Techrights20h
LLM Scrapers Are a Nuisance, But They're Also a Reminder It's Time to Make Your Site Static
One preventive measure then is changing the architecture of one's site or other services. Make them more robust to surges; ...
Techrights17hOpinion
Taking a Moral Stand Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and the Worst Offenders/Facilitators
For context, this firm emerged as a specialising in censoring publishers. Nowadays it loses a lot of staff (maybe a quarter ...
Opinion
Techrights8hOpinion
One Person's Take on Jef Spaleta, the New Fedora Project Leader
One Person's Take on Jef Spaleta, the New Fedora Project Leader. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2025, updated Apr 06, 2025. Some days ago IBM announced that another man had ...
Techrights8h
LLM Slop Has Virtually Killed unixmen.com and Many Other Sites
A couple of months ago we complained that unixmen.com had become a slopfarm and weeks later it pretty much died (as we had expected). unixmen.com just followed the typical lifecycle and today we can ...
Techrights20h
In Qatar GNU/Linux Rose From Under 1% to Over 4% in Two Years (or Over 5% If Counting ChromeOS)
And Bing fell sharply to 2%. There are many countries around the world ( yesterday we mentioned Japan) where GNU/Linux took off in a big way in recent years. One of those countries is Qatar. Judging ...
Techrights23h
France: Apple and Microsoft Down, GNU/Linux Up to New Record Levels
France and Germany are the latest economies in the EU and the GNU/Linux trends there have been encouraging this past year [ 1, 2 ]. We've only just noticed that this month in France GNU/Linux is ...
Techrights1dOpinion
Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
There's already ample documentation of similar cases, including some information from two months ago (regulators failing to ...
Opinion
Techrights1dOpinion
NVIDIA Corp Lost 36% of Its "Value" Since Cheeto Inauguration, But "Gen Hey Hi" (GenAI) is Totally Not a Bubble
NVIDIA Corp was riding a wave of mindless hype and was thus willing to invest in the hype, delaying rather than preventing the inevitable. All those GPUs that "flooded the market" will soon lose a lot ...
Techrights1d
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: What Was Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
A month ago the the Open Source Initiative (OSI) was reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). Now would be an OK time to examine the complaint and its nature, without focusing on ...
Techrights1d
GNU/Linux Growing in East Asia, Windows by Default No More?
In China, GNU/Linux rose to its highest level in 1.5 years (in South Korea Windows is down to its lowest point in 18 months ). GNU/Linux is now on the shelf (as in store shelves). Tariffs will also ...
Techrights2dOpinion
Traf-O-Data, the Company That Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) (Co)Founded 53 Years and Went Out of Business Due to Heavy Losses
Microsoft, an associate argues, stands for "50 years of anti-trust violations and shoddy code". We have many of these ...
Techrights2d
GNU/Linux Rises to Almost 5% in Algeria While Windows Sinks to All-Time Low
Checking some statistics for this month [ 1, 2 ], Microsoft's pain in Africa includes the north. Last year we saw GNU/Linux gains there (this month in Egypt and Libya it's the same), then Windows fell ...