Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 06, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Red Hat is Phased Out of Existence This Month Onwards

   Within a few years we'll probably not see many redhat.com addresses anymore; many became ibm.* last week

2. NVIDIA Buys the Media With Companies It Sponsors to Pretend to be Customers (Circular Funding Scheme)

   The media crisis worsens

3. Brigading Against Women - Part IXX - Overreaction From Young Female Professional After Invalid Threats Made and Sent From an Incel in Another Continent

   Cowards who send threats after committing crimes online

4. libera.chat is an Agenda-Peddling Platform Run by Agenda-Peddling Individuals

   The volunteers of libera.chat ("staff") aren't working for free, they work towards an agenda

   New

5. Finland's GNU/Linux Share Measured at 12%

   Last month GNU/Linux was measured at about 10% in Finland

6. UK Layoffs and Closures by Microsoft. In Expected Blow, Microsoft Likely Shuts Down Another Studio.

   Microsoft's layoffs are never-ending, they just try to keep them all secret.

7. Discussion About Potential Sale of EPO Buildings and Enshittification of Europe's Largest Patent Office

   It's noteworthy that only one hour (or 70 minutes) was devoted to so many topics

8. Stonewalling by Bots

   We'll now turn our attention back to EPO and other matters

9. Gemini Links 05/10/2026: "Posthumanism", Cardputer, and More

   Links for the day

10. Links 05/10/2026: “I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” and Slop Scammers "Lobbying the Vatican"

    Links for the day

11. SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD Officially Insolvent, Is Reform UK Next?

    Sirius no more

12. Links 05/10/2026: "Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again" and Update on Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence

    Links for the day

13. Nobel Season is Plutocracy Week

    Later this week the billionaires will give a fake "Nobel" (in "Economics") to someone who parrots their preferred narrative and those same billionaires will use "Nobel" to bless the promoter of their latest pyramid scheme/buzzword

14. GNU/Linux Market Share in North America 13% This Past Weekend

    It is perhaps not shocking that adoption of GNU/Linux is very high there

15. When Did Europe Begin to Side With White-Collar Criminals (or Participate in Suppressing People Who Oppose Them)?

    How much corruption can we tolerate before the European Union becomes another Russian Federation?

16. Libera Chat's "Level of Control Might Make Sense for a Corporate Platform"

    IRC is not centralised

17. Brigading Against Women - Part XVIII - Turning Censorship Attempts (Articles About Matthew Garrett) Into Mild Redactions

    What Lozza did two years ago

18. Greenland Needs Digital Sovereignty

    the large icy island isn't moving to GNU/Linux as quickly as the rest of Europe

19. Tracker of Internet Relay Chat Networks Out of Service (But Not Down) Since Thursday

    We should note that the number of unique networks they track has grown since we last checked

20. Gemini Links 05/10/2026: NixOS, Guix, Codeberg Banning Slop, and "Gopher Apps on Android"

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 04, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 04, 2026

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