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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 07, 2026

Ah, ha! you are at last in my domain, little fool!

Updated This Past Day

  1. It's Not About Speed, It's About the Message (or Its Depth)
    Better to write news than to just link to news if there's commentary that the news may merit
  2. Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part IV - EPO Can Get Away With Murders, Suicide Clusters, and Systematic and Prolonged Bullying by 'Team Campinos' ("Alicante Mafia" as Insiders Call It)
    Nobody in the Council or the EU/EC/EP gives a damn as long as laws are broken to fabricate 'growth'
  3. Jeff Bezos Isn't Just Killing the Washington Post, He's Killing Thousands of News Sites/Newsrooms (in Dozens of Languages) That Rely on It for Many Decades Already
    Not just slopfarms; even the Ukraine-based reporters are culled by Bezos, who's looking to please the dictators of the world
  4. Central Staff Committee Confronted António Campinos for Giving His Cocaine-Addicted Friend Over 100,000 Euros to Do Nothing, Just Pretend to be Ill, While Cutting the Salaries of Everybody Else
    "On the agenda: Amicale framework & Financial assistance for courses"
  5. How to Win Lawsuits in 5 Simple Steps
    Keep issuing threats every week and send 60 kilograms of legal papers to the target
  6. Living in Freedom When 'False Flag Operations' Like EFF Get Captured by Billionaires to Take Freedom Away
    There are many ways to think of Software Freedom

    New

  7. Gemini Links 06/02/2026: Git and Email Patches; MNT Pocket Reform
    Links for the day
  8. Geminispace Net Growth in 2026 About a Capsule a Day
    A pace like this means net gain of ~300 per year, i.e. about the same as last year
  9. Benjamin Henrion Warned About the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC) in FOSDEM 2026
    Listen to Benjamin Henrion
  10. Economies Crashing Not Because of Slop Improving 'Efficiency' (That's a False Excuse) and 'Expensive' (Read: Qualified) Workers Discarded in Race to the Bottom
    Actual cocaine addicts are pushing out moral people
  11. IBM's CEO Speaks of Layoffs, Resorts to Mythical (False) Excuses
    This has nothing to do with slop
  12. Links 06/02/2026: Voter Intimidation and Press Shutdowns in US, Web Traffic Warped by LLM Sludge
    Links for the day
  13. Does Linux Torvalds Regret Having Dinners With Bill 'Russian Girls' Gates?
    See, the rules that govern the Linux Foundation and its big sponsors aren't the same rules that apply to all of us
  14. IBM: Cheapening Code, Cheapening Staff, Cheapening Everything
    IBM's management runs IBM like it's a local branch of McDonald's. IBM is a junk company with morbid innards.
  15. GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in One of the World's Largest Nations
    Democratic Republic Of The Congo
  16. Linux Foundation Operative Says We and Our Software All "Owe an Enormous Debt of Gratitude" to a Software Patents Reinforcer
    The only true solution is to entirely get rid of all software patents
  17. More Than 99% of "AI" Companies Aren't AI, They're Pure BS
    We need to discard those stupid debates about "AI" and reject media that gets paid to participate in such overt narrative control (manipulation like The Register MS)
  18. AI Used to Save Lives, Now "AI" is a Grifting Scheme That Burns the Planet and Will Crash the Economy
    What the media calls "AI" (it gets paid to call it that) is the same stuff that could instead be dubbed "algorithms"
  19. Amutable is a Microsoft Siege Against Freedom in GNU/Linux, Just Like the People Who Brought You 'Secure Boot' Controlled by Microsoft
    Do whatever is possible to avoid Amutable and its "products"
  20. Growing Focus on Publication
    Over the past ~10 days we always served more than a million Web hits per day
  21. "Going to be a large number of Microsoft layoffs announced soon"
    Everybody knows a giant wave of layoffs is coming Microsoft's way
  22. End of the 'GPU Bubble' and NVIDIA Finally Admits It Won't Bail Out Microsoft OpenAI Anymore
    circular financing (financial/accounting fraud)
  23. Corrupt Media Won't Hold Accountable Rich People for Role in Pedophilia
    Journalistic misconduct or malpractice is a real thing
  24. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  25. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 05, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, February 05, 2026
  26. EPO Management ("Alicante Mafia") Not Properly Sharing Information on Scale of Strikes by EPO Staff
    disproportionate (double) deductions in salaries against people who participate in strikes, which are protected by law
  27. Gemini Links 06/02/2026: Slop/Microslop, Home Assistant, and Valid Ex Commands
    Links for the day
  28. Blackmail evidence: Debian social engineering exposed in ClueCon 2024 talk on politics
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  29. Bitcoin crash: opportunity or the end game?
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  30. Changes at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
    SRA is basically a waste of money
  31. Claims That IBM Will Lay Off 20% (or 15%) of Its Workforce This Year Unless It Finds a Way to Push Them All Out by Threats, Shame, Guilt
    Where are the articles about IBM layoffs?
  32. IBM Isn't a Serious Company Anymore, It's a Ponzi Scheme Operated by a Clique and It Misuses Companies It Acquires to Prop Up or Legitimise the Scheme
    IBM seems like it's nothing but a "Scheme"
  33. Google News Drowning in Slop About "Linux" (Slopfarms Galore)
    Google should know better than to link to any of these slopfarms, but today's Google is itself a pusher of slop

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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