Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: A Costa-Benefit Analysis: Has the Asset Become a Liability?

   All other things being equal, one could expect the Portuguese political establishment to support Campinos in his reappointment bid. But what if all other things are no longer equal because the former "asset" has in the meantime become a "liability"?

2. Brigading Against Women - Part XIV - Mastery of Distraction

   The finger-pointing actions themselves prove the saying that even an accusation is likely a confession

   New

3. Gemini Links 02/10/2026: Hitchhiking, Dream, Journey of Thoughts, and ROOPHLOCH

   Links for the day

4. IBM in Such a Bad Shape That Silent Layoffs Have Come to India

   Make it hard for IBM to hide what's happening

5. The Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (Secret Layoffs) Not Limited to This Week or to October 1st

   Red Hat can shed off 10% of its staff without anyone in the media uttering a word

6. The Latest "PARTNER CONTENT" at The Register MS is by Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO

   Maybe The Register MS can just run ads, not articles, and hope nobody will notice

7. Links 02/10/2026: Turkey's Censorship of Journalists Grows, "Hong Kong Journalist Arrested After Covering Gathering Linked to 2019 Protests"

   Links for the day

8. IBM's Red Hat is a Slave of Microsoft, It Does Not Compete With Microsoft

   As released and shown earlier today in "Red Hat Partner Connect"/redhat.com

9. Red Hat: Stop Saying Master, It's Racist. Today's Red Hat: "Master Your Skills" and Adopt Slop Plagiarism

   IBM is shredding Red Hat to pieces while it keeps humiliating the collective intelligence of communities

10. Reform UK, Nigel Farage's party/company, admits missing winding-up petition

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

11. Links 02/10/2026: "McDonald's Caught Cheating Consumers for Profit" and "It's Not Illegal If You Buy New Laws"

    Links for the day

12. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XVII - A Vote for Campinos This Month (Reappointment) Would be an Endorsement of Cocaine

    The harder they try to silence critics, the worse it'll get

13. The Cyber Show on "Career Scientists" (Resellers of Establishment Brands Like GAFAM)

    "The "career scientist" - with PhD and research office by their mid-twenties - follows well oiled tracks and institutional signposts, steering away from controversial or "difficult" subjects."

14. Reporting Court Matters While Preserving Dignity of Staff

    There's a high and growing probability we'll take our appeal to the Court of Appeal next year

15. Broligarchs Speech-Policing, Faux 'Community' or 'Hub' in 'User-Driven' Clothing

    Until a broligarch decides to "flag" inconvenient stories

16. Gemini Links 02/10/2026: Haiku, Microsoft EEE ('Linux' as a Container in Windows), and ROOPHLOCH 2026 Roundup

    Links for the day

17. Microsoft Promised Them Bonuses, Instead They May Get Laid Off

    Laid off or paid off?

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 01, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, October 01, 2026

20. Lots of People Left Red Hat This Week, No Announcement Made of Layoffs

    Companies just find ways and excuses not to announce their layoffs

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