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These are the current Techrights headlines as of 2025-10-17 17:33 GMT signaled with semaphore flags.

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1 readySecurity is Desirable, But Not When the Term Security is Misused to Imply Centralisation of "Trust" (Whose?) (updated)

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2 readyThe Media Helps Microsoft, Amazon and Others (GAFAM and Beyond) Lie About Mass Layoffs Amid Valuation Bubble (updated)

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3 readyBad Tempered? You Might Have Just Given Away That You're Losing the Argument (updated)

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4 ready[Video] Dr. Richard Stallman at Technické Univerzitě v Liberci

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5 readySlopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal (Slashdot Media), UbuntuPIT, and Google News (Noise)

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6 readyLinks 17/10/2025: Better Answers Sought After Air Crashes, "China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up"

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7 readyLinks 17/10/2025: Fentanylware (CheeTok) Causing Problems, Japanese Government Blasts Slop

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8 readyThe Linux Foundation Seems to Have Turned Linux.com Not Only Into a Spamfarm But Also LLM Slopfarm

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9 readyLinks 17/10/2025: UK’s Largest Breach Penalty and Windows TCO Examples

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10 readyGo Watch Video About Librephone, Get Microsoft Ads

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11 readyCampaign of Defamation Against the People Who Built NixOS (and Are Now Pushed Out From Their Own Project)

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12 readyLinks 17/10/2025: Nestlé Crisis, Canada Post Versus 'Gig Economy' [sic] and Vista 11 Breaks Itself

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13 readyTux Machines Has Helped Separate Opinions/Analysis From News

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14 readyTux Machines Has Improved Navigation of GNU/Linux and BSD News

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15 readyWhat a World Would Look Like If Everyone Used Free Software Only

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16 readyRichard Stallman (RMS) is a Target of Defamation Campaigns Because of His Views on Software (But Politics Are the Excuse for Defaming Him)

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17 readyEnd of Vista 10 and Rise of GNU/Linux as Client Side Operating System

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18 readyTaking Stock of a Week's Worth of EPO Leaks

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19 readyMathieu Parreaux claims FINMA knew since day one

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20 readyCalumny, Libel, Joerg Jaspert & debian-private untouchable cyberbullies

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21 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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22 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 16, 2025

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23 readyTechrights Turns 19 in 3 Weeks

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24 readyInternational E-Waste Day Same Day as End of Vista 10

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25 readyThe EPO's Central Staff Committee Presents Evidence That Staff Compensation Lowered While the Office Increases Income by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents

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26 readySecond or Third Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in October 2025, This Time Portugal

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27 ready'Help Net Security' (helpnetsecurity.com) May Have Become a Slopfarm as Well

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28 readyGemini Links 17/10/2025: Rant About Network Solutions, Strange Anomaly on Lagrange

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29 readyEPO Staff Representation Lacks Social Dialogue With Relevant Management, Controversial and Sometimes Illegal Policies Implemented Without Necessary Input

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30 readyLinks 16/10/2025: Political Leftovers and Gemini Protocol Links

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31 readyLies Need to be Corrected

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32 readySlopwatch: Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com), Slashdot, Google News, and More

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33 readyLufthansa Modern Slavery, Joerg Jaspert (ganneff) & Debian NSB Softwareentwicklung charade

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34 readyLinks 16/10/2025: US Starting More Trade Wars With China, CIA War on Venezuela

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35 readySUSE Blog is Still LLM Slop, Marketing Manager at SUSE Cannot Write

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36 readyPretend You're Not Dead: Microsoft Spent Almost Two Decades Rebranding Things as "Cloud, Then "AI", Now "XBox" and "Quantum"

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37 readyIBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP)

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38 readyLinks 16/10/2025: Red Lines and Feeding of Microsoft Trolls

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39 readyMIT as a Propaganda Mill of GAFAM, Paid by GAFAM

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40 readyLinks 16/10/2025: Lies Euphemised as ‘Dueling Versions of Reality’ and Microsoft "Open" "Hey Hi" Resorts to Porn as No Business Model Was Found

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41 readyThe Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay

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42 readyAnother Black Eye for 'Secure Boot', Microsoft Media Tries to Blame "Linux"

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43 readySlopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux"

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44 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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45 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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46 readyLinks 16/10/2025: Increased Use of Social Control Media Surveillance in US, French Rage Over Pensions

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47 readyLinks 15/10/2025: Qantas Airways Loses Control of Sensitive Data and Software Patents Are Being Thrown Out

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48 readyVista 10 is 'Dead', Here's Why People Should Move to GNU/Linux (or the BSDs)

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49 readyOur Sites Continue to Improve

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50 readyGemini Links 15/10/2025: Neovim, Helix Compared and Gemlog.blue Now Closed

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51 readyLinks 15/10/2025: Mass Layoffs at Amazon, OneDrive Spyware Revved Up, More 'Gen Z Protests'

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52 readyThe EPO's Staff Engagement Survey 2025 is Already Tainted by Intimidation by EPO Management (Trying to Influence Outcomes by Scaring Genuine, Honest Critics)

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53 readyThe DDoS Attacks by Microsoft's Scam Altman and Other Slop Charlatans and Frauds is Hurting the FSF, Delinking It From Copyleft Projects

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54 readyMicrosoft Scanning Faces in Photos People Upload to Microsoft (Even Unconsciously), Slashdot Turns Report About It Into "Microsoft Sez" (Says)

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55 ready[Teaser] Angel Aledo Lopez the Manipulator (Nepotism, Poll Rigging, and Other EPO Corruption)

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56 readyAttacks on Techrights Are Only Making Techrights Bigger and Even More Popular

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57 readyEpic Metaphor for End of IBM: "The IBM Demolition is Down to the Last Shards!"

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58 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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59 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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60 readyProprietary and DRM Prisons Spiralling Down the Sinkhole? Not Just Yet.

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61 readyThe European Patent Office (EPO), the Second-Largest Institution in Europe, is Cracking Down on Recreational Activities

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62 readyTransparency: FSFE financial reports exclude speaker fees and expenses

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