Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 22, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The Brand 'Watsonx' is a Terrible Name for IBM 'Hey Hi' (Chatbots) Because Watson Agreed With Adolf Hitler

   Almost a century has passed and IBM still believes that selling "intelligence", chatbots in particular, should be done under the name "Watson"

2. Digg's Latest Incarnation Already Failed, It's Infested With LLM Slop

   Many submissions go to slopfarms and some get summarised by slop

3. Microsoft-Controlled Media With Embargo and Press Operatives

   This won't be the last example of media manipulation for narrative control or face-saving "damage control"

4. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part III - It's in His Eyes

   Workers are free to draw their own conclusions

   New

5. GNU/Linux Grew a Lot in Nicaragua

   We've not noticed until today

6. Techrights Has Over 1,000 Good Articles 'in the Tank'

   Drafts, notes, and lengthy documents

7. New Article Challenges Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Choosing the Wrong SLAPP Cases to Investigate

   The one point we can agree on is that SRA does not know how to correctly select the worst culprits/offenders

8. Why IBM is Still Scary and Dangerous

   Keep a distance from "Big Blue" Bully

9. Measuring the Growth of Our Mission and Community

   Something between experiment and prototype

10. Richard Stallman in the United States - Part III - Georgia Tech Did a Fine Job Upholding Free Speech Principles

    The real problem was social control media (toxic)

11. Debian's Master is Deleting Criticism of SystemD and Other Things (On-Topic and Published by Debian Developers), Resorts to the Excuse Messages Are "Too Long"

    Censorship serves nobody except the masters that control this censorship

12. Gemini Links 21/02/2026: Veganism and DeskPi RackMate T0

    Links for the day

13. On The Web, XBox Already a Dying Breed

    Down to about 0.05% on large machines, based on statCounter [...] Microsoft will never publicly admit or say how many billions it lost on the XBox

14. 2026 a Year of 'Top-Down' Microsoft Layoffs (Management First)

    Stay tuned for what comes next

15. Your "Likes" Aren't Yours and They're Mostly "Worthless Clicks"

    Social hermits are not popular, irrespective of how many "Facebook friends" or "likes" they get

16. Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied, There Are Definitely Microsoft Layoffs

    Microsoft never issued a formal statement, it made allusions by proxy

17. Slop Hype Makes Our Core Technology Less Reliable and Far Less Resilient (We Pay for the Catastrophe That Follows)

    Only slop-free projects can be trusted

18. Going for 1,000 (Days of Uptime)

    universal records are vastly better

19. Firefox is No-Go in China, Not Even 1% "Market Share" Anymore

    Given Mozilla's utterly rubbish marketing these days (politics over technical aspects), set aside the cheerleading for slop, there's hardly a chance of Mozilla Firefox reaching or exceeding 10% again

20. Links 21/02/2026: Tensions Over Iran and Illegal Cheeto Tariffs, Presidential Approval Sags

    Links for the day

21. Links 21/02/2026: "Moving Away From Cloudflare", Many Layoffs or Shutdowns in Games (Including XBox/Microsoft)

    Links for the day

22. GNU Linux-libre is a Grown-Up Today

    "before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources"

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 20, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, February 20, 2026

25. Gemini Links 21/02/2026: "The Evil of Action" and Slop Bots Causing Great Harm Online (Not Just the Web)

    Links for the day

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