Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 19, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 18/12/2025: Fake Videos in Social Control Media and "Oscars Move to YouTube from ABC"

   Links for the day

2. Gemini Links 18/12/2025: Fake Dynamic rendering Site and Connectivity in a Digital Age

   Links for the day

3. Links 18/12/2025: ZorinOS Raising Money, Canonical Giving Gifts to Microsoft

   Links for the day

4. XBox Sales Collapsed, XBox Cannot Survive

   2026 might be the last year of XBox consoles

5. Free Software Literature (Books) to Read This Holiday Season

   If you go ahead and buy a book, you not only support the FSF but also get something sent your way!

6. Next Year Windows XP Turns 25, Many People (Millions) Still Use It Because Windows Became Bloated and Unreliable

   The "Vista" OSes are all terrible, bloated, and highly restrictive

7. Running Our Own Network and Building Our Own Systems

   So we can sit back, relax, and be productive

8. EPO Coverage Will Resume When the Time is Right

   we didn't forget about the EPO

9. Slop Fatigue

   Only Linux Journal is seen pushing LLM slop today/yesterday

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 17, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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