Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 19, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Digital Sovereignty Discussed in the United Kingdom (UK)

   Digital Sovereignty would be nice, but let's remember what contributes to it

2. IBM Adds Only More IBM Staff to the Fedora Council, They Like LLM Slop for Posting 'Articles'

   It's like Canonical with Ubuntu, only worse

   New

3. Links 18/06/2026: Clown Computing Has Harmful Sound, Facebook "Must Face the Music (Infringement Litigation)"

   Links for the day

4. IBM Common Stock Down to About $250, It Was at $330 Just 17 Days Ago

   Happy birthday IBM!

5. Microsoft's CEO Openly Admits XBox is Not Sustainable and Microsoft is Beginning to Admit Slop Isn't Working and Is Not Not Sustainable Either

   Expect Microsoft cancellations next month (or later this month) to impact far more than XBox and some studios

6. EPO and Disabilities: Payments Allegedly Disabled

   But people who do cocaine can claim paid "sick leave" (over 100,000 euros for no work at all) if the President sleeps with them

7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 110 Out of 200: Anti-SLAPP Reform Formally Advanced in the United Kingdom (UK) the Same Week the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (US) Does Forum-Shopping in the UK

   The only language they understand is money. They don't understand privacy.

8. Links 18/06/2026: UK Social Media Ban for Minors, Finland Lifts a Nuclear Weapons Ban

   Links for the day

9. 'Article' With "AI" 27 Times in the Page, It's "Partner Content" (Paid Spam) as Usual at The Register MS

   We deem this a timely reminder that a lot of the hype around slop is paid-for lies

10. Microsoft Layoffs Have Reportedly Already Started at ZeniMax

    The overall scale is unknown

11. Cyber Show: "Our independence remains intact and we're set to continue relentlessly probing the world of digital technology with hard questions"

    As one should

12. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Leveraging the Lusitanian Connection

    Mendonça no longer functions as an independent agent but rather as a fig-leaf for a mafia-like entity that prizes obedience over integrity and self-preservation over truth

13. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

14. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 17, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, June 17, 2026

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