Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights
Welcome to Techrights. Welcome to the current iteration of Techrights, online since 2006 with a major infrastructural upgrade in late 2022.Here you will find our latest posts. In addition to HTTP/HTTPS here, Techrights is also available via Gemini and IPFS editions, though the IPFS service is on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Just the other year, Techrights upgraded from a heavy content ...
Security Advisory: Debian falls for social engineering hacks
15 hours ago · The current Debian Project Leader, Andreas Tille, was elected on Hitler's birthday. The fact that my social engineering hack landed in Debian.org on 6 June, the anniversary of the D-Day landings, was a bonus. Here it is, Debian, under the influence of a German and Google, has confirmed that our freedoms are in liquidation.
Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too
5 days ago · Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 03, 2024, updated Nov 03, 2024. Is security a real goal? The chief used to be Microsoft staff despite Microsoft working on back doors.Now: SOMEONE has pointed out to us that, in the context of the Linux Foundation (LF), "strip-mining" of …
Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
4 days ago · Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2024. In the past we wrote dozens of articles about voting machines. The reason we bring this up today isn't to seed doubt and distrust but to explain things in context.. Later this week it already seems inevitable that there will be a war of words (or much worse) because some people - perhaps most ...
Techrights — The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic …
3 days ago · The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 05, 2024, updated Nov 05, 2024. Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists. At risk of showing falsehoods (blurred above), we wanted to say that the media is already parroting Trump's lies.
Techrights — Going Even Faster
15 hours ago · Going Even Faster. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2024. THE news became conspicuously slow after the US election (it feels like the weekend already) and we're getting prepared for more articles than before (we've published more than 100 pages/articles in the past 4 days; this is close to all-time highs).We hope the site will be faster soon (as in, pages will be served quickly) because we ...
Techrights — Microsoft's Collapse is Continuing
Oct 1, 2024 · The Microsofters were first to report: Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets. Microsoft has ended production of its HoloLens 2 headsets, with no sign of a replacement ahead. UploadVR reports that HoloLens 2 will still get “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until the end of 2027, but production ...
Techrights — Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV
Oct 21, 2024 · Technology: rights or responsibilities? - Part IV. posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 21, 2024, updated Oct 21, 2024. By Dr. Andy Farnell. Back to Part I. Back to Part II. Back to Part III "Responsibility" is a much more complex claim than it first appears and does not easily fall to the ableist objection nor to technological totalitarianism.
Techrights — Plans for the Site's 19th Year
Oct 2, 2024 · Plans for the Site's 19th Year. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2024. A single month from now begins our 19 th year as a site and next summer will be the start of our 18 th year as an IRC community, which continues to expand.Back in 2014 we focused a lot of our efforts, resources etc. on covering EPO scandals.
Techrights — Today in Techrights
Dec 11, 2023 · The Role of Publishers on the World Wide Web (and Gemini Protocol, Among Other Digital Transmission Protocols) social control media is a cesspool that spreads disinformation and hate, in turn fuelling wars and conflict. More Than a Week Has Passed, DeVault Has Declined to Deny Serious Accusations Against Him.