Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. In Past 6 Months IBM Lost About 100 Billion Dollars in 'Value' While Debt Ballooned to 70 Billion Dollars

   Welcome to a universe of fake finances and phony accounting based on fictional assets with made-up 'worth'

2. If We Move Everything to Devuan...

   IRC, Git, Apache and so on

3. Campinos is a Lame Duck President This Year at the European Patent Office (EPO)

   The strikes are not ending. If anything, they intensify further.

4. Links 29/04/2026: "Snowden Affair 13 Years Later" and "Landmark Data Center Pause"

   Links for the day

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5. Dr. Andy Farnell on Weaponising Morality Against Technofascism and Slop

   It's longer than a "tweet", so social control media addicts are likely mentally unfit to read it

6. Six Months

   Techrights will be around (and active) for a very long time to come

7. Why We Publish "The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt"

   We intend to report the facts, fearlessly, until real and lasting solutions are reached

8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible

   when you cover Microsoft corruption and have real effect

9. Weeks After Mass Layoffs of Red Hat Engineers We Learn of European "Buyouts" and Layoffs at IBM

   At Microsoft, they tell us there are merely "buyouts", but they don't tell us what happens if you say "no!"

10. OS Upgrade Tentatively Scheduled for Tomorrow

    We have some contingencies in case the upgrade goes wrong

11. Links 29/04/2026: LLM Chatbot Usage Goes Down Sharply (as Do Stocks Associated With Them), Microsoft's Circular Financing Accounting Fraud at Risk

    Links for the day

12. Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Returning to an Exodus and Farewell APU

    Links for the day

13. Slop Has a Long Way to Go Before It Gets Basic Facts Right

    Please do not rely on slop for anything

14. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part IX - European Patents That Are Illegal (But Serve Non-European Monopolists in Exchange for 'Quick Cash')

    People who shamelessly violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) have the audacity to lecture workers on "ethics"

15. Canonical is Selling You, Ubuntu is a Data-Collecting Platform

    Canonical is looking for money in the wrong places

16. Seems Like Only Techrights Covered IBM Laying Off About 33% of Confluent Staff

    How can such a large round of layoffs evade today's media?

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 28, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, April 28, 2026

19. Gemini Links 29/04/2026: Bad Diet, New Middle Ages, and Temperature Model

    Links for the day

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