Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. [Video] Richard Stallman on Understanding the Misconception of So-called 'Artificial Intelligence'

   to "know and understand"

2. Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Lagrange 1.18.5 and Writing Mannerisms

   Links for the day

   New

3. Hiding Problems Doesn't Work

   transparent organisations will be more stable and sustainable

   New

4. FSF's Defective by Design (DBD): Amazon Tightens the Digital Handcuffs

   Reproduced verbatim

5. The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Plenty of Issues, Plenty of Censorship

   The OSI is abusive on many levels!

6. EPO Staff Appraisals Apparently Benefit Kakistocracy, Including Cheaters Who Grant Illegal Patents and Punish Good Patent Examiners (Who Find Valid Reasons for Denials)

   In prior reports the staff representatives said that rewards typically went to people who granted many patents, i.e. didn't do proper examination and instead just allowed many fake patents get enshrined as EPs, causing fiasco (from which some patent attorneys could profit)

7. As The Web Gets Drowned Out, Sinking in a Pool of LLM Slop, Real News Sites With Real News Become Increasingly Rare If Not Extinct

   This is a real problem

8. Links 09/03/2025: Moderna Patents Thrown Out, Climate United Sues E.P.A.

   Links for the day

9. Links 09/03/2025: FiveThirtyEight Killed by Disney, Nature (Journal) Chooses Suicide by Slop

   Links for the day

10. The Harder They Try to Censor, the Bigger the Scandal (and the Impact) Will Be

    We don't plan to self-censor our coverage; sometimes we just delay publication a little

11. Gemini Links 09/03/2025: Leasehold Derangement Syndrome, Raspberry Pi, and More

    Links for the day

12. All-Time Low for Microsoft in Africa

    it helps show how irrelevant Microsoft is becoming

13. French woman (frontaliere) trafficked to promote unauthorised cross border Swiss insurance

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

14. New York Times & Guardian reporting on Modern Slavery Act prosecution of Glodi Wabelua

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

15. Diana & Adrian von Bidder-Senn, EVP, Palm Sunday & Debian death on wedding day

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. The RTO (Return-to-office) Layoffs or 'Soft' Layoffs at IBM and Red Hat

    There are certainly many layoffs going on there, but many are described as "resignations" or "retirements" after RTO or some other form of relocation

    New

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 08, 2025

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