Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft XBox is Dying as More Retailers Stop Stocking It and Massive Layoffs Planned Again

   Microsoft is circling down the drain

2. Linux and the Freedom Paradox

   Linux is losing freedom if some external actors who only use Microsoft tools for development wrest control

   New

3. Links 05/10/2025: Slow News Day and Wondering About the Canada Post Walkout

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 05/10/2025: Telnet Debugging and The Programmer’s Brain

   Links for the day

5. More Than "Just a Rumour": XBox Seems to Have Just Died

   At this point, why would any studio out there target or partner with XBox?

6. How to Tell Your Community, Project or Company is Being Infiltrated by Saboteurs

   How to identify nefarious social engineering

7. The Fortieth Birthday of the FSF Made Us Extremely Happy

   It feels like the 'hacker community' is regrouping to discuss things and prepare for the next Big Challenge

8. Chat Control 2 Them, Not 2 U

   Follow the advice of Dr. Patrick Breyer

9. Mozilla: Throw Away Your "Old" PC and Enable "Digital Rights Management (DRM)"

   This is heading in a bad direction

10. Controlling Our Computing for Another Forty Years

    40 years of freedom

11. Motivational Small Place to Run Large Sites

    We deem this scenery motivational and inspiring

12. Techrights' Text Version (Daily Bulletin) Turns Five This Month

    our plain-text bulletins are turning 5 this month

13. We'll Continue Covering the Moribund OSI and Other Dysfunctional if Not Hostile Institutions

    Stefano Maffulli's departure is due to his defection and due to him failing the mission in pursuit of money (his salary)

14. Links 05/10/2025: Lufthansa Layoffs (4,000) and More Spotify Woes (Aside From Massive Debt)

    Links for the day

15. The Free Software Foundation's Livestream Has Ended, Video/s Might be Online Next

    I've asked whether they'll upload video of some of the event; I still wait for an answer

16. The Register MS Does Not Know the Difference Between Microsoft GitHub and GitLab

    At the time of writing (October 5) the article from "Thu 2 Oct 2025" remains uncorrected

17. "Bullshit Generators" (What RMS Calls LLMs) and Fake Images Already Target the FSF

    Why does Google News promote fake articles about the FSF while omitting all the real ones?

18. Software Patents as a Bubble

    Don't invest resources in hype; if you detect a bubble, run away from it

19. Links 05/10/2025: Political Leftovers, Climate Change, and Security Incidents

    Links for the day

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 04, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, October 04, 2025

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