Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 14, 2025

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1. IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently

   Good luck starting legal battles with a company that has almost as many lawyers (including aggressive patent lawyers) as it has geeks

2. Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

   Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems

3. It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team)

   Healthy companies would sack IBM's management (sacked by Board, bylaws etc.) but IBM is a sick company

4. Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published

   Less than a day ago they released his talk

5. LLM Slop Becoming Rarer

   Today we've found no LLM slop in our RSS feeds regarding "Linux"

   New

6. Google News is Google Noise

   Google News is really hopeless, even on weekends

7. Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes

   Links for the day

9. Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions

   Calling Torvalds anything "Soviet" or "Russian" would overlook the fact he comes from Finland and has Swedish roots

10. Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services

    Canonical started with a rich and overambitious Debian Developer. He wanted to become richer.

11. EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills

    We must all recognise that there's a problem here

12. Running With Technology

    At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)

13. Dealing With "Tech Cults"

    If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away

14. GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed

    Europe has plenty of skilled computer engineers

15. 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball

    It would be shocking is XBox can stage any kind of comeback

16. Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"

    Links for the day

17. Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions

    they see tough times ahead

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, December 12, 2025

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