Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 14, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM is Becoming "Garbage In, Garbage Out" (GIGO) "Just like Arvind and Krabanaugh." (CEO and CFO, Respectively)

   There are some decent new comments about IBM this morning

2. If Your Company Lost About 30% of Its 'Value' in 3 Months, Then Maybe It Was Never Worth What You Claimed

   Does that make sense?

3. Pleroma is Dying

   The last social control media that I joined was Pleroma

4. Asia and Social Control Media

   statCounter reckons it's down from over 10% to just 3% since it began tracking those things

5. Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly

   Promoting GNU/Linux and condemning people who attack GNU/Linux is not a crime

6. Decades-Long Microsofter (Darryl K. Taft) and TIOBE Conflate Microsoft GitHub (Proprietary) With FOSS in Microsoft-Sponsored 'News' Site

   We do not intend to do a lengthy debunking because we covered this subject several times in the past

7. Microsoft Cuts Continue, Visitor Center in Redmond Shut Down

   This goes on and on, leading up to the next giant wave of mass layoffs

   New

8. IBM's Accounting Claims Don't Add Up

   IBM is an enigma. To Wall Street is claims to be doing extremely well, but insiders tell the complete opposite.

9. Links 13/02/2026: "Cofounders Fleeing MElon’s xAI" and IOC Opposes Solidarity With Ukraine's Fallen

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 13/02/2026: Square Function with Diode Network and Calls Against Discord

    Links for the day

11. Links 13/02/2026: SUSE Uses Microsoft Internally, MElon's Company Helps Turn Epstein Files Into Child Abuse (After the Pornography Scandals)

    Links for the day

12. African Browser Choices Show a Growing Problem in the World Wide Web

    World Wide Web (WWW) becoming little but a transport layer for a particular proprietary application (Google Chrome) [...] we're back to the late 1990s

13. If You Want Digital Freedom, Then Follow Richard Stallman, the "Linux" Brand Has Changed and OSI is Microsoft (GitHub)

    If you want something stable and predictable, then stick with GNU, the GPL, and GCC

14. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and SRA Failing to Curb SLAPPs Against People Who Expose Wrongdoing

    We'll soon show messages that we transmitted to politicians

15. Beware the Latest IBM SPAM, IBM is Already Down "After Hours"

    After a harsh day in Wall Street IBM's shares area already down again (after trading hours)

16. Radicalism in Our Communities is Mostly Corporate, Not Grassroots

    Infiltration and systematic destruction can be shallowly painted as "inducing manners"

17. Life Gets Better After Social Control Media

    Don't become part of these experiments

18. statCounter Suggests Americans Are Dumping Social Control Media

    Are Americans getting fed up with social control media and quitting in droves?

19. Back Doors and Fake Security

    They've militarised everything, even people's home computers

20. Cost-Cutting and Book-Cooking at IBM

    It's like cutting salaries by more than 50%

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 12, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, February 12, 2026

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