Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Only a Matter of Time Before IBM Drops to $199 or a Lot Lower Than That

   How long can IBM overload empty shells?

2. Lots of Microsoft Just Loses Money, Not Earning Money

   Due to profitability challenges it's hard to believe Microsoft will ever find a buyer for XBox

3. Touch Grass

   Happiness involves what humans have evolved to appreciate, not what humans create to sedate the mind (like skinnerboxes)

4. The Cyber Show on Technology Having Become a Tool of Mass Psychosis, Not Enablement or Emancipation

   Technology as mass psychosis

5. The Rumour Said That a Second Wave of Microsoft Layoffs Would Come This Week (Ahead of Fake 'Results'), Maybe Tomorrow

   Let's wait and see how "MSM" unfold

   New

6. Gemini Links 21/07/2026: Nostalgia, Shogi, and New Gemlog System

   Links for the day

7. Guyana: GNU/Linux Rises to New High, 7%

   Guyana is part of the trend

8. Oman: GNU/Linux Up to 7%

   It was 5% last year

9. The Solution is Never 'Free Hosting' in Proprietary GitHub (Microsoft), the Solution is Self-Hosting

   Third parties never care about your projects as much as you (yourself) care about them

10. From GAFAM's Perspective, Jeremy Bicha Did Nothing Wrong

    All is OK as long as he does not criticise monopolists and billionaires

11. Bluesky Was Such an Utter Failure That After 18 Months Mozilla Goes Hug a Nazi Platform That Produces Child Porn

    What compels Mozilla to come back there? The child pornography scandal? The adorable leader?

12. GNU/Linux at Grenada Measured at 14% This Month

    GNU/Linux was stuck at 0% for a long time

13. In WordPress, Newer is Not Better (Maybe Better Off With No WordPress at All)

    To Hell with bloat and feature churn

14. As Slop Bubble Implodes (Inevitable), the Dishonest, Corrupt, Compromised Media Tries to Blame "China" Again (Like it Did With "DeepSeek" in Past Years)

    Here we go again. We've been there before. Same spin, this time not "DeepSeek" though.

15. Red Hat (IBM) Has Long 'Reassigned' (Bluewashed) Red Hat Staff to Ruin Fedora, Now It Does the Same to GNOME

    What next from IBM's Krishna?

16. Links 21/07/2026: Google Stagnating, Slop 'Apps' Are "Flooding Apple’s App Store"

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 21/07/2026: OPNSense Upgrade Problems, Zilog Z80 at 50, and Lessons From Terminator

    Links for the day

18. IBM Lawsuits Over Alleged Fraud Are Piling Up

    We'll keep an eye on the lawsuits

19. Arianna Taite on Odds of Australian (Daniel Pocock) Winning Clacton By-Election

    His detractors somehow try to twist or frame him (Pocock) as an impediment to women while the exact opposite is true

20. This Coming Weekend Marks 4 Years Since We Dumped Content Management Systems (CMSs) in Favour of Static Site Generators (SSGs)

    the first page dated July 25

21. Slop's Latest Casualty: The Credibility of Linus Torvalds

    If you care about millionaires and billionaires, follow Torvalds (he is already in that "club")

22. Techrights Will Become More Productive (More Output) Over Time

    Big stories about to land

23. To Wikipedia, "Notability" is Just an Excuse to Hail People Who Serve Billionaires While Marginalising or Defaming the Rest

    Wikipedia is an advertising space

24. Our Series About Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and SLAPPs Will Resume Soon

    Originally, in 2025, we gave ourselves 6 years (until 2031) to cover these issues, but we've seen since extended that to 10 years (until 2036) because of the amount of material we have

25. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO Transparency Gap

    Despite the "European" tag in the organisation's name, the European Union has no jurisdiction over the European Patent Organisation

26. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

27. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 20, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, July 20, 2026

28. Links 20/07/2026: Lashes for Songs in Iran, Kurdish Language at Risk

    Links for the day

29. Gemini Links 21/07/2026: The Boss Baby (2017) and 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue

    Links for the day

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