Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 90 Out of 200: When Efforts to Silence His Spouse and Also the Wife of a Blogger in Another Continent Only Give More Exposure to Embarrassing Information

   The Garrett trial ended in October 2025

   New

2. Links 28/05/2026: Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Still Fighting, Iranians Back Online

   Links for the day

3. "LLMs Are Not Much More Than Plagiarism Engines"

   the impact of LLMs on communities and software projects

4. Is Slop Profitable Yet? No.

   Everything is a giant minus

5. Bob (Robert) Cringely Has Just Explained That After 3 Years of Hard Work It Became Apparent LLM Slop is Unfit for Purpose in Courts

   Added moments ago to Daily Links

6. Links 28/05/2026: LibreSSL 4.3.2, "Jeff Bezos Is Afraid Of What Comes Next", Measles Making a Comeback

   Links for the day

7. PCs That Are Made to 'Expire' and 'Secure' Boot Contributing to Planned Obsolescence

   People who are responsible for this ought to be held accountable

8. Evil, Faceless Corporation: Google Steals Money From You If You Don't Purchase an Android Device for MFA

   At this point, under the guise of "hey hi" (slop) Google is firing tens of thousands of workers

9. People Go Back to Basics, Abandon Microsoft's GitHub to Avoid Slop

   The media didn't pay any attention to GitHub's de facto chief quitting Microsoft only a few months ago

10. IBM - Much Like the European Patent Office (EPO) - Gives the President (Head of Board and CEO) All the Money While Staff Drowns in High Inflation Rates

    They're discussing the same sort of thing we often see mentioned in the EPO

11. "THE REGISTER EXPLAINER" as "Paid-for SPAM" at The Register MS With "AI" 40 Times in the Short Page

    What will be left of The Register MS in a few years?

12. 2025: EPO President Campinos Breaks the Cookie Jar, Steals Another Million Euros While His "Brother-in-Law" Does Cocaine at the Office and Staff Prepares Rolling, Indefinite Strikes

    any additional month of Campinos in charge of the EPO is a liability not just to the EPO but the EU as well

13. Gemini Links 28/05/2026: Dumping Microsoft GitHub, Gopher Rabbit Hole

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, May 27, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, May 27, 2026

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