

5. European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council

   use their native language/tongue

6. European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council

   Perfect timing might be Sunday or Monday

7. Why We'll Continue Our IBM/Red Hat Focus in 2026

   There will be many more departures not only later this month but also next month

8. Links 06/12/2025: Slop's "Jeopardy Phenomenon" and RAM Shortage

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 06/12/2025: Memories, "Sweetness and Burn", and Hope

   Links for the day

10. Every Site That Uses Clownflare Had Worse Downtime/Uptime Record Than Ours

    And the same goes for Azure and AWS

11. Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Work for Freedom, It Works to Secure the Massive Salary of Its President And Executive Director

    We must be very effective then

12. Why (and When) I Become an 'Activist' Against Corruption and Abuse

    The dictatorship bans criticism of the dictatorship. That's when there's a deadlock.

13. EPO Call for Action: Get Ready to Contact Your National Delegates, We Need to Remind Them That They Represent People

    Today or tomorrow we'll publish contact details for national representatives in nearly 50 European nations

14. Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash"

    Links for the day

15. Like With Red Hat and Other IBM Acquisitions, the RAs (Layoffs) Seem to Already Extend to HashiCorp

    Of course it is possible that HashiCorp staff just got PIP'ed or saw the writings on the wall and left [...] IBM is just a dying giant

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, December 05, 2025

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