Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Linuxsecurity, and Google News Getting Even Worse (More Slopfarms Added Which Attack Linux With Bruce-Force SPAM)

   Google News is part of the same problem

2. Microsoft Staff Harassing Women, Strangling Women, Telling Women to Kill Themselves and Worse? Not a Problem!

   Two women have left Brett Wilson LLP

   New

3. Happy Independence Day to Our American Readers

   Maybe tomorrow will be a good opportunity to explain to American people - in terms of concepts, not brands - which tools respect their independence

4. Links 03/07/2025: More Cuts and Cancellations at Microsoft Revealed

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 03/07/2025: Favourite Child and Launching WikiGem

   Links for the day

6. Mystery Surrounding the PCLinuxOS Sites and PCLinuxOS Magazine

   Let's hope this isn't something major

7. People and Companies Do Learn Some Lessons From Their Mistakes (Stubborn Ones Don't)

   Brett Wilson LLP is an example of one that would rather drown in mistakes

8. Links 03/07/2025: 'Hey Hi' Slop Ridiculed Some More and Microsoft's Layoffs Tally for 2025 Reaches About 29,000 in Just 6 Months (Almost 5,000 Per Month)

   Links for the day

9. The Slopfarms Are Losing the Plot (and Google is Propping Up Rogue Sites)

   Google is part of the attack on the Web, on information, and on technology

10. New BetaNews Realises There's No Potential or Future in Slopfarms, Prior Editor Wayne Williams is Back

    They realise that slop (so-called "AI") cannot replace humans

11. Claims That Microsoft Looks for Staff That Works More and Gets Paid Less (or Can Only Code by Grabbing Other People's Code, Under the Guise of "AI")

    People can form their own opinion

12. Richard Stallman Was Right About Reasons Not to Use Microsoft

    last updated 2017

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 02, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, July 02, 2025

15. Gemini Links 03/07/2025: No to Cloudflare and Small Web July

    Links for the day

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