Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. European Patent Office Management Mocked for Trying to 'Bribe' Staff With a Little Food

   The Office is having a crisis; a little breakfast treat won't solve it

2. The Corporate Media Intentionally Overlooks How Google's Debt Trebles in Just Over a Year

   We'll soon see how much more money Microsoft has borrowed

3. (Trigger Warning) Jeremy Bicha & Debian-Edu, TecKids, Ubuntu incest scandal at DebConf25

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

4. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part X - Deliberately Violate European Patent Convention (EPC), Tolerate Cocaine Use in Management, Hide That From Staff and Stakeholders

   The "Alicante Mafia" (as staff calls it) is a disgrace to Europe

5. Apparently Last Day for Nearly 1,000 Confluent Workers IBM Laid Off Last Month

   IBM is a dying company pretending to be strong because of its age

   New

6. Google News Sloppy Again

   Today was disappointing

7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 62 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Issue Astounding Copy-Paste Masterpiece Asserting Publicly-Accessible Embarrassing Facts Must Remain Hidden

   Are Garrett and Graveley twins separated at birth but joined by GNOME and Microsoft?

8. Links 30/04/2026: Barrage of Lawsuits Against Slop, Microsoft's Stock Crashes

   Links for the day

9. Microsoft Says Mass Layoffs Are Coming and Puts a Price on Them

   Microsoft will shrink

10. Upgrade Successful

    we had a downtime of only 1-2 minutes overall (for two reboots)

11. Links 30/04/2026: Slop Industry Cannot Keep Up With Bills, "The World Is Getting Too Hot to Feed Itself"

    Links for the day

12. Then Come the DDoS Attacks

    Is someone trying to 'kill' Techrights?

13. The Register MS Running Spam Pieces for Huawei, a Banned Company

    Money does not excuse bad behaviour

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, April 29, 2026

16. Gemini Links 30/04/2026: Outdoor Time, Old Computers, and Joining Geminispace

    Links for the day

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