Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 06, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM is "Making an Exit". Only the Executives Will Get Rich.

   failure disguised as success

2. 2026 is the Year of Blockchains, Says IBM's CEO a Decade Ago?

   "falling upwards"

3. Most Coders Used to be Women, Not Men (and Men Who Dropped Out of College Now Plunder Everything They Can)

   "Ethics For Hackers"

   New

4. Links 05/06/2026: Lawyers in Trouble for Citing Cases That Don't Exist (Slop Too Bad to Justify Costs; Even It It Did Work, It Would Still be Far Too Expensive)

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 05/06/2026: Bears in the Streets, WWII Revisionism, and Westworld

   Links for the day

6. Microsoft's LinkedIn Called "Dying Platform" by One Who Worked There

   The co-founder of LinkedIn has just stepped down too

7. GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) Layoffs Are Due to Surging Debt, or About 120 Billion Dollars Borrowed in One Year Alone

   It's well above 150 billion dollars if one adds Oracle

8. After One Jeffrey Epstein Associate 'Leaves' Microsoft's Board Another Jeffrey Epstein Associate Steps Down, Workers Concerned About the Mass Layoffs

   How many more loans can Microsoft receive? Those loans are becoming increasingly risky.

9. IBM Exploits Overambitious, Hungry Young Men to Help the "Great Quantum Hype Campaign" (Pumping the Stock Based on Deliberate Misinformation or Outright Disinformation)

   The boot-licking campaign is live...

10. What Will Likely Happen When the Slop Bubble Pops (and When It'll be Widely Accepted That It Popped)

    all the "most successful" slop companies are so deep in debt

11. The Register MS is Part of the Problem, It's Publishing "AI" SPAM Because it's Paid by Chinese Military-Connected Firms

    Given that The Register MS is run by a Microsofter (since last summer), destruction seems inevitable

12. IBM's CEO Does Not Use GNU/Linux, So Why Did He Suggest Buying Red Hat Only to Lay Off Its Workers, Market Slop Instead of Linux, and Sack UNIX Professionals?

    Shortly after IBM had bought Red Hat and there were mass layoffs we pointed out that Red Hat's CEO was not using GNU/Linux

13. If You're Not Focusing on Software Freedom, All You'll Get is Slopware and Buzzwords

    If you're not focusing on attaining Software Freedom (and remember "Linux" is just a brand), then you're losing sight of the goals that actually matter

14. Red Hat/IBM: Microsoft is Our Partner of the Year

    Red Hat is a really bad gravy

15. Gemini Links 05/06/2026: Enshittification of Institutes for Project Management, Codebases Contaminated With Slop, Personal Stories

    Links for the day

16. Communicating With Freedom - Part II - Quibble Breathing New Life Into LibreJS

    Notice how work on one thing led to thousands of lines of code added to a mostly dormant (but nevertheless important) project

17. Slop Has no ROI, an Economy Built on False Assumptions of Slop is Doomed

    we're all going to suffer from this Ponzi scheme

18. Links 05/06/2026: More GAFAM Layoffs, Google Faces Regulatory Crackdown in UK Over Plagiarism in "AI" Clothing

    Links for the day

19. Rumour That Layoffs at Microsoft Will Kick Off on July 1st, 2026 (Impacting 10,000 or More Workers)

    this is what the rumour mill or the word through the grapevine is

20. Mission:Libre, Which Teaches Young People Free Software Ideals, Needs Financial Backing

    plea for assistance with Mission:Libre

21. The Slop Ponzi Scheme is a Problem and Threat to All of Us (Even Those Who Don't Invest in or Use Slop at All)

    This problem is systemic, not contained

22. "Blind Justice" Examines the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Turning a Blind Eye to Abuse by British Solicitors

    We have some jaw-dropping examples of how the SRA does not do actual regulation - to the point where its staff does not actual work and does not look into any evidence at all!

23. 7 Days From Now the FSF's Founder Gives a Talk in Bern, the FSF Has Just Advertised This

    Meanwhile the FSF (or GNU) processes and uploads many recent talks by RMS

24. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Down But Not Out – Costa's Comeback

    he managed to secure a top-level EU position in June 2024

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 04, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 04, 2026

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