Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. XBox Being Discontinued, Some Models of XBox Canceled, Not on Sale Anymore

   First some of the largest retailers quit stocking/selling XBox, now a 2TB model is axed

2. Firehose of Spam (Fake News) From The Register MS Today

   This is how awful the state of news sites really is

3. Natural Disasters and Personal Disasters

   Thank you, Om Malik, for the positive memories

   New

4. Links 26/06/2026: SoftBank Forbids Mentioning That Slop is a Scam, "'We Need Courageous People' to Combat Greed and Corruption"

   Links for the day

5. Gemini Links 26/06/2026: "Negativity of Reddit" and "Moving Blog to Gemini"

   Links for the day

6. Same MIT Site That Fabricated the Fake News for IBM is Still Being Paid to Produce Fake "Reports" That Prop Up a Ponzi Scheme

   If this is the media we deserve as a society and believe keeps us informed, then we are all doomed

7. 'Social' Slop: The Social Control Media and Slop Crises Are Converging

   Social Control Media and slop may have a shared fate. People will shun them both.

8. Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Speaks Out Against Campinos and Informs the Chairman of the EPO Administrative Council

   Does Mr. Kratochvíl pay any attention at all?

9. 'António the Pretender' Campinos is Digging His Own Grave With Grotesque Lobbying Intended to Undermine Democracy in Europe's Second-Largest Institution

   One way or another, the EPO will never be the same again

10. The Principle of "Do No Harm"

    "Do No Harm" is a common saying

11. After Years of Bluewashing People Who Are Still Labelled "Red Hat" Suddenly 'Leave' (Might be PIPs), IBM in "Forever Layoffs" Loop

    Remember that Red Hat had mass layoffs this year

12. Microsoft Staff Bracing for Impact Ahead of "Layoffs Lottery"

    some people start to assess who will get culled next

13. Donald Trump and IBM's CEO: Twins Separated at Birth, Saturating the Media With False Reports About Things That Don't Exist

    Every "journalist" that went ahead with this fake news should be sacked on the spot for a rejection of fact-checking

14. The Register MS Will Become Indistinguishable From Spamfarms at This Current Pace

    Follow the money...

15. Microsoft Layoffs Have Already Begun in Its PR Department

    It is called Waggener Edstrom

16. Techrights Community as Litigants in Person (LIPs)

    Unwittingly and due to circumstances we're had to step in to protect women abused by monstrous men who lack empathy

17. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Rest and Recuperation on the Adriatic Coast

    The EPO President's connections with the Croatian SIPO date back to his days as head of the EU trademark agency EUIPO

18. Slopfarms Becoming Scarce and Few (or Inactive)

    we'll try to refrain from even giving the remaining slopfarms any visibility

19. The Register MS Promotes Things That Do Not Exist... for Money

    How much more ZTE spam will come out before 5PM?

20. Links 26/06/2026: RIP, Om Malik, 1966-2026

    Links for the day

21. Memory Leaks Suck

    Slop ('vibe') coding means lots of bad programs

22. Gemini Links 25/06/2026: Life Philosophy and Misery

    Links for the day

23. GAFAM Became a Mainstream Term, and Why Words Matter

    Conveying problems in useful terms [...] Impairing propaganda attempts (e.g. calling parrots "intelligence", back doors "confidential", and outsourcing "cloud") should be the first step

24. European Patent Office (EPO) on Strike Today, Next Week Another Historic Week

    If you live in Europe, contact your delegates today

25. FSF FreeJS Project (Part of the GNU Project's Goals) Advanced Further in 2026

    They're moving to reduce dependence on anything to do with Microsoft

26. SLAPP Censorship - Part 119 Out of 200: Our Suggestions to Our Politicians and Heads of State

    coverage about SLAPPs and related matters

27. Microsoft Already Closing Down Studios, According to Some Publishers

    It is being compared to what happened in Intel

28. IBM PIP Stories Told in Public, Fake IBM News (Fabricated Claims) Drown Media Sites

    IBM is seeding fake news to help justify the bailout

29. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

30. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 25, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, June 25, 2026

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