Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Dances With Wolves, Wakes Up With Fleas

   Small minds say "td;dr" whereas the rest say, "give me information, give me time to study it"...

2. Garrett Does Not Just Try to Cover Up for Himself, He's Clearly Covering Up for His Mates From Microsoft (and Admits Third Parties Fund His Litigation, With Their Legal Bills Estimates Already Approaching $1,000,000)

   They have already sent us about 75 KG of legal papers. How is any judge supposed to keep up?

3. Richard Stallman in the United States - Part IV - Back to Switzerland

   The "cancel mob" tried to "finish off" RMS 5 years ago

4. GNU/Linux Seen as Rising to 20% in Eritrea, But That's statCounter Identifying "Unknown" as GNU/Linux

   What if statCounter managed to figure out what all those "unknowns" are?

   New

5. Under IBM, Some Fedora Blog Posts Have Become LLM Slop! (Red Hat is Doomed by Slop Fanaticism)

   Who would even bother reading such trash?

6. Lots of People Leaving IBM Today

   IBM cannot be trusted

7. LLM Slop Rare and Scarce This Friday

   We still hope that by the end of this year slop will become nearly extinct

8. Defending British Democracy From American Predators

   We stand united and strong in the face of predators

9. Links 06/03/2026: LLM Prompt-injection Vulnerability in Microsoft's Proprietary GitHub, "260,000 Federal Jobs Lost"

   Links for the day

10. It's Friday and Many People Publicly Announce Leaving IBM (Which is Engineering 'Willful' Departures to Mask RAs' Scale)

    We understand from whistleblowers that IBM already destroyed Red Hat's culture

11. Dr. Richard Stallman (RMS), the Man Whose Mind Scares GAFAM et al, Began Speaking in Switzerland

    His ideas and ideals are not obscene

12. Gemini Links 06/03/2026: "Setting up the Feed" and Using Molly Brown

    Links for the day

13. Links 06/03/2026: Can't Copyright Slop in US, Microsoft Became Slop Provider for Militarism

    Links for the day

14. Threats Issued to Daniel Pocock Having Launched the JuristGate Web Site Which Covers Financial Fraud in "Legal Insurance" Clothing

    Is our world governed by laws or by rich corporations (or nations/superpowers) with well-connected lawyers/politicians?

15. International Women's Day: At the EPO, for Women to Become Managers They Need to Sleep With Well-connected Men and Mingle With Corrupt Men

    Sunday is International Women's Day

16. Dr. Richard Stallman Starts His Talks in Switzerland in 8 Hours

    They try to assess how many people plan to attend to ensure everyone gets a seat (without compromising the privacy/identity of those attending)

17. IBM Red Hat Layoffs: It's Not About "AI"

    "Automation" is not "AI", it's just a generic term which can describe jobs left for machines to do, sometimes computers

18. Microsoft Windows Used to be Identified on Over 99% of Web Requests From Benin. Now It's Around 50%.

    Or a lot less

19. Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Has Severe Financial Problems, Version Inflation ("GPT-5.4") is Mindless Hype and a Misleading Distraction

    In practice, both users and sponsors of ChaffGPT are fleeing

20. The Techrights Static Site Generator (SSG) Turns 5 Next Year

    It's still under active development in our Git servers

21. New XBox Boss (Sharma) Implicitly Confirmed XBox (the Console) is Now Dead

    Vista 11 is now also known as "XBox"

22. Murder as a 'Joke' to GAFAM People (Sociopathy)

    When it comes to Microsoft and Salesforce, they profit from this mentality

23. Microsoft ‘Project Helix’ is Just a Tweet in MElon's "X"

    Some "tweet" is easy, as words are cheap

24. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 4 Out of 200: Rianne’s Version of Events and Narrative

    today we tell Rianne's experience

25. EPO Staff to 'Meet' This Coming Tuesday to Plan Industrial Actions Including Upcoming Strikes

    using Microsoft spyware to organise this can be an own goal because Microsoft serves the dictators, not the union that tries to topple them

26. Thousands of EPO Workers Rally Against EPO Management

    The staff is furious to see what became of the EPC and the EPO. This is not sustainable.

27. In Argentina Firefox is Measured at Only 1%, Google Chrome (Proprietary) at About 90%

    And it has long been that way

28. IBM's March 2026 Layoffs Already Happening (to Accelerate Soon in Europe and America)

    We're probably seeing some of the last years of IBM and it's anything but certain that IBM can survive the coming decade

29. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

30. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 05, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, March 05, 2026

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