Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 07, 2026

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

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