Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Nearly 1,000 People at EPO 'Met' to Plan Further Strikes and Impending Action to Dethrone Corrupt Leadership

   Exploring the purchasing "power" of EPO leadership (buying elections while doing cocaine in public)

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 196 Out of 200: Sending Someone to Our Doorstep to Ship Approximately 5 KG of Legal Papers (Instead of to Our Representatives)

   it is not about law, this is lawfare

3. Same Name/Brand, Not the Same Project/Product

   What is Linux becoming?

4. Germany, Like Switzerland, Will Dump Microsoft's Proprietary Software and Disservices, Then Dump Windows for GNU/Linux

   This impacts not only the Windows revenue; this corrodes any "rents" Microsoft was getting from "subscriptions"

5. There Are Likely Over a Thousand Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Networks Online, Net Gain of 16 Seen This Month by Andreas Gelhausen's netsplit.de

   It's good that they're still tracking that sort of stuff

   New

6. IBM Grapevine: Development Outsourced to LLM Slop and It Results in Many Bugs

   IBM is circling down the drain and every insider knows it

7. Microsoft Gives Many People the 'Booty' This Week, Not Counting PIPs (Silent Layoffs and 'Voluntary' Layoffs)

   Microsoft PIPs allegedly target "20-25% in some teams."

8. Links 23/09/2026: Pax Silica Hub Ruins a Country for a Pyramid Scheme (Slop), Convicted Felon's Press Block Resembles Iran, Russia, China

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 23/09/2026: Stuck, Gambling, Fury Road, IPFS, and More

   Links for the day

10. The Register Got Paid Today to Spew Out "AI" Almost 50 Times (Keeping the Pyramid Scheme Buzzing in Headlines)

    paid-for spam

11. IBM's Anderon Already Smells Like a Fraud and IBM Insiders Heckle the Lies From the Management

    Sabine Hossenfelder recently made some videos which explain in simple terms why IBM is lying and has already lied about this for years

12. Links 23/09/2026: Mass-Surveillance by Clownflare and "Data Centre" Crunch Commences

    Links for the day

13. 3 Years Divorced From Americans

    Next year we plan to pursue the UK's Court of Appeal

14. The Register MS Uses Slop About Slop (in Images)

    Months ago we caught The Register MS using slop for text as well

15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 195 Out of 200: Two Years Since Garrett, Graveley and Lozza Worked in Parallel to Censor Techrights

    It began in September 2024, shortly after we had sued Garrett

16. Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 8 - In Conclusion

    this can invite more SCO-like problems in the future

17. Microsoft Shuts Down More Studios, Morale Low, More Mass Layoffs Ahead of Reports

    They pretend it's not happening or that it's a lot smaller than it actually is

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, September 22, 2026

20. Gemini Links 23/09/2026: Ljubljana, Poetry, and FORTRAN

    Links for the day

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