Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 25/03/2026: Nations Return to Russian Oil and Burning Wood

   Links for the day

2. Gnome Foundation Inc is in Trouble

   the agenda is set GAFAM and IBM rather than donors

   New

3. Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Resisting Authoritarianism and Why Slop Needs to Go Away

   Links for the day

4. Fedora Maintainer-ship Using Slop (Mistakes) Would Make Fedora Less Reliable

   It won't produce reliable code or stable systems one can rely upon

5. IBM's "Legacy Employees" (Experienced Workers, IBM Management Dubs Them 'Dinobabies')

   This notion of "legacy employees" seems like something overlapping with "expensive" (well paid) staff, even if not entirely equivalent

6. EPO's "Current Industrial Actions Are Likely to Intensify Further."

   There is another strike in 5 days

7. This Morning The Register MS Published Slop Promotion With the Term "AI" 15 Times In It. The Register MS Was (As Usual) Paid to Do This

   This is not a serious publisher

8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 23 Out of 200: We Were Right All Along (for 2 Years) About Third Party Funding and Willingness to 'Break the Bank' in Pursuit of "Revenge"

   How much damage can a person do to oneself in pursuit of cover-up of legitimate technical concerns?

9. Links 25/03/2026: Airports Further Militarised, "Slopification and Its Discontents", Microsoft 'Open' 'Hey Hi' Shutting Things Down

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 25/03/2026: Blogging Fright and Absolutely Useless 'Apps' Made by Slop Machines

    Links for the day

11. Rise in Energy Prices Will Significantly Accelerate the Death of So-called "AI Companies"

    It should be noted that fake news about Microsoft OpenAI doubling workforce (mere words, not actions) can serve as a nice distraction from the death of Sora due to divestment

12. It's Always a Question of Trust

    There's a widespread stigma of lawyers being manipulative and chronically dishonest

13. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Must More Carefully Investigate or Assess the Financial State of Law Firms in the UK

    We'll cover this in depth in the future

14. GAFAM Mozilla Removes Theora Support, Now GNU Needs to Re-encode Videos

    Mozilla used to mean something to Free software advocates

15. An Open Admission Profits Depend on Addiction

    Proprietary software tends to be like this

16. IBM Americas President Ayman Antoun Comes to OpenText, Weeks Ahead the Mass Layoffs Begin

    Is that what IBM will be good at?

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 24, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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