Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 24, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Last Week's EPO Strike Was the Biggest (Highest Participation Rate), Hours Ago General Assembly Discussed Next (Growing) Intensity of Strikes

   Well done and well attended

   New

2. Gemini Links 23/03/2026: "Mandatory" Bad Things and Dangers of Perfection Aspirations

   Links for the day

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 20 Out of 200: All Roads Lead to Rome and to GAFAM Funding

   Now about 10% into this series

4. Mass Layoffs at HashiCorp, IBM Hid Them

   The media did not mention those layoffs

5. Microsoft Downgraded on Concerns (Lack of Growth) Amid Silent Layoffs in 2026

   The press isn't functioning anymore

6. Links 23/03/2026: Gulf Water at Risk, Heatwave in Malaysia

   Links for the day

7. Slop Means False, New Article by Cybershow

   "We are living in a world that is rapidly divesting from reality."

8. Debianism election 2026 community poll created, everybody can vote

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Links 23/03/2026: "Shocking Peter Thiel Antichrist Lectures", Robert Mueller Remembered

   Links for the day

10. The Scandal Bigger Than IBM/Red Hat Layoffs is the de Facto "Media Blackout" About Those Layoffs

    So we have a media crisis, aside from the economic crises

11. Gemini Links 23/03/2026: Geminispace/Elpher Enhancement and the Cerberus Cinco

    Links for the day

12. Fear is Not a Legitimate Factor

    Smart people know that trying to prevent moral people from doing the "Right Thing" will backfire

13. Fuel Autonomy and What It Teaches Us About Software Autonomy (or Software Freedom)

    Need we wait until a "software Pearl Harbor" or protect ourselves proactively by weaning ourselves off of GAFAMware?

14. Scheduled Maintenance This Coming Wednesday

    Other than that, all is the same and we carry on as usual

15. Most Press Articles About IBM Are LLM Slop, Sometimes With Slop Images

    IBM basically laid off almost 1,000 people last week [...] At the moment about 75% of the 'articles' we see about IBM (in recent days) are some kind of slop

16. Links 23/03/2026: Security Breaches, Energy Shortages, Another SRA Scandal, and Patents on Nature

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 22, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, March 22, 2026

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