Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM Layoffs Definitely Still Happening

   Contrary to what some apologists try to say

2. Don't Use the Future Tense to Discuss the Slop Bubble

   Wall Street does not react to reality; it reacts to panic, which is related to expectations

3. The Broken Window Industry and Its Ongoing Desires to Make Technology Less Dependable

   Reliable computing is becoming harder to find

4. New XBox CEO Typecast in Social Control Media

   Microsoft apologists will fall back on (or shuffle between) the "racist" and "sexist" angle

5. Sites Without JavaScript Deserve Your Visits

   We're not arguing that the Web should be as simple or barebones like Gemini Protocol/GemText

6. EPO Strikes Are Already Working

   Campinos is already going "into hiding"

   New

7. More and More Projects Quit Microsoft GitHub This Year, XBox Will See the Same

   Microsoft GitHub's embrace of slop as "strategic" gives us a clue of what'll happen to XBox very soon

8. Google "Intelligence": Despite Slam-Dunk or "Smoking Gun" Proof, Drug Abuse in EPO Leadership is "Unverified Allegations"

   Google's slop (so-called 'AI') lacks intelligence

9. 8,000 Pages/Articles Per Year

   We're eager to maintain a good production/publication pace and illuminate the sinister attempts to interfere with Freedom of the Press in the UK

10. Gemini Links 22/02/2026: Okonomiyaki and Midcrunch Crisis

    Links for the day

11. Freedom Means Accepting He or She Who is Different

    In the Debian community we're sadly seeing some authoritarian overreach this month

12. Microsoft Windows Falls to Another New All-Time Low in Guatemala, It is a Bottomless Pit

    Maybe users come to realise that Windows means back doors and those doors are open to a regime that ought not be trusted

13. "XBox" Will Become Slop After Mass Layoffs

    When all else fails, "AI it"

14. Links 22/02/2026: Hardware Price Hikes Across the Board, "Microsoft Issues Statement on Potential Layoffs"

    Links for the day

15. Microsoft "Layoffs Incoming"

    This transition isn't about promoting games; it's about canning the console

16. Links 22/02/2026: "Bloat of Modern Fitness Apps" and Wikipedia Deprecates Archive.today

    Links for the day

17. Our IRC 5-Year Anniversary (for Self-Hosted) is Fast Approaching

    A week from now it's March already

18. Gemini Links 22/02/2026: Dream Job Gone and Slop in Taskwarrior

    Links for the day

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 21, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, February 21, 2026

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