Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Pissing Contests and Pissing Off Everyone

   people who came from Microsoft are trying to vex and divide the community

2. Microsoft Repeats the Mistakes Made by the EPO After We Exposed a Major Microsoft/EPO Scandal 10 Years Ago

   That scandal was all over the media, not just in English

3. Turns Out LLMs for Code Don't Save Time and Don't Improve Quality

   Neither legal nor useful

   New

4. The Demise of LLMs

   We've just checked BetaNews again. They've dropped all the slop and went back to human authors.

5. Gemini Links 13/07/2025: Sonpo Museum of Art and FCEUX

   Links for the day

6. Links 13/07/2025: UnitedHealth's Censorship Campaign, Australia Wary of China

   Links for the day

7. Firing Away With Nonsense

   Or fighting fire with fire

8. Links 13/07/2025: Climate Crisis, GAFAM Poisoning the Water

   Links for the day

9. The Microsofters Will Have an Obligation to Compensate Us

   This story isn't just about Microsoft. It's also about corruption, there are many women victims, there is abject "abuse of process", and many more scandals to be illuminated in years to come.

10. Reproducing at the EPO Instead of Producing Monopolies for Foreign Monopolies With Their Price-Fixing Cartels

    Does the EPO recognise the need of well-educated Europeans to bear kids?

11. Valnet Inc. Dominates Real (Not LLM Slop) GNU/Linux Coverage in 2025

    And likely in prior years, too

12. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Fund Raiser Goes on

    Later this month we'll expose another OSI scandal

13. EPO Staff Representatives Issue a Warning About Staff's Health and Inadequate Care

    Even the EPO's own stakeholders (money sources) are openly protesting against what the EPO became

14. Links 13/07/2025: Partly Assorted News From Deutsche Welle and CBC

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 13/07/2025: Board Games and Battle Styles

    Gemini Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, July 12, 2025

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