Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 05, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Links 04/05/2026: Energy Shortages Become More Visible, Germans Reject Military Service, Merz Says US 'Humiliated' Over Iran

   Links for the day

2. KDE's Cornelius Schumacher Explains Why You Should be Slop-Free

   Output is not measured by quantity of words

   New

3. Links 04/05/2026: Economics of Slop Discredited, Democrat and Republican Voters Want Cuts to Data Centres

   Links for the day

4. IBM's "FutureNow" is the Rebranding of the Client Innovation Center (CIC), for Lobbying Purposes by IBM While Halving People's Salaries

   So says a new comment

5. Libera.​Chat Openly and Publicly Admits It Has an LLM Slop Problem (Chatbots in Its Channels)

   If there's a policy that bans chatbots (not humans), there's even a moral imperative for it

6. Microsoft: Yes, We Are Losing Windows Users and Yes, We Have Problems With Payroll (So We Lay Off Essential Workers)

   From what we can gather, "hey hi" is now the name of everything at Microsoft

7. Ubuntu.com While Ubuntu.com is Under DDoS Attack and Intermittently Offline Due to Windows Botnets: Don't Use Ubuntu, Use Windows Instead

   Unbelievable, as this is their advice when Windows zombies hammer away at their Web site and general infrastructure

8. Links 04/05/2026: "DNC Covering Up Its 2024 Autopsy" and Rudy Giuliani in Critical Condition

   Links for the day

9. ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Exceed 5% in New Zealand

   Can we expect New Zealand and Australia to divest from GAFAM?

10. The Real News is Botnets (e.g. Windows With Back Doors), Not Iran

    Let's focus on the botnets [...] Microsoft's aim is the opposite of security

11. SLAPP Censorship - Part 66 Out of 200: Alex Graveley Did Illegal Things, Then Asserted Mentioning Those Illegal Things is Privacy Violation

    Alex Graveley "has suffered damage and distress" when the public found out he told women to kill themselves

12. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XII - Outsourcing Everything to Microsoft, Which is Illegal

    Today's EPO isn't about technology or law

13. Melissa Chan on Why Press Freedom Matters to Everyone, Not Just Journalists

    dispelling a myth

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 03, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 03, 2026

16. Gemini Links 04/05/2026: Another Old Web Pillar Gone and Simple Lobsters Mirror for Gemini

    Links for the day

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