Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 20/04/2026: Chatbots Motivate Manslaughter, GAFAM’s ‘Tobacco Moment’

   Links for the day

2. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part II - It's About Politics, Not Science

   Tomorrow we'll discuss what the cocaine proponents (or apologists) deem to be "ethics"

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 52 Out of 200: Phil Golding Appointed Bar Standards Board (BSB) Chief, Misogyny Must End

   How many rules will they "bend" or even breach?

   New

4. 3,400 Gemini Capsules Accessible and Known to Lupa, A Geminispace Crawler

   We're about to exceed 3,400 some time soon

5. When and Why I Quit Writing "Classical" GNU/Linux Advocacy Articles

   I'd love to write more about why GNU/Linux is great [...] We always try to cover unique issues and break stories (exclusives)

6. IBM Had Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year (Including at HashiCorp, Confluent, and Red Hat), 'Results' Due in 2 Days' Time

   IBM's "media partners" seem to be engaging (propaganda and puff piece) ahead of the serenade to Wall Street

7. Dr. Andy Farnell on Privacy Failings and Shallow Media Coverage

   Bad media paves the way for failed societies

8. Gemini Links 20/04/2026: Fahrenheit 451, Small Web Advocacy, and Offgrid Holdout

   Links for the day

9. Debian Has a New Project Leader (DPL)

   We plan to upgrade Debian some time this month

10. This Morning The Register MS Published SPAM With "AI" 36 Times in It. This is What The Register MS is Paid to Publish.

    It's selling out to Ponzi schemers

11. Throwing Rocks in Houses of Glass

    Lots of "virtue-signalling" against ICE

12. Links 20/04/2026: Brave Origin Nightly, Scuttling USAID Gives 'Soft Power' to China, and White House Gives Money to Russia (Through Oil Sales)

    Links for the day

13. EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part II - "Cocaine Communication Manager" Luis Berenguer is Back Without Punishment

    Latest on Luis Berenguer

14. Gemini Links 20/04/2026: "I Hate Computers" and "Why I de-Googled"

    Links for the day

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 19, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, April 19, 2026

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