Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 16, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. LLM Slop is Not Reliable, Constitutes No Process of 'Thinking'; There's No Thought Process at All, No Grasp or Understanding, Let Alone Context

   Lies have become the "business model" [...] More people ought to talk about it and explain to other people what LLMs really are

2. Not a Security Expert If You Cannot Manage to Keep Online a Simple Two-User Mastodon Instance Somebody Else Built

   From uptime of ~99% to maybe 80%

3. Microsoft Has All the Symptoms of a Dying Company (Mass Layoffs of the People Who Built the Company)

   the company's debt is going through the ceiling

4. For Effective 'Finlandisation' (Not Digital Sovereignty) to Be Replaced by Autonomy Finland Needs to Think Like GNU (Software Freedom), Not Linux (Openwashing Source, Plus LLM Slop and Killswitches)

   What is 'Finlandisation'?

5. IBM's Kyndryl in Trouble: Mass Layoffs, Payroll Problems, Buybacks (in Company Whose Debt is Almost Twice Its Total Value), and Soon $9 Per Share (Down Over 80%)

   Kyndryl is done. Stick a fork in it.

6. ICYMI: GNU/Linux Did Not Start in Finland

   If we're honest/true to ourselves, we need to recognise history for what it is, not what some corporations (like GAFAM) want it to be

7. Codecs and Software Patents - Part VII - Entering Phase II, the Battle Against Companies That Normalise Taxed (by Patents on Mathematics) Codecs

   In the next few part we'll deal with the impact on Free software, including the GNU Project

   New

8. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIV - Luis Berenguer Giménez at the EPO (European Patent Office) Became the Punchline of EPO Staff

   "the fact that Luis was caught with cocaine causes laughter. The use of cocaine in itself is not the real shocking bit."

9. IBM Keeps Culling Essential Linux, Fedora, GNOME, and GTK Staff

   Over a month ago IBM laid off over 400 Red Hat engineers

10. Cisco Cuts Nearly 4,000 Jobs Because of Debt, Nothing to Do With Slop

    The media keeps talking about revenue, not profits

11. Gemini Links 15/05/2026: UDP Game Forwarding Over SSH, Avoiding LLMs, and Alhena 5.5.9

    Links for the day

12. Links 15/05/2026: Electric Company Shuns Entire Town to Prioritise Only Data Centres, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Carried Out Secret Attacks in Iran

    Links for the day

13. Focus is Important, Focus is Everything

    We are still running 6 multi-part series in tandem

14. Guest Post on False Marketing and PR Blitzes by Anthropic

    A lot of people my age are just tired of the nonsense

15. Links 15/05/2026: UK antitrust regulator is officially investigating Microsoft Office, Anthropic’s Fraudulent Lies About Mythoslop Don't Withstand Scrutiny

    Links for the day

16. IBM is Googlebombing the Media With Fake Numbers to Promote Fake Technology

    a classic example of why much of today's media cannot be trusted (anymore)

17. Up to 10,000 Microsoft Layoffs in a Couple of Months

    Many ways to skin a cat

18. Truth Hurts. People Hurt by Truth Aren't Entitled to Compensation.

    Family members aren't exempt

19. SLAPP Censorship - Part 77 Out of 200: They Never Knew How to Handle Women (Except to Attack Them)

    The case against us was really quite simple

20. Update on Sirius Open Source in 2026 (When Your Former Employer Commits Crimes and Nobody is Held Accountable)

    I did not envision myself spending several years (even 4 years after leaving that company) challenging the system for tolerating and even covering up corruption

21. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIII - Cocaine Use at the EPO's Top-Level Management "Adds Up" and Worsens Things "Over Time"

    "cocaine use knocks the IQ down permanently a tiny bit with each use. Over time that adds up."

22. Gemini Links 15/05/2026: Slop Fatigue and Banning LLM Use

    Links for the day

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 14, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 14, 2026

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