Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 06, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM's CEO Makes No Sense

   "IBM CEO Aravind Krishna on what’s really driving tech layoffs"

2. Of Course GNU/Linux Has Reached All-Time High in Africa in 2026

   Africa will, on average, gravitate towards Free software or whatever costs less

3. IBM Buys, Then Disposes/Sacks, the Staff (That It Paid For)

   Any money gained is spent buying some more companies to add/join up their revenue, even if the debt surges and there's little integration going on (misfits absorbed)

4. Time for Microsoft to Rebrand to Fit the Vapourware (Ponzi Scheme)

   something between Meta and Alphabet

5. The Real GNU Anniversary (Not Manifesto or Announcement) is Today

   the development, not the manifesto

6. GNU/Linux Usage Said to Have Doubled in Oceania

   it's hard to discount or dismiss Oceania as a bunch of "coconut islands"

7. No, Writing Isn't in Decline, Some of the Large and Centralised Platforms Are

   Slop isn't really competition, just a passing fad and pure noise

8. The Reputation Issue Is Not Our Fault

   Trying to squash words (and people) merely diverts more attention to them

   New

9. To The Register MS, ARM Means Microsoft Windows (Follow the Money)

   the Free software community can campaign and run sites (like the one below), but it cannot afford to bribe so-called 'news' sites like Microsoft and its OEMs do

10. Links 05/01/2026: Tensions in Korea, Ukrainians See "Double Standard" in a US Russia-Style Invasion

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 05/01/2026: Farewell to CBS Reality, Being On-Call, Digital Ad Spendings

    Links for the day

12. Remember That Nobel Prizes Are All Named After the Inventor of Explosives (Even a "Nobel Prize for Peace")

    These rewards are only as valuable as the reputation they earn for themselves

13. Baidu and Yandex Have Overtaken Microsoft in Asia

    how about all the Bing layoffs?

14. Googlebombing for Bill Epsteingate

    Maybe the slopfarms too can help him cover up

15. From GNU/Linux Boosting to Slop-Boosting Career

    It is sad to see someone who devoted many years of his life producing GNU/Linux stories stooping down to this "AI" boot-licking

16. Links 05/01/2026: Slop Ruining Children's Minds, "Complicity of the Press in US Violence"

    Links for the day

17. Microsoft's Windows Falls Below 20% in the UK

    After a lot of years of advocacy and hard work

18. There's No Such Thing as "AI Godfather", Stop Repeating This Pure Nonsense!

    Infantile or corruptible media that plays along with slop or uses slop will perish

19. Gemini Links 05/01/2026: "Poverty and Hunger", "Entrepreneurial Family", "Abandoning Obsidian for Logseq"

    Links for the day

20. Links 05/01/2026: A Shrinking Canadian Economy, Brigitte Bardot's Environmentalism Recalled, Unredacted Epstein Files

    Links for the day

21. Microsoft Allegedly Uses Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) to Hide the Massive Scale of Company-Wide Layoffs

    Just like IBM; they meanwhile talk a bunch of nonsense about "AI" to distract from their commercial calamity

22. Battles Are Won in the Court of Public Opinion

    Many "systems" rely on the mere perception or appearance of legitimacy

23. GNU/Linux Share in Mongolia More Than Doubles

    they probably lack any genuine excitement for "hey hi PCs"

24. Whistleblowing is About Understanding Boundaries and Risks

    The bottom line is, people typically find out the truth at the end

25. EPO People Power - Part XXV - While EPO Managers Snort Cocaine the Staff Compiles 'Insurance Files' to Expose EPO Corruption

    In this increasingly authoritarian world we need more whistleblowers

26. "The European Patent Reform" That Represents a Gross Violation of Laws, Constitutions, and Conventions (in Order to Make the Rich Even Richer, Mostly Outside Europe)

    How far and how long will EPO corruption go?

27. GNU/Linux Distribution "Ultimate Edition" Fixes Its Web Site (Apparently Compromised Months Ago)

    they dealt with the issue before media shame and a catastrophe of trust

28. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

29. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 04, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, January 04, 2026

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