Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Network Plumbing

   We hope it'll help speed things up

2. "My Hands Are Shaking While Writing" About IBM's Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (Bluewashing)

   Shame, shame, shame on the corporate media for not covering Red Hat's layoffs this year

3. Taking a Look at the Last Articles of Bob Cringely at Forbes, They Were All About IBM and Its Collapse

   It's all about IBM

4. What is "Computer Science"? It is What Broligarchs Reject.

   Nowadays some people call themselves informal terms or made-up titles (with terms like "AI" or "big data" or "data" tossed into the mix)

   New

5. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again (October 2026), So-Called 'AI' Units Impacted Because Slop ('AI') Has No Real Future

   So much for the future of Microsoft being "hey hi" (AI)

6. European Readers, Please Contact Representatives (in One's Nation) Attending the Administrative Council Meeting

   Normalising cocaine in in Europe's largest institutions (the people running these) is a slippery slope

7. For Half a Year the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Has Had Water Problems in the Toilets

   And it's not being fixed

8. Intercontinental Brigading - Part I - The Failed Attempt to 'Swat' Our Series About the Attacks and Crimes Committed Against Us

   This coincided with threats to our lives

9. Links 12/10/2026: Strike on Riyadh and GOP Pays Voters ("Surprise $90 Social Security Payments")

   Links for the day

10. Microsoft's XBox CEO Spoke of a "Return to Growth" Last Week, But XBox Sales Lowest in XBox History (Quarter of a Century)

    Microsoft's XBox is dying. It's a countdown to nothingness.

11. Links 12/10/2026: Shopify (Slop Booster) Has Security Issues, "Russia’s Yandex Says Data Center in Vladimir Shut Down After Drone Attack"

    Links for the day

12. Microsoft Windows Causes Problems (and Delays) to LibreOffice and The Document Foundation

    Nothing would please Microsoft more than Windows curtailing the development of LibreOffice and adoption of ODF

13. So Far This Year Microsoft Windows Lost a Lot of Ground in China, GNU/Linux Gaining at Its Expense

    GNU/Linux will soon exceed 10%

14. Lessons of Margaret Hamilton (Software Engineer)

    Stop abetting men who attack women in the sciences

15. RIP, Bob Cringely

    He was too young to leave us, his articles were still brilliant and his mind as lucid as ever

16. Linus Torvalds Has a Conflict of Interest Regarding Slop

    Linus Torvalds is paid by the slop pushers

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 11, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, October 11, 2026

19. Africa Sees GNU/Linux Exceeding 5% "Market Share"

    It wasn't always like this. It used to be measured at 1 or 2 percent.

20. Brigading Against Women - Part XXVII - Americans and Public Executions

    "People who work for Facebook / Xitter / Bytedance's Tiktok / Microsoft / Oracle / IBM / Apple / Uber / Lyft / Wolt / DoorDash / AirBnB / Bolt / and so on are doing some world-class projection when they have the audacity to call others Bad People(tm)"

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