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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 16, 2026

Many pigeons on the ground

Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft May Already Be Shutting Down More Gaming Studios
    the writings are on the wall: XBox is in disarray.

    New

  2. IBM Works for Microsoft
    Hours ago in IBM.com
  3. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO's Brussels Liaison Officer
    It would appear that in January 2020, Pellegrino was induced by Campinos to jump ship from the EUIPO and take up his current position as Brussels Liaison Officer for the EPO
  4. European Patent Office (EPO) Receiving Section (RS) and Elimination of Many Roles
    Open letter to Mr Rowan (VP1) and Mr Aledo Lopez (COO) [...] Does the EU leadership intend to tolerate this?
  5. Microsoft's XBox is Disintegrating, Executives Are Quitting
    We're basically witnessing the slow-motion "end of XBox"
  6. Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Slop Code Benchmarked, Wireguard on NixOS and Guix
    Links for the day
  7. Links 15/06/2026: More Own Goals for the Slop Industry, Palantir Trouble in UK
    Links for the day
  8. Apple Wants Everybody to Forget About "Vision Pro" Because It Was a Giant Flop
    worthless gadgets with no obvious use case/s
  9. The Cyber Show is Adopting 'Book Form' (or Long Form Publications)
    Andy and Helen nowadays invest more time in making their site faster
  10. Richard Stallman's Software Freedom/Digital Sovereignty Tour in Europe
    As things stand at present, the vast majority of people have their interactions controlled/policed by GAFAM
  11. Estimates of Scale of Microsoft Layoffs, Will Likely Happen "in Batches"
    "Heard 10 to 15 percent eventually but idk date."
  12. IBM Has Put Red Hat on a Poor Diet of Slop, Now Fedora and Red Hat Suffocate or Choke on It
    Over the weekend we saw more people leaving the company
  13. Estimates of Microsoft Layoffs: 3,000 Staff to be Culled Just in Gaming, How Many in Other Divisions?
    Now the XBox division has its own "fall guy", but it is a woman
  14. Straw Man Arguments Against Rust
    If anything, it teaches the importance of auditing packages
  15. Tesla Debt Rose Sharply, Sales Declined, Wall Street's Claim of Tesla "Value" is Merely a Fairytale (and Not Just Tesla)
    We would gladly sell land on Mars to anyone who honestly believes a company that loses money is somehow "worth" trillions in Wall Street
  16. Stop Calling Losses "Investment"
    XBox is losing money, it is a sinkhole
  17. For Justice We Need More Speech, Not Less Speech
    When you attack something you are just giving that something a bigger platform
  18. SLAPP Censorship - Part 107 Out of 200: Keeping Law Accessible to Everybody
    We'll have stories related to this in the future
  19. Links 15/06/2026: Slop "Beg Bounties", Wall Street Fakes 'Worth', and Arkansans Saved PBS
    Links for the day
  20. Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Simulation, and Theremin
    Links for the day
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, June 14, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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