Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 12, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM's Payroll: Cannot Even Pay the People What They're Legally Entitled to

   How financially-stressed is IBM at this point?

2. IBM 'Dinobabies' Speak Out

   "They want newbies out of school at a much cheaper rate"

   New

3. Slop About "linux" in Google News

   Once people recognise that those sites are fake it's hard to 'unsee' what they are

4. An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part V - Attempts to Take Down and Suppress Criticism of Back Doors Controlled by Microsoft and the American Government

   The cost of maintaining illusions

5. Slides From the European Patent Office (EPO) Explain Why They're Striking, How They're Striking, and What Comes Next

   A week from now the strike will go ahead

6. GAFAM Datacentres Are Facilities of War, So Risk of Downtime by Missiles or State-Sponsored Cracking Has Vastly Increased

   How safe is your business in "clown computing" or DCs marked as some "legitimate targets" at wartime?

7. Companies That Take Away Blood and Sweat From the Community to Sell a Ponzi Scheme to Everybody

   We need Free software that is run by communities

8. 1,234 People Gather Online to Plan Next EPO Strikes and Other Industrial Actions

   yesterday an online gathering orchestrated the next moves by EPO staff

9. Links 11/03/2026: Fake Videos Swarm YouTube, "Ukraine Can Now Manufacture ‘China-Free’ Drones"

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 11/03/2026: Lagrange for iOS and Android and "Turning a Folder of Git Repos Into Project Launcher"

    Links for the day

11. Kafkaesque: Unlawful Activities in the UK to Cover Up Unlawful Activities in the United States of America

    Why is bribery and even extortion seen is OK? Because rich people do those things?

12. Former IBM Executive, Ron Hovsepian, Doomed S.u.S.E. (SUSE)

    SUSE is like a child nobody wants to raise

13. Quiet Layoffs or Silent Layoffs Alleged at Microsoft

    Will some investigative journalists do their job now and ask Microsoft tough questions?

14. After a Long Lull LinuxTeck (linuxteck.com) Came Back Only as a Slopfarm

    Unlike Linuxiac, LinuxTeck wasn't very active in recent years

15. Links 11/03/2026: EPO and USPTO Software Patents Thrown Out Again, Copyright Concerns Over Slop (Plagiarism Using Buzzwords)

    Links for the day

16. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 9 Out of 200: 5RB Barrister Does Not Even Know the Name of His Own Client (That He Was Paid Well Over $200,000 to 'Speak' or 'Cover' for)

    If you assault women in the United States, there's a barrister available for you in the UK

17. IBM's Fedora is Now Led by GAFAM Slop

    The official word of Fedora is partly slop

18. Links 11/03/2026: "Drill, Baby, Drill" and Social Control Media Recognised as Threat to Democracy

    Links for the day

19. 5 Years Since Freenode Conflict

    IRC isn't going away

20. A Week Ahead of Next EPO Strike the Staff Representatives Show the Administrative Council That the Office Lost the Best Staff, It's No Longer Attractive

    the message circulated regarding the open letter to the Administrative Council

21. Jeff Bezos as an Individual Said to Have Enough Capital to Buy IBM

    Assuming a market capitalisation of 234.70 billion

22. Starting Soon: Another New Series About Richard Stallman

    There are some inside stories we can tell

23. Gemini Links 11/03/2026: School, Code Slop, and "Fancy Weapons"

    Links for the day

24. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

25. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 10, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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