Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 23, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. This Saturday It's Gonna be 3.5 Years* Since Russia Invaded Ukraine. No Microsoft Protests Against Microsoft Having Provided Russia With Services.

   Companies do not have consistent policies and enforcement of "corporate values" is somewhat of an egg salad

   New

2. Microsoft Has Issues in Guyana

   It's not just Guyana

3. About 25% of the "Linux" News/Results in Google News Today Are LLM Slop, Almost 20% From the Same Rogue Operators of Slopfarms

   Google, which tries to market itself as an LLM giant, apparently fails to understand what's wrong with it

4. Harassing People on Holiday

   There are "no-go areas"; but that assumes all laws firms have ethical standards

5. The Great, Undeniable Value of Paper Trail, Not Purely Digital Systems

   Suppose you have nothing but bits on someone else's computer and "word of mouth"...

6. The Company Behind Ars Technica, Reddit and Wired Caught Publishing LLM Slop (It Also Admits It Now)

   Condé Nast busted

7. Links 22/08/2025: Lagrange 1.18.8, Wired Magazine and Business Insider Caught Resorting to LLM Slop

   Links for the day

8. Links 22/08/2025: Cisco Layoffs, LA Times Says "AI Hype is Fading Fast"

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 22/08/2025: K for Kentucky and Caddy Versus LLM Slopbots

   Links for the day

10. The "End Software Patents" Initiative of the FSF Explains "WHY [to] ABOLISH SOFTWARE PATENTS"

    We hope to cover patent-related issues more and more as the big anniversary of the FSF approaches

11. Freenode Sniffing

    The grown-ups left the building

12. The Only Thing Worse Than Misinformation is Misinformation Sold to Everyone as "Intelligence"

    Misplaced trust is worse than none at all

13. The Register MS Now Openly Admits LLM Hype Does Damage, But It's Also Being Paid to Participate in the LLM Hype (With Paid 'Articles' and 'Webcasts' for Paying Advertisers)

    The Register MS gets paid to do this

14. End of the Smartphone Era? No.

    Maybe the media should focus on producing accurate, factual news

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 21, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, August 21, 2025

17. Enshittification of Airports, Airlines, and Airplanes

    If people are willing to tolerate standard declines and enshittification (nowadays sold as "pivot to AI" or "replaced by AI" or "AI layoffs") they will pay for it some other way

18. Latest Is Not Greatest: The Case of "Foldable" Tech

    don't be shamed into abandoning old things just because the "fashion industry" of Apple and Samsung tells you to

19. Airlines and Their Tricks That Only Work in the 'Digital Age'

    People sceptical of the direction technology has taken are not "Luddites"

20. Open Source Initiative (OSI), Which Became a Propaganda Front of Microsoft and "Hey Hi" (Hype, Misnomer), Wants You to Forget These Scandals

    A lot of these issues won't be set aside until there's a resolution

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