Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 25, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Sounds Like Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Ran Out of Money to Borrow

   Maybe in 2026 slop will be scarce enough that eventually, maybe by year's end, we'll manage to just ignore it.

2. Links 24/12/2025: US TACOs on "China Chip Tariffs Until 2027", Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops

   Links for the day

   New

3. In India, Staff Works on Christmas Eve, Becomes Unemployed (Last Day)

   The company fires based on how "expensive" workers are more often than based on their productivity

4. Links 24/12/2025: Cheeto President "Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files", Windows to be Replaced by Slop?

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 24/12/2025: Tea, Love During Pain, and Gaming This Year

   Links for the day

6. GAFAM is a Bubble, Nothing is Free in This World

   Nothing is free in the world

7. My New CD Player/Stereo Didn't Even Last a Year, My CD Player/Stereo From the Early 1990s Still Works

   That helped reaffirm what I said in recent years about production/manufacturing standards of "modern" things

8. GitHub Isn't Free, Microsoft Subsidises It (Losses) to Entrap You Inside Proprietary Software, Now Come the Fees

   GitHub was never free

9. XBox Console is Dead, "Microsoft is Rethinking What XBox is"

   So XBox is now "cloud"

10. IBM SkillsBuild: Teaching Slop to People

    What skills does that give? Making more slopfarms?

11. Maybe 2026 Will be the Last Year of António Campinos

    Europe's patent system is run by thugs and it serves thugs

12. 2025: The Year LLM Slop Rose to Prominence and Then Fell

    the slop hype is bound to end

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 23, 2025

    IRC logs for Tuesday, December 23, 2025

15. Links 24/12/2025: Spotify Surveillance and Shadow Over Rule of Law in Hong Kong

    Links for the day

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