Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 08, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Reddit as a Hive of Trolls, Social Control Media Curated (Many Voices Censored and Banned) by Marketing Firm of GAFAM

   Typical Reddit

2. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part III - Women Failing Women to Help Violent Americans From Microsoft

   Summed up, SRA will gladly prioritise the "legal industry" over women strangled, raped etc

3. The World Gets Smaller, as Does Its Real Economy ('Human Resources') and So-called 'Natural Resources' (What Humans Call the Planet)

   Don't talk about "AI"

4. Converting FOSDEM Talk on Software Patents in Europe Into Formats That Work for "FOS" and Don't Have Software Patent Traps

   transcoded version of the video

5. Biggest "AI Companies" (Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft) Borrowed (Additional Debt) About $100,000,000,000 in a Year

   Who will be held accountable for all this?

6. In 2009 Microsoft Was Valued at ~150 Billion Dollars, Now They Tell Us Microsoft Lost ~1,000 Billion Dollars in Value. Does That Make Sense?

   Or Microsoft lost 700 billion dollars in "value" in less than two weeks

   New

7. Links 07/02/2026: Misinformation by Slop, Overrated Slop Causes Stock Market Panic

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 07/02/2026: Diode Function Generators and Panic Over Buzzwords and Slop

   Links for the day

9. A Can of WORMS - Part III - Envying the Influence and Accomplishments of RMS, Socially Deleterious Attacks on Popular Movements

   the actions are deliberate and coordinated, not some 'organic' or grassroots behaviour

10. Crisis teams assembled as financial regulators anticipate Bitcoin implosion

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Links 07/02/2026: More White House Racism, "Europe Accuses TikTok of Addictive Design"

    Links for the day

12. Silent Mass Layoffs: It's Not the Revolution, It's the Loophole and the Hack ("Low Performers" or "Underperformers")

    Layoffs by another approach

13. Mark Shuttleworth (MS) Pays Salaries to Microsoft (MS) Employees

    Canonical selling Microsoft

14. Links 07/02/2026: Windows TCO Rising, Lousy Patents Invalided

    Links for the day

15. Microsoft Leadership: Stop Taxing Us, Tax Only Poor People

    Does Microsoft create jobs?

16. In Case You've Missed It (ICYMI), Google's Debt More Than Doubled in a Year

    Wait till it "monetises" billions of GMail users with slop

17. PIPs and Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Still Going on, It's "Forever Layoffs" (to Skirt the WARN Act)

    American workers out

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 06, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, February 06, 2026

20. Stressful Times for Team Campinos ("Alicante Mafia") at Europe's Second-Largest Institution

    Keep pushing

21. Growing Discrimination in the European Patent Office (EPO)

    it's a race to the bottom, basically

22. Google News Drowning in (or Actively Promoting) Slopfarms Again

    LLM slop is a nuisance

23. Microsoft Stock Crashed When Alleged Vista 11 Numbers Disclosed

    And last summer Microsoft indicated that it had lost 400 million Windows users

24. Gemini Links 07/02/2026: "Choosing a License for Literary Work" and "Social Media Is Not Social Networking (Anymore)"

    Links for the day

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