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These are the current Techrights headlines as of 2025-11-14 17:10 GMT signaled with semaphore flags.

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1 readyThe Register MS is Profiting From Pyramid Schemes Run by Americans (updated)

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2 readyIBM: Hiring, Then Disposing of, Unpaid or Low-Paid European Staff to Spread or Play Up Buzzwords and Hype (updated)

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3 readyThe Europe Conversation: The EPO Has Cocaine at the High-Level Management and Isn't Denying It (updated)

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4 readyCorporate Media Helps IBM Relay Vapourware (Misinformation/Fake News) (updated)

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5 readyWeb Searches Far Too Polluted, Gamed by LLM Slop and "Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems" (PISS) (updated)

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6 ready"AI" is a Lie. It Always Was. What They Call "AI" Is Not. (updated)

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7 readyLinks 14/11/2025: YouTube's Trap for Publishers, Lack of Accountability a Growing Legal Matter/Concern

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8 readyMany Times in the Past We Said That Microsoft Lunduke Was Becoming a Spokesperson/Voice for - and Occasionally Weaponising - 4Chan. He's Proving Us Right This Week.

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9 readyCasual Reminder That We Also Publish GNU/Linux Stories and News Coverage in Tux Machines

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10 readyLinks 14/11/2025: Goddard Space Center Abused by the White House, Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Expands (Cheetos Need Distraction)

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11 readyHacking on Recipes

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12 readyPrivacy-respecting Metasearch Engine SearX/SearXNG Still Jailed by Microsoft

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13 readyOur First Week of Our Twentieth Year

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14 readyLinks 14/11/2025: Sleep Research, France to Suspend Pension 'Reform' Law, and Linux Foundation's Latest Openwashing

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15 readyGemini Links 14/11/2025: KDE vs XFCE and Leaving the Web

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16 readyGoogle Admits It Lost Control of Slop (While Google Itself is Selling Slop, Currently Under the Name "Gemini" Instead of "Bard")

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17 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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18 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 13, 2025

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19 readyMozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary

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20 readySlopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews

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21 ready"Sponsored Posts" in The Register MS

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22 readyIBM RAs in India (Apparently)

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23 readyAnother Richard Stallman Talk in Two Days

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24 readyLinks 13/11/2025: "Fight for Control Over In-Car Technology" and "Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis"

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25 readyGemini Links 13/11/2025: Disbelief in the Moon Landings and Doom That Came to Scrolling

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26 readyA Month After "End of 10" analytics.usa.gov Says More People Use Vista 7 Than Use Vista 11

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27 readyLinks 13/11/2025: Ghost (E-mails) of Jeffrey Epstein Chases Cheeto, Uproar Over SLAPP Threats Against British Broadcasters

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28 readyIBM Layoffs Seem to Have Reached Europe

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29 readyA Lot of What's Left of the Online "Media" is Paid-for SPAM

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30 readySynopsys, Which Controls a Microsoft FUD Operation (Black Duck), to Lay Off Hundreds of Workers

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31 readyThe EPO Has Spent Years Attacking European Media, Led by a Cocaine Addict (the EPO's Spokesperson)

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32 readyProminent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe)

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33 readyTechrights Protects Against Collective Amnesia (Forgetting History the Rich and Powerful Want Us to Forget or be Misled About)

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34 readyMainstream Media Compliments Techrights on Its Work

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35 readyMicrosoft-Sponsored FSFE is Exploiting the Success of Jean-Baptiste Kempf to Market Itself and Its GAFAM-Funded Messaging (While Pretending to be "FSF" Europe)

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36 readyA Week of Techrights Search

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37 readyLLMs Will Never Work, You Need to Type What You Know

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38 readyYour Computers Are Work and Entertainment Tools, Not a Fashion Statement

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39 readyThe Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.

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40 readyUnder IBM, Red Hat Isn't a Linux Company, It's Sold to Clients as "AI Company"

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41 readyIBM Will Carry on or Carry Out Mass Layoffs Until Tomorrow, Based on Unverified Claim (Silent Layoffs Under Secrecy Clauses/Deals)

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42 readyIt Looks Like Microsoft is Really Abandoning XBox (the Brand "XBox" Means Just an Online "Games Store" or Streaming)

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43 readyThe Register MS Has Just Taken Money to Promote Microsoft Windows Under the Guise of "HEY HI" (AI)

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44 readyApple is Waning, Shows Data (Web Stats)

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45 readyIBM is a Buzzwords Vendor

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46 readyIt's Patently False That Apple Has Avoided Layoffs

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47 readyIRC.com is Vendor-Locked (Freenode)

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48 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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49 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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50 readySlopwatch: Spam, Scams, and Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems (LLMs)

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51 readyIBM "Trying to Memory Hole the RA With Positive News."

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52 readyGemini Links 13/11/2025: Pictures From the Aurora and Cryptography of the Internet

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53 readyLinks 12/11/2025: Botulism Outbreak and Increased Russian Censorship

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54 readyBritish Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next...

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55 readyThe Open Web Has Fallen, It's Just Chrome

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56 readyPatients' Data Should Not be Outsourced to Any Party at All, Let's Redo the Storage Scheme

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57 readyThe EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About the EPO's Management Faking "Production" (Monopolies) to Make More Money

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58 readyThe Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) is Playing With Fire and Now It Puts the Largest One (EU) at Risk

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59 readyEthical Consumer Could Use a Mention of "Ethical Software"

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60 readyLinks 12/11/2025: A US President (Insurrectionist) Attacking British Media, Hyundai's Digital Restrictions (DRM)

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61 readyGemini Links 12/11/2025: Trains in Switzerland, Software Survival, and More

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62 readyThe EPO's Own 'Drug Bust': Berenguer is Gone, But Who Else?

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63 readyTrying to Cancel People and Projects That You Don't Like by Changing the Focus to Politics

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64 readyWhat Kind of Bubble is AI? We'll Find Out Very Soon

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65 readyMandrake's Gaƫl Duval Debunks Clickbait Nonsense From ZDNet, a Non-Coder Pushing Bot-Made 'Code' (Plagiarism Done Poorly)

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66 readyImproving Clarity When Presenting LLM Slop and Slop Images

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67 readyGroklaw Won't be the Latest (Nor the Last) Major Site We Lose

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68 readySlopwatch Turns 1 Next Month

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69 readyThe Issue With Firefox is Not Its Brand

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70 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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71 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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