Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 29, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Five Years After Its Formation Libera.Chat Has the Most Simultaneous Users in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

   netsplit.de also measures the cross-network total at over 300k, probably for the first time in years

   New

2. Outsourcing is Not Security

   Outsourcing to Microsoft is the opposite of security

3. Links 28/06/2026: Turkey's State Broadcaster Suspends Commentator, Journalists Under Attack

   Links for the day

4. Debugpoint.com Turns to LLM Slop for 'Help'

   This is how sites die

5. Follow the Real Security Experts

   Werner Koch

6. Assessing the Upcoming (July) Proprietary/GAFAM Cuts

   The total (or %) matters to us because it can help shed light on what scale of layoffs to expect next week

7. Microsoft Lunduke Does Not Correct or Clarify Misinformation That He Posted (or Repeats It Instead)

   Not the first time [...] detracts and/or distracts from legitimate criticisms

8. How Not to Do Security

   Asking Microsoft for permission

9. Gemini Links 28/06/2026: Simulation Theory and Pursuit of Novelty

   Links for the day

10. The Slop 'Religion' is Dying: From Widespread (Paid-for) Hype to Widespread Hate

    Wait till "sentiment" in Wall Street - not just general (public) "sentiment" - shifts strongly against slop

11. For Whistleblowers' Sake, Choose Hosting Platforms Wisely

    Techrights is hard to 'sedate'

12. How to Discreetly Leak Important Information to Techrights

    Some years ago we published multi-part series about how to contact us securely

13. Expect Many More Whistleblowers From Microsoft

    We envision many pissed off workers from Microsoft will become whistleblowers after next week's giant wave

14. Efforts to Resume Progress on FreeJS, LibreJS, and Reduce Dependence on Microsoft

    It's still in a relatively early development stage

15. Whistleblowers Improve the World

    we should appreciate and respect whistleblowers

16. Microsoft Windows Plunges to All-Time Lows in Japan

    Microsoft is disintegrating; many people no longer use (nor need) Windows

17. GNU/Linux Turns 43 in 3 Months From Now

    The Manifesto of the Free software movement (GNU Manifesto, 1985) turned 40 last year

18. SLAPP Censorship - Part 121 Out of 200: One Day We'll Discover What Company or Rich Person/s Funded the Lawfare Against Us

    Even if the law firm shoulders some of the losses, then it is in effect an investor in the lawfare, according to established caselaw

19. Working on "Linux", But on Microsoft's Payroll

    Under the totally false guise of "security" those same people are now promoting TPMs and other horrible things

20. Links 28/06/2026: Energy Crunch, EEE by Microsoft, and John Bolton Pleads Guilty in Dictatorship of SLAPPs

    Links for the day

21. Jim Not Dead Yet

    Let's wait a few more days

22. Microsoft Layoffs So Big They Cannot Even Wait for 'D-Day' (July 1)

    "Layoffs at Xbox Appear to Have Already Begun, with Multiple Compulsion Games Employees Announcing Their Departures"

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 27, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, June 27, 2026

25. Links 28/06/2026: Heatwave in Europe and Media Failing to Actually Criticise Power

    Links for the day

26. Gemini Links 28/06/2026: Poems, Photographs, and Neoliberalism as Religion

    Links for the day

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