Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Governments That Financially Benefit (Profit) From the EPO Have a Long History of Covering Up Fraud and Corruption at the EPO

   Many people are aware of it, even some of the biggest EPO stakeholders

2. "Open" "AI" is Going Bankrupt, Appealing for Government Bailout

   The writings have been on the wall for years

3. "Secure Boot": Stop Trying to Boot Into GNU/Linux, Use Vista 11 Instead

   It's all about reducing the user's cybersecurity under the false guise of improving it

4. LowEndBox Resorts to Ableism to Smear Software Freedom

   Not some "low-level" pundit but an administrator

   New

5. Our Time in London

   10 Days Ago We Were Down in London

6. Giving Red Hat a Second Life and Second Chance: Drop the LLM Slop, Stop Publishing Promotion of LLMs or Text Made by LLMs

   For Red Hat to earn more trust it needs to quit participating in the biggest "pump and dump" pyramid scheme since the 1990s

7. Gemini Links 09/11/2025: Garden Room Complete, FreeBSD 15.0 on the ThinkPad T480, and Known Gemini Caspules Sorted by Number of URLs

   Links for the day

8. Links 09/11/2025: Fung-wong Strikes Maharlika, "Open" "AI" Wants Taxpayers to Give It Bailout Money

   Links for the day

9. Links 09/11/2025: "Avoid MSI Graphics Like the Plague", Harms of Social Control Media More Widely Recognised

   Links for the day

10. Rocky Linux's Embrace of Mindless Cargo Cults Will Harm Rocky Linux in the Long Run

    focus on technology, not marketing that defrauds many people and plagiarises many producers

11. Many of Red Hat's Official Blog Posts Seem to be Fake, Written at Least Partly by Bots (LLM Slop)

    Can one trust Red Hat on technical things if it cannot even write words?

12. Suggestions Regarding Techrights Search

    In some cases, Daily Links also serve to obscure our original articles

13. Reaffirming Rumours of More Microsoft Layoffs, Halo Impacted, XBox Business Winding Down

    XBox has a huge target painted on its bum

14. This is What We Always Wanted to Spend Our Time on

    2026 will probably be our most productive ever

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, November 08, 2025

    IRC logs for Saturday, November 08, 2025

17. IBM is Destroying Red Hat (by Extension, It Also Harms GNU/Linux)

    IBM is where things come to die, more so in the past decade or so

18. Austrian Media Coverage of Luis Berenguer's (Top EPO Official) Getting Busted for Cocaine

    This wasn't some rich tourist caught by cops, it was a local official whom they busted

19. This Coming Thursday EPO Staff Meets Online to Discuss the Salaries Going Down While Stoned Managers Increase Their Own

    compensation going down relative to inflation and other factors

20. Misinformation of IBM Spread via LLM Slop

    Since a lot of sites now rely on LLMs we can expect the corporations' lies to be perpetuated by bots. That includes the myths of IBM Red Hat.

21. Gemini Links 09/11/2025: File Managers and DPC Commissioner

    Links for the day

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