Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 30, 2026,
updated Mar 30, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. People Discuss Rumours of Mass Layoffs at IBM Becoming Public in 1-2 Weeks

   IBM is killing its brand or its "goodwill"

2. The Old Days

   In the early days of this site (2006) it was mostly just a couple of people, plus comments

   New

3. No Daylight Saved

   Is there still any practical reason for this ritual?

4. Microsoft Azure Does Not Have "Hiring Freezes", It Has Had Mass Layoffs Every Year Since 2020

   Things are always a lot worse than Microsoft formally or publicly acknowledges

5. SLAPP Censorship - Part 27 Out of 200: Using the Tor Network to Hide From Consequences

   Only 1-2 weeks after the countersuit the Canadian attempted to deplatform several Web sites

6. The Limits of Inclusion

   Inclusion with caution isn't "opinionated"; it's a defence mechanism, sometimes a survival instinct

7. Almost 20 Years After Microsoft/Novell

   The mission has not changed, but the priorities evolve all the time

8. LLM Slop Kills Sites, as Sites That Adopt Slop Are Doomed

   People won't subscribe to such sites and visit them if they recognise it's just slop

9. Links 29/03/2026: Indonesia Cracks Down on Social Control Media Addiction, China Becomes World’s Scientific Superpower

   Links for the day

10. Fedora at the Mercy of Microsoft Because of Back-Doored Kick-Switch Boot

    We'll soon revisit the defamation attacks on Torvalds

11. Links 29/03/2026: Water Shortages and No Kings Rallies

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 29/03/2026: Return to Gopherspace, "Zen of Marking Playing Cards"

    Links for the day

13. The Real XBox is Dead, So Microsoft is Calling Everything "XBox" Now

    It even wanted to run a campaign to convince everybody that XBox is not actually a console

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 28, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, March 28, 2026

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