Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2026,
updated May 21, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. GAFAM is Connected to Misogyny, Almost All Founders Divorced

   They're not good people, even if they pay the media to pretend otherwise

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 83 Out of 200: Religion is Still Alive, But for Many This Religion is Monetary (Greed, Monopolies, Corporate Power)

   If all you keep boasting about is being able to afford a hotel room and some domestic flight, then maybe you have no real accomplishments and are more like a "Facebook serf" with a credit card

3. Web Browsers Are for Rendering Web Page, They Shouldn't Become PDF Editors

   Linus Torvalds is quickly learning and speaking about this

   New

4. Oracle Seems to Have Popularised Overnight Layoffs, Now GAFAM Does the Same

   layoff emails at 4 a.m. local time

5. A Lot of Fake News About Microsoft's LinkedIn Today, Some Comes From Slopfarms, Some Relies on Those Slopfarms

   As usual, slopfarms make the Web a huge pile of garbage

6. IBM's Kyndryl is Circling Down the Drain, Say Kyndryl Insiders

   "IBM Dinosaurs who were recycled and catapulted into the orange trash heap by IBM"

7. A Lot of Coverage Adding Hype Factor to Slop Bug Reports... is Made by LLM Slop

   Local Privilege Escalation [...] the slop motivates some actual people to keep writing about it

8. Links 20/05/2026: Mass Layoffs at NPR (Bought by the Ballmers and Bill Epsteingate), Starbucks Korea CEO Fired Over ‘Tank Day’ Ad

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 20/05/2026: Advantage of CD Collections, Geminaut's View of Nostr, and SSL / TLS Certificates

   Links for the day

10. IBM is Becoming a Pile of Expired Patents and Abandoned Buildings, Assets of Little Actual Value

    Having laid off a ton of people, borrowed lots of money to fake growth (by acquisition), and sent some jobs to low-paid regions where innovation isn't done

11. Links 20/05/2026: Looting of Americans for "White Grievance Reparations Fund"; "Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians"

    Links for the day

12. SLAPP Censorship - Part 82 Out of 200: British Government Intervenes in the SLAPPs by Brett Wilson LLP

    At this stage our matters are dealt with by a layer below that of the Prime Minister (adjacent to it)

13. LinkedIn Communications Reveal That LinkedIn - Like GitHub - Will Vanish Inside the Belly of Microsoft

    This is definitely going to happen.

14. In Wall Street, Financial Difficulties Drive Shares Up

    Wall Street doesn't work that way

15. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXVIII - European Patent Office (EPO) Guidebook Says Report Crimes Committed on EPO Premises. Some Did, But President Campinos Covers up for the Culprits.

    The staff has long been on strike and the union (SUEPO) organised an enhanced day of action just two days ago

16. Gemini Links 20/05/2026: Fall of an Empire, "High Tech is a Social Exercise", and Big Cameras

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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