Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 31, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Why Would Anybody be Afraid of Talking to Richard Stallman?

   We need to get rid of the baseless stigma

2. EPO on Strike

   organisation operating outside the Rule of Law

3. Affirming What We Already Know: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is Profoundly Incompetent

   "SRA ordered to pay solicitor £50k in costs after failed prosecution"

   New

4. Gemini Links 30/01/2026: Love and Cultivation, Gemtext Anchors

   Links for the day

5. Will Jim Zemlin Also Sell His Daughter or Only the "Linux" Brand (and Linux Foundation) to Bill Epsteingate?

   Torvalds "ate a bug"

6. The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited

   This E-mail was sent around the time an arrest was made for pedophilia

7. Only One in 33 EPO Staff Voting on the Strike Opposed It

   Kudos to all those who participated in the strike

8. Still Hoping for "Slop Zero" in 2026

   We've also noticed that linuxiac.com shows a glimmer of hope this week

9. Links 30/01/2026: Waymo Crashing Into 'Small People' (Children), Microsoft at Risk Due to Slop Debt

   Links for the day

10. Amutable’s Management and Founders Are 100% Microsoft!

    It'll be focused on promoting Microsoft's agenda in everything it does

11. IBM Tries to Get Rid of Workers Without Paying Them (and It Appears to be Working)

    be sure to speak to people who actually work there

12. He Has No Money, But He Has Power, He Has a Voice

    That's why they envy and attack him

13. Free Software in Swiss Media This Week

    RMS is still going places with his Migros bag (Swiss retail giant)

14. TV Programs Disseminate False Numbers of Microsoft Layoffs (About 31,000 Laid Off Last Year, Not Including PIPs, Contractors and so on)

    large-scale layoffs are inevitable, no matter how long Microsoft delays or procrastinates

15. Links 30/01/2026: Microsoft's "OpenAI Is Headed For Bankruptcy" and Bitcoin Crashes

    Links for the day

16. Amutable is a Microsoft Proxy Like Xamarin, With Some IBM/Red Hat Staff Added for Good Measure

    Amutable chasing money and trying to impose TPM etc. on everybody

17. The Letter Sent to the Ringleader of the Alicante Mafia This Week

    Call for industrial actions to stop the salary erosion of EPO staff

18. Oracle's Debt Exploded by 22 Billion Dollars in 6 Months, the Ponzi Scheme With Scam Altman Was Classic 'Pump and Dump'

    The founder of Oracle now uses his wealth for right-wing ideological reasons, nothing else

19. Facebook ('Meta') is Dead Meat, This GAFAM Company's Debt Exploded by Almost 33 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months (11 Billion Per Month)

    we can expect many sales/contracts to get canceled

20. Australia's top nurse takes on Musk, Zuckerberg & rogue health influencers, birthkeepers

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

21. The "Alicante Mafia" - Part XVI - The Associates of Mr. Cocainegate Don't Want to Talk About Cocainegate (Right of Reply)

    Nobody wanted to talk about cocaine at the EPO

22. The "Open Source" (Corporate Openwashing) Fake Community Rejects Democracy, Open Source Initiative is in Effect Dead

    This is basically the end of the OSI

23. Cracks and Holes in Microsoft's Slop Bubble (Also, Windows is Declining)

    "More Bad News For Xbox As Microsoft Blames Gaming For An Annual Decline In Its PC Business"

24. Microsoft's Debt Exploded by More Than 20 Billion Dollars This Past Year, Says Microsoft

    Expect more mass layoffs

25. Strike at the EPO Today

    Next month we'll start a new EPO series

26. State of the Slop and The Register MS Runs Ads as 'Articles'

    Yesterday we could not find much slop about "Linux"

27. Gemini Links 30/01/2026: Announcing Crossyword and SYN Attack

    Links for the day

28. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

29. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, January 29, 2026

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