Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 04, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 03/05/2026: Insolvent US Bailing Out Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, OpenAI, and SpaceX

   Links for the day

2. All-Time Lows for Windows in Spain and Portugal

   data which became publicly available less than 24 hours ago in statCounter

   New

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 65 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Are Word-by-Word Similar (They Also Collaborated All Along)

   We'll keep it short today

4. IBM Has a Long and Rich History of Showing Chatbots Bear No Business Prospects (From Jeopardy to Watson Healthcare and McDonalds)

   Watson Healthcare is already in the dustpan, so they are rebranding it again

5. Europe Decoupling is Bad News for GAFAM, Especially Bad to Microsoft

   Countries want independence

6. India Needs to Recognise That the World Wide Web is Monoculture in India

   In the US, a judge with Indian roots dealt with a case related to this; why won't India?

7. All-Time Lows for Windows Down Under

   seeing the demise of Windows in Australia (historically a slow or low adopter of GNU/Linux) is good news

8. Linux Kernel Tainted by Software Patents That Make Linux Worse and the 'Linux' Foundation is Compiling Bribes to Enable This (Promotion of Monopolies and Tolerance of Software Patenting)

   Why you need to reboot when a serious bug is found in Linux? "Licencing"...

9. IBM's Kyndryl Accounting Fraud Explained and More Recently the Insiders Talk About Mass Layoffs

   Judging by how the media totally ignored 800+ layoffs at IBM's Confluent and 400+ layoffs at Red Hat a few weeks ago don't expect to hear anything about Kyndryl layoffs

10. Links 03/05/2026: Water Shortages Crises and Slop Fakes "Are Coming for Your Bank Account" (Slop-Enabled Fraud)

    Links for the day

11. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XI - EPO 'Products' to Cement Asian and American Monopolies

    Only a fool would believe Lame Duck Campinos

12. Microsoft Windows Falls Below 9% in South Africa

    As one can expect, GNU/Linux is measured as going up in France

13. Gemini Links 03/05/2026: The Black Side of the Web, LiveJournal, Chimarrão

    Links for the day

14. A Month Since Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (400+ Engineers Laid Off), The Media Didn't Cover It

    We are very concerned about the state of the media

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 02, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, May 02, 2026

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