Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 14, 2025,
updated Oct 14, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Investigative Journalism Protects Society From Corruption, Crimes Against Women, Assaults on Civil Society

   "what is the point of men doing military practice to defend a system that is so rotten?"

2. Swiss pimp usurping reputation of legendary Tissot boss Francois Thiébaud from France (BaselWorld, SWATCH Group SA)

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

3. Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in 3 Hours, Then in the Technical University of Munich (Germany) Next Week

   Richard Stallman at TUM on 21.10.2025 18:00, MW2001

4. Leaks and Whistleblowers: Our Plan for Today

   Society simply cannot advance when too many people self-censor

   New

5. The EPO's War on Techrights Was a Massive Mistake

   The EPO started the SLAPPs after we had published a few hundreds of articles; we've since then published close to 6,000 because the attacks on us emboldened insiders to help us

6. General-Purpose Computers to Become Growing Area of Coverage

   Without them, we have little left for controlling our lives

7. "They missed a great opportunity to shut up." -Jacques Chirac

   Brett Wilson LLP has been trying to cheat the legal system many times

8. Harassment evidence: Switzerland, overcrowded fitness and yoga centers, incompetence and racism in accident response

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Vincent Danjean & Debian NXIVM collateral, blackmail risks

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. In Sweden This Past Friday Richard Stallman Explained Why Copyleft is Important

    And he didn't have to 'bash' BSDs, either

11. Dystopian Trends in Technology Make Richard Stallman More Relevant Than Ever

    It's good to see him attracting vast audiences

12. IBM Layoffs Due to a Lack of Money and Company Debt Rising by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in 6 Months

    IBM didn't buy Red Hat for any ideological reasons; it was a fast "cash grab" for revenue

13. Forbes Already Stopped Being a News Sites. Now It's a Spam and Propaganda Platform for "Paying Partners" (Companies).

    news from Forbes became very scarce

14. Is the Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) Gradually Becoming More Like a Sweatshop?

    Underpaid, unqualified, inexperienced and incompatible people are already recruited to replace veteran examiners

15. The Register MS Has No FOSS Coverage Anymore

    The Editor in Chief is like a Microsoft plant

16. Links 13/10/2025: "Toasty Subwoofer" and WiFi Speakers "Are About To Go Dumb"

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 13/10/2025: iNaturalist and Tove Jansson’s Moominpappa at Sea

    Links for the day

18. Microsoft Does Not Deny That Large Retailers Like Walmart, Costco and Target Are Giving Up on XBox (and Not Stocking It)

    No doubt XBox is in trouble and rumours suggest that more mass layoffs are imminent

19. We'll Encourage Richard Stallman to Talk About Software Patents at the EPO Next Week When He Visits Munich (EPO Headquarters)

    Go listen to Richard Stahlmann

20. Arnaud Parreaux lost case defending rogue employer

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. Mathieu Elias Parreaux declared bankrupt in Switzerland

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

22. Breakdown of the Rule of Law and Patent Law in the European Union (EU)

    The EPO cannot recruit suitably qualified patent examiners this way, let alone retain them

23. Gemini Links 13/10/2025: Good Films, Wizard of Earthsea, Upgrading the Steam Controller's Stick

    Links for the day

24. It's Not Justice When One Side Denies the Other Side the Ability to Even Speak

    At this stage, Brett Wilson LLP is in my humble opinion acting in contempt of the Court

25. Links 13/10/2025: Australian Catholic University Uses Slop to Libel Students, Canada Threatens to Kill Beluga Whales

    Links for the day

26. How Not to Silence Tux Machines (It'll Only Backfire, Badly)

    defending Microsoft while attacking this site

27. Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT and Google News

    It seems abundantly clear that Google News and Google in general participates in the slop epidemic

28. Vincent Danjean (not INTERPOL), Claire Bardel & Debian pregnancy cluster

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

29. Christmas lynchings: Martin Krafft (madduck), Penny Leach (mjollnir) & Debian pregnancy cluster

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

30. Gemini Links 13/10/2025: Birthdays and "Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner"

    Links for the day

31. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

32. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 12, 2025

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