Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 08, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. American Back Doors No Longer Trusted by Europeans

   Has the EU paid attention, for a change?

2. When Energy Prices Double in About a Month the Slop Bros Won't Sleep at Night

   Unhinged leadership does not seem eager to end a conflict that it started

3. Newer is Not Better, Lunar Edition

   Maybe in 57 years (2083, after all these wars) we'll managed to launch a capsule with a human and a dog above the stratosphere again

   New

4. Ubuntu More Honest Than Microsoft Windows

   If you don't like the direction Ubuntu has taken, then try something else

5. Azure is Dying, the "Entertainment" (Slop) Couldn't Lift Up Fake 'Demand' For Azure

   Azure has had mass layoffs every year since 2020 and even earlier this year

6. 2026 Starting to Feel Like 2020

   Can Wall Street survive this?

7. Growing Awareness of Techrights' Importance

   We're not an individual's blog but a community project

8. Harassment by Microsoft, Then a Cover-up

   That Microsoft relies on blackmail, bribes and harassment (even against its own people) isn't surprising given the roots of the company and its toxic, deceitful management

9. SLAPP Censorship - Part 37 Out of 200: The Correct Suspicion Garrett and Graveley Were Collaborating in Overseas Litigation Against Critics

   Microsofters and back doors' boosters from America frivolously sue Brits

10. Microsoft Has Lost Nearly 20% in "Desktop Operating System Market Share" Since COVID-19 Began

    Add Android and iOS, then Windows falls to 24%

11. Maintenance Later This Month

    Apr 24, 2026 21:00 - Apr 25, 2026 09:00 BST

12. Microsoft: Move Over, XBox, Slop is the New "Entertainment" and We Demote Our "Entertainment" CEO

    Marketers, marketers, marketers, as a CEO called Ballmer put it

13. linuxbuz.com is a Slopfarm, It Depends on LLMs

    In the more distant past it could be said that linuxbuz.com was an OK site

14. Links 07/04/2026: Patent Trolls Leigh M. Rothschild, Bolstered by GNOME and OIN, Continues to Attack; ‘Retaliatory Antitrust Suit’ by MElon

    Links for the day

15. Gemini Links 07/04/2026: Copyleft Revisited, Killing Linux Processes With FZF

    Links for the day

16. It Would be Good for Debian to Have a Female DPL, But...

    Debian isn't exactly selecting people for quality or policing bad behaviour

17. IBM Insiders Say What's Wrong With IBM in Albany (and Yes, There Are Layoffs)

    promotions boil down to what insiders now call "brown-nosing" and nepotism

18. After Killing OpenSource.org IBM Together With OSI Told Us It Would Carry on OpenSource.net, But the Site Has Been Essentially Dead for 9 Months (Effectively Abandoned)

    OpenSource.org has been dormant for 4 weeks already and OpenSource.net last had a new page 9 months ago (it'll be 9 months tomorrow) [...] That's IBM in a nutshell

19. A Lot of What Happened to OSI is Because of Reporting by Techrights

    Half a year since Stefano Maffuli (Executive Director) "left"

20. Public Presentations by RMS Hardly Interrupted Anymore

    We'll carry on covering those sorts of topics throughout the year

21. Links 07/04/2026: US Wants to Put Journalists in Prison for Reporting Facts, Artist ‘Bale’ Arrested Over Rape Allegation in Social Control Media

    Links for the day

22. To IBMers, IBM Has Failed and is Fast Becoming a Book of Jokes and One-Word Punchlines

    How else can one make it obvious that IBM is circling down the drain?

23. "AI Revolution" Was a Lie: Microsoft CEO Admits What He Calls "AI" is Sometimes Sloppy and Microsoft Admits That Slop is for "Entertainment Purposes Only" (Not for Any Serious Work)

    if it gets "memory-holed", we can bring it up again and again

24. Social Control Media is Not a Viable Business Model

    The future of the Web might not be the Web

25. From Datacentres Boom to Actual Booms That Target Datacentres, Now Struggling to Justify Humongous Energy and Water Consumption

    Datacentres that are used for mindless "entertainment" (as Microsoft calls it) like slop are not a priority at this time

26. Gemini Links 07/04/2026: Aircraft Lift Force, Editor History, and Consumer Hardware Stagnation

    Links for the day

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 06, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, April 06, 2026

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