Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 08, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft's XBox CEO Asha Sharma Tells Staff That Many Thousands of Layoffs Are in Fact "Return to Growth"

   Get it? Layoffs are "growth".

2. Gemini Links 07/10/2026: Nostalgia, Neutral Map, and Shorthanding

   Links for the day

3. Slop is Plagiarism

   Plagiarism is not "theft" and copyright infringement is not "piracy"

   New

4. Gemini Links 07/10/2026: On Feeling Guilty Leaving the US, Multinet, and Limiting Net Usage

   Links for the day

5. The Cyber Show Explains the Concept of "Data Rape"

   a metaphor some might find crude

6. FREE BEER is Still Online, But Barely Active

   25 years ago or even 20 years ago many spoke of open/free beer (or "COLA")

7. Syria: GNU/Linux Has Surged to 8% "Market Share"

   I don't have a convincing explanation for this

8. IBM Dimming Down the Lights on IBM Consulting, No Knowledge or Experience Required

   They just "ride" the (old) brand, that's all

9. Statement on American SLAPP

   Crossposted from schestowitz.com

10. Today The Register MS Published "SPONSORED FEATURE" and "SPONSORED POST" With "AI" 31 Times in Them

    This isn't a "Reality" or "Era of AI", it's a paid-for spam campaign

11. Links 07/10/2026: Unrest in France and Rumours of Plague in Russia

    Links for the day

12. Brigading Against Women - Part XXII - The Lozza Problem (in Length)

    Garrett's case was a waste of the Court's money

13. JavaScript in Richard Stallman's Web Site

    For search he is using CGI, not JavaScript

14. EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) Plans Presentation Next Week (Coinciding With Apparent Coronation of 'Cocaine King' Campinos)

    They've outsourced this session to the dictator's spying eye

15. The GNOME Foundation's Code of Conduct Has Been Misused to Hide Corruption

    People who value free speech and freedom of expression won't touch social control media with a 10-foot bargepole

16. Voting for Freedom of the Press

    American elections happen every 4 years

17. What Brett Wilson LLP and Matt Garrett Don't Want People to See/Read

    Book-burning is counterproductive

18. Book-Burning Mindset Does Not Work

    It makes the suppressed voices more widely known

19. Microsoft's XBox in 'Freefall'

    XBox is practically finished

20. IBM is Almost Defunct

    IBM is doomed. It just tries to test how much more patience the shareholders have.

21. Criminalisation of Journalism

    "Journalist Derya Okatan arrested in Turkey for allegedly possessing classified material"

22. Brigading Against Women - Part XXI - Hiding Behind the Veil of "Privacy" After Telling Nazi Things in IRC Channels of Techrights and Physically Threatening People

    To merely explain an abuse (or crime) requires naming people; that's a fundamental tenet of reporting

23. Links 07/10/2026: Quitting Smartphone and "Meta's Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family"

    Links for the day

24. Gemini Links 07/10/2026: Greed, In Praise of Zotero, and The de-Google Path

    Links for the day

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 06, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 06, 2026

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