Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 25, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 86 Out of 200: The Position of Courts on Computer-Generated Lawsuits and Filings From Another Continent (Made by Two Men Who Work for Slop Companies)

   Lawsuits by proxy from California

2. IAM Magazine is in Effect Dead, It's Now Fused Into Microsoft's Patent Troll (Which It Has Promoted All Along)

   Microsoft-connected patent trolls in Europe [...] Now, in his new job, Wild can use his 'expertise' to help guide blackmail/extortion to better harm Europe's industry

   New

3. Gemini Links 24/05/2026: Impressions of Auckland, the Age of Left or Right Extremism, and .zim files

   Links for the day

4. Microsoft's 'Hiring Freeze' (Layoffs) and Salary Freeze (While Inflation Approaches Double-Digit Rates)

   If they get replaced by anyone, it'll be low-paid folks in low-salary regions [...] workers' stress levels shoot up, compensation goes down

5. Slop Will Not End Humanity, The Pushers of It Do (Artificial Scarcities and Global Warming)

   Causing hunger and poverty in the name of "computation"

6. How Can the 'Broligarchs' Love Us When They Don't Even Love Themselves?

   Their SLAPPs have their limits

7. Death at IBM Due to Overwork

   Dying for IBM is never worth it

8. We Publish Less, We Get More Exposure

   UbuntuPit is coming to realise that quantity isn't what comes to matter or truly "count", especially when quantity comes at expense of authenticity

9. Codecs and Software Patents - Part IX - GNU Project Has Chosen to Adopt AV1 for Its Videos, Conversion and Additions Underway

   One of our readers is working to help GNU through the maze of software patents and maze of patent lawsuits, which aren't the same thing but are somewhat overlapping issues

10. Links 24/05/2026: SoftBank CEO Getting Conned by Scam Altman, Hotter 2026 and El Nino With Growing Impact

    Links for the day

11. Links 24/05/2026: Ebola Outbreak and "Journalists Identify Murder Victims Of Trump’s Boat Strike Program"

    Links for the day

12. A Huge Proportion of 'Articles' in The Register MS Are Actually Paid Spam of the Communist Party of China, Selling Compromised (for Wiretapping) Technology

    The Register MS is having a go at becoming a marketing company or "B2B"

13. Top Officials Have Just Left Microsoft, Layoffs in Anything But Name

    Microsoft's debt is very fast-growing

14. Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) Meets "Alicante Mafia" at the European Patent Office (EPO)

    Report on meeting with VP1 and his team on 21 April 2026

15. UbuntuPit (ubuntupit.com) Has Deleted Slop Pages, Its Slopfarm Experiment Has Failed (Like Always!)

    Turning one's site into a slopfarm is a death knell

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 23, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, May 23, 2026

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