Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 05, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Ponzi Schemes Are Useful (to Corrupt CEOs)

   Pathetic, corruptible so-called 'media' is bagging bribes to perpetuate the lies about "AI" (slop)

   New

2. Gemini Links 04/01/2026: 64-bit Addressing and 39th Chaos Communication Congress

   Links for the day

3. Windows Was Always the Punchline

   What did we count to calculate taxes?

4. GNU/Linux Surges to About 4% in Peru This Year

   one of the poorest counties in America

5. This Year Our Adoption of IRC Turns 18

   We have used IRC for this site since 2008

6. The Doors Are Closing, Windows Closing Too

   Microsoft wants more vendor lock-in, but at risk that this desire will simply alienate and drive away many users

7. The FSF's Program Manager, Dr. Miriam Sabrina Bastian, Left in October to Lead Climate School

   We are not sure why Miriam Bastian decided to leave the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

8. Outline of Slop, LLMs, IBM, and Things to Come

   This coming week and weekend will be very productive irrespective of how much "news" gets published by other sites

9. Links 04/01/2026: War Without Borders, "Large Hadron Collider Being Shut Down"

   Links for the day

10. Links 04/01/2026: US Imperialism in Greenland and Venezuela, "Climate Protesters Face Greater Risk of Crackdown Amid Rising Authoritarianism"

    Links for the day

11. 2026 Should be the Year We All Stop Saying "AI" and Call Things What They Really Are

    Don't give anyone the satisfaction of this misguided belief there's any intelligence there

12. GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Algeria

    In 2026 it hit a new all-time high

13. Online Mobbing (and Worse) Disguised as 'Free Speech'

    People who say they believe in "free speech" have been trying hard to silence RMS and squash the FSF

14. A 'Cancer That Attaches Itself' to Bulgaria?

    "Cancer" is what Microsoft called GNU/Linux

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 03, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, January 03, 2026

17. Body-Shaming Using Fakes

    a lot of the people who casually claim "defamation" are themselves defaming loads of people every day

18. GNU/Linux "Market Share" in Switzerland More Than Doubled Last Year, Based on statCounter

    GNU/Linux continues its considerable growth

19. EPO People Power - Part XXIV - Today or Tomorrow You Should Write to National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO in Your Country

    Keep up the pressure!

20. Red Hat and IBM Layoffs, Staff Kept Quiet About it, WARN Act Skirted/WARN Notices Avoided

    What a terrible company to be in

21. XBox Layoffs Imminent, More Appalling Sales Figures Published

    Expect many layoffs in the gaming division

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