Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 19, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Estimates That IBM to Lay Off Close to 10,000 Workers in 2026 (Not Counting People Pushed Out)

   There's still chatter about Confluent mass layoffs

   New

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 15 Out of 200: Background and Particulars of Truth Regarding Techrights and Tux Machines

   the basic facts (this has aged well, except the times/ages/numbers)

3. A Slopfarms Survey for Today (linuxteck.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com)

   Not only did Google news link to a slopfarm; it linked to three run by the same team!

4. Links 18/03/2026: "Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down" Due to Slop Bubble, "Birdwatching for Fun and no Profit"

   Links for the day

5. IBM Red Hat is Still Promoting Restricted Boot Which Restricts Users' Control Over Their Computers

   Red Hat under IBM is a total catastrophe

6. Arvind Says... Something Something "Hey Hi" (the State of Today's Media)

   Look for news about IBM and most likely it'll boil down to some sound bites from an executive and nothing else

7. New Post Has Just Explained How IBM Gets Robbed by the People Who Fail IBM

   Their plan for IBM is a personal plan

8. Slop-Spewing GAFAM LLM That Knows Nothing and Understands Nothing, It's a Stochastic Parrot That Cannot Even Figure Out Tux Machines is a Community That Started in Tennessee 22 Years Ago

   RMS rightly calls those things "bullshit generators"

9. Cusdeb Makes New Presentation About Where GNU Hurd (Still a Possible Linux Replacement) Stands in 2026

   coming from a generally RMS-friendly account

10. Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Librarians, Phone Anxiety, Growing 'Small' Net, and Slop Versus Software Engineering

    Links for the day

11. Smug Threat by Garrett to Put My Family and I in Prison Doesn't Prove We Did Anything Wrong, It Only Proves He's Truly Desperate to Stop Further Publications That Embarrass Him

    his reputation is poor in the United States

12. systemd Increasingly Microsoft Project, Controlled by Microsoft and Slopware

    Cannot allow choice

13. What IBM Meant to Red Hat: "Proprietary Bundling, Restricted Source Access"

    Anyone or anything that joins IBM likely shortens its lifespan

14. IBM Thrashing Confluent Upon Arrival, Based on Rumours

    We deem it a bigger issue that investigative journalism perished, not that one must rely on hearsay online or mere "rumours"

15. Slop Is Plagiarism, Not (Vibe) Coding, and It's Not Automated, It Doesn't Save Money

    Reject misnomers, explain what's actually happening

16. UPC is Still Illegal and Unconstitutional (Kangaroo Court for Patents, Manned by Corporate Staff), Federal Court of Justice of Germany Receives Belated Complaint About It

    What is happening to Europe???

17. EPO Demonstration Happening Right Now, Later This Week Things Will Only Escalate Further

    The SUEPO The Hague Committee wrote to staff this morning

18. Links 18/03/2026: Commodore's Hedley Davis Dies, Apple Not Good Enough, Cheeto "Floats Treason Charges for Iran War Coverage"

    Links for the day

19. A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO)

    Not going to work all month long

20. EPO Staff Demonstration Today

    The demonstration will be live-streamed for those thousands of colleagues who don't live in Munich

21. Gemini Links 18/03/2026: Brazilian SYN Attacks and BGP

    Links for the day

22. LibreLocal Also Coming to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain

    It helps raise awareness of Software Freedom

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 17, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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