"No good deed goes unpunished" at the EPO. The European Patent Organisation (and European Patent Office) is basically operating in vacuum and disguises law-breaking with some chaff about diversity and ...

Switzerland is currently contemplating new laws to restrict Nazi salutes, Swastikas and other symbols such as Debian's ...

From what we can gather, based on online tools, some articles about ONLYOFFICE 8.3 seem to be getting the 'BetaNews treatment', which is aping using LLM slop: This is also "Latest Technology News", ...

WHEN people publish something about a "webinar", it's usually safe to assume it's a paid-for commercial or company running ads one can attend and watch live. When blogs like the above (a manager, not ...

Don't look at openai.com for growth. The estimated number of queries, based on the above survey, fell about three-fold in less than a year. Yes, it used to be estimated at about 1.8 billion, now it's ...

LAST year we saw Windows falling to new lows in Senegal, as measured by one surveyor. Well, the same one now sees it even lower (at 11.35%). Is Linus Torvalds free to express his mind as he wishes ...

If someone wants to run Arch under Windows, then one can use Free software like VirtualBox and adopt any version of Arch, running more "properly" and not under Microsoft's direct control. Of course ...

This month (or year) over in Macao Windows is falling to new all-time lows, a trend we began seeing around Christmastime after big gains for GNU/Linux last year [ 1, 2 ]. Macao isn't big, but like ...

It was all about Microsoft all along. Canonical just got paid to play along and essentially promote Windows (or tell people to stay with Microsoft and Windows). Canonical sold out. That was nearly a ...

PEOPLE are being silenced (censored) all the time, but we aren't told about it. That's just the very nature of the silencing. A lot of self-censorship means not removal but proactive silencing. It's ...

This is a subject that we explored before with a focus on Free software. Wars tend to lead to sanctions, which kind of puts Free software in a tough spot, making it the subject of scorn or ...