Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Why Chatbots Based on LLMs Cannot Be Improved Even If More Energy (Money) Gets Wasted on Them

   nobody can do it well

2. The Generations of CS Are Coming to 'End of Life'

   Nowadays everything that is a computer is somehow called "hey hi"

3. Links 05/05/2026: "Republicans Made Children More Expensive" and "Internet Blackouts" Cripple Economies

   Links for the day

4. What "Age Verification" Laws Are About

   We know based on experience (even predating the Web) that kids will find workarounds, so such restrictions are difficult to enforce

   New

5. Ubuntu is Run by "N00bs" (and It Shows)

   GNU/Linux users are not a small niche anymore

6. Gemini Links 05/05/2026: Bad Health, Pomera DM250 On Linux, and Children Using DO

   Links for the day

7. Reading Closely What Microsoft Put in the Report, Expect Many More Layoffs Later This Year

   The only thing that they grow rapidly is their debt

8. IBM is Collapsing, the People Responsible for the Collapse Aren't the Victims

   IBM management has plenty of things to distract from right now

9. Media: Let's Repeat the Lie About Mass Layoffs Being a Win for a Buzzword

   This says so much about the state of today's media

10. Links 05/05/2026: Live Nation Problems, Growing Tensions in the Gulf Again (Energy Crisis)

    Links for the day

11. Gartner Pays The Register MS and the Effect is Visible (IBM Promotion; IBM Also a Sponsor, of Both!)

    Follow the money

12. The Register MS Published Fake Article That Mentioned "AI" Almost a Dozen Times. It Got Paid to Do This.

    If you keep seeing the term "AI" quite a lot in the media, be sure to check who pays for it

13. Links 05/05/2026: Germany, Depression, and Control of Online Discourse in Geminispace

    Links for the day

14. Microsoft Lunduke Has a Serious Problem: He's Fronting for Sites That Insist on Exposing Children to Pornography

    He's even contradicting himself a lot

15. Unsustainable 'Tech' (Debt) Giants Rely on US Taxpayers for Bailouts and Subsidies

    In the past 6 months Oracle and Amazon alone borrowed over 100 billion dollars

16. Future-Proofing Techrights

    2 days from now this site turns exactly 19.5 (years)

17. Microsoft is Waning Like IBM

    There will be lots of "ex Softies" or "former Microsofters" out there

18. Chatbots Are Not Replacing Web Search, But They Contaminate Results

    People still value pages written and curated by humans; they use search engines to find these

19. SLAPP Censorship - Part 67 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Against My Wife and I Assert 'Distress', But It Was Just a Copy-Pasted Template (Mechanical Crocodile Tears)

    Can barristers charge 10,000-15,000 US dollars (about $1,000-1,500 per page!) to do such shoddy, sloppy work?

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 04, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, May 04, 2026

22. Links 05/05/2026: Energy Crises, Data Breaches, and Journalists Murdered

    Links for the day

23. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIII - Health and Safety With Cocaine

    That they are trying to approach us (the President's own family) is a sign of weakness

24. Codecs and Software Patents - Part I - The 2026 Status Quo

    It's frustrating to see how little (almost none) media coverage exists for these sorts of matters

25. Gemini Links 05/05/2026: ASCII Chessboard Without HTML and Ongoing Antenna Migration

    Links for the day

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