Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2026,
updated Jun 07, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. European Patent Office (EPO) Crisis: Huge EPO Strikes, Profound Corruption, and Cocaine Use by Managers Tolerated

   These strikes won't be ending any time soon

2. 25 Years With PalmOS

   That my Palm PDA still works in 2026 (not in mint condition but close to that) says a lot about the "build quality" of gadgets 20+ years ago

3. Microsoft Has Spent Months Preparing Lists of People to Cull in Massive Wave of Layoffs (Allegedly Start of July)

   There is some consensus that we're weeks away from mega-layoffs at Microsoft

4. Gemini Links 06/06/2026: "Competing" With LLMs and "Automation of Any Kind"

   Links for the day

   New

5. Links 06/06/2026: 'Epstein Problem' in Board of Directors of Microsoft, Surveillance Giant Google Under Legal Threats for Online Misuses

   Links for the day

6. Banning Things Versus Teaching People the Reason/s to Shun/Boycott Those Things

   Prohibition has its limits

7. Software Freedom Takes a Lot More Than Coding

   some of the roles in the Free software community that don't receive (m)any grateful words

8. Ubuntu is Losing to Other GNU/Linux Distros

   "Linux Mint"

9. Old Articles Explaining That Patents - Especially Software Patents - Are Bad for Innovation

   We've omitted more than 50% of the articles we had gathered as candidates for inclusion

10. Why GNU and FSF Will Choose AV1 Over AV2 (It's More Widely Supported)

    for the foreseeable future they'll stick with AV1

11. Mass Layoffs (RAs) and PIPs (Excuses to Sack) at IBM: Insiders Tell No Relation to Actual Performance

    If many thousands are impacted by this, then certainly it is newsworthy

12. Links 06/06/2026: LinkedIn Infested With Spies, Ethernet WiFi Router On Pi Pico 2W

    Links for the day

13. Why We Dumped Online Shopping (Groceries)

    subsidies kept the "online" stuff artificially cheap

14. Microsoft Fell to All-Time Low in Monaco Last Month

    So says statCounter anyway

15. Lawsuits That Don't Work

    Not as expected anyway

16. SLAPP Censorship - Part 99 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Seem to Have Crashed Brett Wilson LLP (Worse Than Taking Russian Oligarchs as SLAPP Clients)

    a state of disarray

17. Links 06/06/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing Slop on Microsoft's Payroll, Ukraine Wants Permanent Ceasefire With Russia

    Links for the day

18. 50% of the 'Gains' Made by "Quantum" Hype Already Evaporated

    "It was all hype about quantum nonsense. Heading back to reality now. Expect sub-$220 after earnings release next month."

19. Heap of Trash Online, Not Just the Fault of LLM Slop But Enabled by Slop

    Google News has just promoted a pair of prolific slopfarms

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 05, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, June 05, 2026

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