Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 20, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries

   Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language

   New

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent

   it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"

3. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...

   reappointment campaign lobbying has not been restricted to the "home front" in Portugal

4. Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong

   Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms

5. Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"

   Links for the day

6. Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot

   Links for the day

7. Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk

   Links for the day

8. Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists

   We will be writing several series about this in the future

9. Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing

   Contrariwise, social control media is waning

10. The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.

    The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype

11. Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"

    Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule

12. The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"

    Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time

13. Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking

    "2026 Best Companies for the Future"?

14. To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away

    The leap between versions means that there is fertile ground for incompatibilities

15. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026

17. Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher

    Links for the day

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