Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 22, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Chad's Move to GNU/Linux or the Point of Exceeding 5% "Market Share"

   experienced centuries of being colonised

2. GAFAM is Drowning in Debt, GAFAM is Clearly Not Sustainable Anymore (It Runs on Borrowed Money and Bailouts)

   The war and surrender in Iran will deepen the debt; we'll see the GAFAM reports in late July

3. Microsoft at 50 Follows the General Trajectory of Skype

   How many years does Microsoft have left before payroll becomes impossible?

4. Cybersecurity Does Not Mean Asking Microsoft for Permission to Boot

   There were very good and timely reasons to speak about the matter, including impending antitrust complaints against Microsoft

   New

5. Gemini Links 21/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Paying With Cash, and "More on Withered Technology"

   Links for the day

6. GAFAM Was Never an Ally to Europe

   Only 1 in 10 Europeans see US as an ally — study [...] military providers in "tech" clothing cannot be trusted

7. GitHub, LinkedIn, and XBox Will Finish Like Skype (Sustainability Crisis)

   Skype should become a verb. When Microsoft 'Skypes' something it means it basically shuts it down with some temporal excuse/s.

8. Drowning in Garbage: AUR Shows That Too Much Low-Quality Software (Including Slop) is Bad for Everybody

   What happened in AUR had happened elsewhere before and will happen again in the future

9. Links 21/06/2026: EU on Patented (Monopolised) Crops, Microsoft Software "Narcs on You to Your Boss"

   Links for the day

10. A Year After a Microsofter Took Over The Register MS It is Effectively a Content Farm With News as a 'Side Dish'

    This is not journalism, this is spam

11. IBM Pays the Media and Cons Some 'Journalists' Into Participating in "Quantum" Spam

    "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

12. You Don't Need an 'App' for Your Birdhouse (Slopfondlers Come for Birds)

    That they sell those things as "AI" really says a lot about how dishonest slopfondlers really are

13. SLAPP Censorship - Part 113 Out of 200: The United Kingdom is Not Turkey

    Turkey is ranked almost worst in the Western World for press freedom

14. Links 21/06/2026: Bots from Alibaba Do Harm and Many Xbox Games Are Being Cancelled

    Links for the day

15. 5 Years After Release of Vista 11 Not Even One in 5 People Use It (in the US)

    It doesn't look like Vista 11 will ever be adopted like prior versions and announcing a Vista 12 will mostly upset companies/organisations that only recently "upgraded" to 11

16. Gemini Links 21/06/2026: Boca Raton, Perfect Summer Day, and LLM Doing Things Poorly

    Links for the day

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 20, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, June 20, 2026

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