Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 13, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley

   Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley

   New

2. Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'"

   Links for the day

3. Gemini Links 12/12/2025: Bad Joke, Western Union Blues, and More

   Links for the day

4. Life Began at 40

   This is what I wanted to do all along

5. To Linus Torvalds, the Microsoft Linux Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand

   If Torvalds is no longer in control or "in charge", then somebody else is

6. EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO

   every call for action matters

7. IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well

   IBM is a collapsing, dying old brand

8. EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights

   So the EPO is in effect rewarding a cocaine addict

9. Litigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031

   The ultimate goal is to 1) improve the British legal system and 2) raise awareness of how this system works

10. Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)

    Links for the day

11. Developing Some New Software for the Sites

    Sites that are static are in more control over their future and present direction

12. "In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."

    ― Julian Assange

13. EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos

    video has been removed

14. What If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech)

    "AI" is an "Arms Race", because they need to be bailed out by taxpayers' money

15. Techrights Site Search Was a Success After All

    A few hiccups dealt with, ironed out

16. Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)

    Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).

17. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join

    We're glad to see the FSF paying respect to its founder in its Web site

18. 2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots)

    follow the money of the Ponzi scheme

19. Under IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat

    Whatever that even means

20. Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow

    Cybershow (Cyber|Show) has very good blog posts and episodes

21. Microsoft Trims More Jobs

    The worst layoff year in 20 years, by the numbers

22. EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit

    Looking back at the whole thing, it's clear to me that Europe does not really have free press

23. EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO

    Why won't any large publisher in Europe cover this? What does that say about the state of journalism in Europe?

24. "Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have

    A high price to pay, no?

25. New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)

    "Targets for 2026 are currently being handed down to individuals."

26. EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption

    That sort of sums up where European media/press stands

27. Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week

    The last time we rebooted into the latest stable kernel was 96 days ago

28. Afraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions

    Those corporations want us to bicker over words, not their actions

29. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

30. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, December 11, 2025

31. IBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies

    IBM's CEO is killing the cow

32. LLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce

    LLMs aren't dead, but metrics published online say that their usage is fast declining

33. Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered

    Links for the day

34. Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client

    Links for the day

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