Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2025

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1. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part IV: There Cannot be Free Software Without Free Press and Free Information

   One day, one can hope, more people will recognise that for Software Freedom we need free press and free thinkers

2. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part III: Principled Stance Is Never Cheap

   Protecting the truth and insisting that the general public is made aware of things that really happened isn't cheap

3. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part II: Because Scarcity of Accurate Information Breeds Collective Ignorance

   we too will strive to share information that's aggressively suppressed

4. Gemini Links 28/10/2025: More New Arrivals at Geminispace, xkcd on "Document Forgery"

   Links for the day

5. Join Us Now and Share the News - Part I: Defence of the Truth

   This year we make a very strong, firm statement for truth, even if that means explaining our work to the top media judge in the country

6. Links 28/10/2025: Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) Age-Restricted Down Under, "Britain Needs China’s Money"

   Links for the day

7. Links 28/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon and Charter to Cut 1,200 Jobs

   Links for the day

8. The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested

   Background: High-level manager at the European Patent Office caught in public with cocaine, arrested

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 27, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, October 27, 2025

11. Google News Drowning in Slop (and Slopfarms That Hijack About Half the Results)

    Google News seems to be drowning in this stuff

12. Gemini Links 28/10/2025: "How to Maximize Your Positive Impact" and ASCII Art and Artist Attribution

    Links for the day

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