Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. The Register Bill

   The Register MS - putting the "MS" in your centre of the universe

   New

2. Microsoft Sites Now Talking About September's Mass Layoffs at Microsoft

   It's noteworthy that even Microsoft's MSN now covers the latest revelations about mass layoffs

3. Gemini Links 06/09/2025: SpellBinding Moving and "The Cloud" Ridiculed

   Links for the day

4. Slopwatch: On "the Apology Industry", Chatbots (Punchbag for Customers), and Fake Articles About "Linux"

   "news reporting priorities changed"

5. Links 06/09/2025: "Covid Incidence on the Rise" and Many Attacks on the Press Worldwide

   Links for the day

6. Nobody Denies That SecureBoot Will Cause Problems After September 11

   Not even Microsoft

7. Gemini Links 06/09/2025: Infinite Scrolling and Posting from Emacs

   Links for the day

8. Links 06/09/2025: GitHub Meltdown Over Slop, "U.S. Jury Says Google Should Pay $425 Million in Privacy Lawsuit"

   Links for the day

9. Despite Its Severe Financial Problems Gnome Foundation Inc Paid Rosanna Yuen Over 100,000 Dollars Last Year

   maybe relocation should be considered

10. The "Left" and the Right"

    It poisons everything

11. Mozilla and Rust Are Not Leftists

    they're part of the mass consumerism machine

12. Disposable to Microsoft

    There is an extensive set of people who got used by Microsoft, only to be thrown away a month later or a year later or a decade later

13. The UEFI 9/11 - Part VII - This Coming Week Many PCs Will Refuse to Boot "Linux" (Because of Microsoft's Expired Certificate)

    The real solution is, disable "secure boot" or "SecureBoot" while it's still possible. [...] Just like submarine patents, a lot of this problem was "hibernating" for a while

14. The Thing Nobody in Red Hat Wants to Talk About Openly

    There is a real sentiment or worry among Red Hatters, Europeans and Americans in particulars (because of higher salary expectations)

15. Slopwatch: Small Parade of Fake News About "Linux" and Scams Borrowing the Name (or Word) "Linux"

    In practice, LLMs are a risk

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 05, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, September 05, 2025

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