Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 02, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 30 Out of 200: The Time We Reported Abuse to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and It Was Escalated to Its Cybercrime Unit

   he started trolling and harassing me for criticising his employers' monopolistic and users-hostile agenda

2. Hardly Seeing Slopfarms Today, Even in Google News

   Google's adventures with slop increased its debt significantly

   New

3. 'Modern' Cars Not a Rosy Industry

   The current "modern" cars already have a shelf life similar to that of many toothpastes

4. Wrongthink Detector and Filter in "Think About the Children" Clothing

   It is not about "age verification", it's a Trojan horse for social control

5. IBM Facilities Now Deemed Legitimate (Military) Target, Along With GAFAM Bases

   Does IBM have any defences in place to protect against "downtime by explosions"?

6. What Happens When Some Large News Sites Turn to Slop and Spew Out Nonsense

   LLM slop makes such grotesque mistakes abundant

7. Links 01/04/2026: Quantum Hype (Turing and Google), "US Fuel Prices Surge Past $4 a Gallon"

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 01/04/2026: "Sacred Week of Cycling" and Zenity for Scripts

   Links for the day

9. Losing Debian: Sruthi Chandran election flop

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. French judgment: parasitisme by FSFE & Matthias Kirschner (CO23.002709)

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Microsoft Uses April Fools to 'Joke' About Inserting "Age Verification" (Surveillance) Into Linux

    MinceR says the "lkml [message/page] one is April Fools or at least they're trying to pass it off as April Fools [however] the [GitHub] one was archived on the 8th and yesterday, so that probably isn't..."

12. IBM "Headcount Reductions" by Early Retirement and Death

    The tragedy at IBM started 33 years ago on the first of April

13. Red Hat: Latin-1 character set under threat from Bishop Michael Martin, North Carolina

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

14. Links 01/04/2026: Microsoft GitHub Now Pushing Ads Into People's Code/Commits, Earth Overshoot Day Draws Nearer

    Links for the day

15. What IBM and EPO Workers Have in Common: European Media Not Covering Very Major News (Press Became Dysfunctional)

    Are IBM operatives working to scuttle the process of investigative journalism?

16. Free Speech in the United Kingdom When "Chilling Effect" is Increasingly Prevalent

    If politicians cannot even use a term like "parasitic behaviour", then where do we as a society end up?

17. Oracle Lays Off Because of Debt and Commercial Issues, Not Slop

    Like Scam Altman, Larry Ellison hangs around Cheeto King because he could use some bailouts in the form of government contracts or phony money with an incredible name like "Stargate"

18. The Real Reason Many Sites and Forums Shun Microsoft Lunduke

    When forums say that they banned Microsoft Lunduke or don't want him mentioned it's probably because they are familiar with the "stench" that follows him around

19. Gemini Links 01/04/2026: Hallucinations, Stitching, and Type Systems

    Links for the day

20. Lots of Layoffs at IBM, "Media Blackout" About Mass Layoffs at IBM's HashiCorp and Confluent Last Month

    IBM is a dying company circling down the drain while manipulating or paying the media to pretend everything is fine

21. Microsoft Under Investigation by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for Abusive Tactics

    What's noteworthy is that this is "set to begin in May"

22. Sounds Like Red Hat (IBM) Layoffs in Slop Clothing

    This is an IBM policy. They try to justify staff cuts.

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 31, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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