Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft: Work Weekends Too

   Microsoft literally working its workers to death

2. Stallman Has Explained Slop is "Marketing Hype Campaign" and Torvalds Agreed. The Difference is the Bribes.

   So be like Stallman

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 167 Out of 200: The Court of Appeal Might be the Next Step

   Today is our last vacation day

   New

4. PIPocalypse at IBM

   Silent layoffs

5. Spending Over a Million Bucks on Lawsuits Abroad When There's a Big Mortgage to Pay in America

   Priorities, priorities...

6. Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2026, smol.pub Discussion, and LLM Plagiarism Engines Target Geminispace

   Links for the day

7. Richard Stallman's GNU Turns 43 in 4 Weeks, FSF Growing

   In a few weeks GNU turns 43

8. IBM's Cuts Are Worsening Security in GNU/Linux

   IBM is still run by the same idiot who proposed taking over Red Hat

9. Links 31/08/2026: Anthropic Sued Again for Copyright Infringement of Massive Scale, 'Tokenmaxxing' Shows Slop is a Worthless Liability

   Links for the day

10. Links 31/08/2026: "Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains" and "LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating"

    Links for the day

11. Debian Project Discards About 25% of the Votes on LLM Slop, Microsoft Votes in the General Resolution (GR)

    "[t]he rules of the vote saw community members asked to rank each of the eight proposals. Just under 600 people voted, but Debian’s election team rejected many for unspecified reasons, leaving almost 450 valid votes to count."

12. Essentiality of Rest and Killing Oneself for Vicious Companies

    Working for Microsoft is foolish

13. In the UK, Bing (Microsoft) Down to Lowest Level Since January

    our tax money being passed to Microsoft via MoUs (back door deals with kickbacks)

14. German Government Sponsors IBM Because of GNU/Linux

    Flatpak is sponsored by, run, and controlled by IBM

15. Richard Stallman Speaks to Christine Hall of FOSS Force, stallman.org is Down for Over a Day

    interview does a good job addressing the hype about LLMs too

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 30, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, August 30, 2026

18. Gemini Links 31/08/2026: Holidays, Stream of Consciousness, and Posting Online

    Links for the day

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