Techrights46m
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; ...
Techrights39m
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 ...
Techrights18hOpinion
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 ...
Techrights3h
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 ...
Techrights12h
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 ...
Opinion
Techrights21hOpinion
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 ...
Techrights21h
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 ...
Opinion
Techrights18hOpinion
The State of EPO Staff's Health in Rijswijk or The Hague
The Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) has disseminated a new publication about wellbeing of the European Patent Office's (EPO) staff under the autocrat António Campinos, who compels the staff to ...
Techrights1dOpinion
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
Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Self's blog ( RSS Feed) is promoting Software Freedom quite well. It also uses neat and light software (back end), not ...
Techrights1d
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 ...
Techrights2dOpinion
LLM Slop as Attack Vector on the Reputation of Linux
Microsoft truly hates Linux, it only pretends otherwise. Microsoft knows that as long as GNU/Linux exists it'll struggle to ...