Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 22, 2024

Updated This Past Day

1. Google Has Mass Layoffs (Again), But the Problem is Vastly Larger

   started as a rumour about January 2025

2. Electronic Frontier Foundation Defends Companies That Attack Free Speech Online (Follow the Money)

   One might joke that today's EFF has basically adopted the same stance as Donald Trump and has a "warm spot" for BRICS propaganda

   New

3. Links 21/12/2024: EU on Solidarity with Ukraine, Focus on Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court in the EU (UPC)

   Links for the day

4. [Meme] Microsofters at the End of David's Leash

   Hand holding the leash. Whose?

5. Deciphering Matt's Take on WordPress, Which is Under Attack From Microsofters-Funded Aggravator

   the money sponsoring the legal attacks on WordPress and on Matt is connected very closely to Microsoft

6. Gemini Links 21/12/2024: Projections, Dead Web ('Webapps' Replacing Pages), and Presentation of Pi-hole

   Links for the day

7. American Samoa One of the Sovereign States Where Windows Has Fallen Below 1% (and Stays Below It)

   the latest data plotted in LibreOffice

8. [Meme] Brian's Ravioli

   An article per minute?

9. Links 21/12/2024: "Hey Hi" (AI) or LLM Bubble Criticised by Mainstream Media, Oligarchs Try to Control and Shut Down US Government

   Links for the day

10. LLM Slop is Ruining the Media and Ruining the Web, Ignoring the Problem or the Principal Culprits (or the Slop Itself) Is Not Enough

    We need to encourage calling out the culprits (till they stop this poor conduct or misconduct)

11. Christmas FUD From Microsoft, Smearing "SSH" When the Real Issue is Microsoft Windows

    And since Microsoft's software contains back doors, only a fool would allow any part of SSH on Microsoft's environments, which should be presumed compromised

12. Paywalls, Bots, Spam, and Spyware is "Future of the Media" According to UK Press Gazette

    "managers want more LLM slop"

13. On BetaNews Latest Technology News: "We are moderately confident this text was [LLM Chatbot] generated"

    The future of newsrooms or another site circling down the drain with spam, slop, or both?

14. "The Real New Year" is Now

    Happy solstice

15. Microsoft OSI Reads Techrights Closely

    Microsoft OSI has also fraudulently attempted to censor Techrights several times over the years

16. "Warning About IBM's Labor Practices"

    IBM is not growing and its revenue is just "borrowed" from companies it is buying; a lot of this revenue gets spent paying the interest on considerable debt

17. [Meme] The Easier Way to Make Money

    With patents...

18. The Curse (to Microsoft) of the Faroe Islands

    The common factor there seems to be Apple

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 20, 2024

    IRC logs for Friday, December 20, 2024

21. Gemini Links 21/12/2024: Death of Mike Case, Slow and Sudden End of the Web

    Links for the day

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