Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Shobhit Varshney From IBM Pushing Slop at Large Bank, Another McDonald's Waiting to Happen?

   How long can they get away with phony narratives like "replaced by AI"?

2. So When Will British Politicians, Police, Government Departments Quit Twitter (X.com)?

   They sure bring constituents there (by being there)

3. IBM Red Hat Does Not Compete With Microsoft, It's a Microsoft Reseller

   even if employees of Red Hat dislike and distrust Microsoft

4. Dr. Andy Farnell on Marketing Bad Things Like Slop Using FOMO (Fear of "Being Left Behind")

   many of the same themes we often cover here

5. IBM Stock Compared to Bitcoin, Fake Articles About IBM Promote Myths About IBM

   The stock moves based on false marketing

   New

6. Links 13/01/2026: Russia Weaponises Weather Against Civilians, Beijing-Controlled HK Attacks Legal Team of Besieged Critics

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 13/01/2026: Loss of Desire to Produce, Individual Consumption

   Links for the day

8. Links 13/01/2026: Ubisoft Layoffs, "India IT In Shambles", and Microsoft Chatbot Killing People

   Links for the day

9. IBM is Not a Leftist Company, the "I" Stands for Imperialism, and Poo Floats to the Top

   Remember that AK is military from both sides of his family

10. Links 13/01/2026: More Mass Layoffs in GAFAM, Catching Up With Political News of Early January

    Links for the day

11. Freedom of Speech in the UK (or Freedom of the Press/Expression) and Protection From Adversaries

    undressing people without consent and in very bad taste is not "speech"

12. Ending the Status Quo at the European Patent Office (EPO) This Year

    Things will continue to get worse as long as the "Digital Majority" stays silent and/or passive

13. Greenland Ought to Move to GNU/Linux, Not Apple

    GNU/Linux at 4%

14. If You Care About Freedom, Don't Follow IBM Red Hat (Like Microsoft Novell 20 Years Ago)

    IBM Red Hat and Microsoft don't seem to compete

15. Red Hat Layoffs, Even of "AI" Staff in India

    This is how companies die

16. LLM Slop Isn't Replacing Online News, It's Just a Pest That's Gradually Going Away as Money for Slop Runs Out

    Slop likes to talk about itself (like some kind of 'web-cancer')

17. Not Journalism: Almost 80% of the 'Articles' We Saw About Torvalds and 'Vibe Coding' Are LLM Slop (Sometimes Slop Images)

    The real issue is, Torvalds who created Git as a solution to proprietary prison is entertaining Microsoft's own proprietary prison

18. EPO People Power - Part XXXIII - Interest From Some European Media, For a Change

    Without it, we'll become another Russian Federation

19. Just Another Reminder That Microsoft Didn't Deny Mass Layoffs

    Remember that Microsoft never denied this

20. GNU/Linux Measured at 6% in Réunion This Year

    Population sizes like a million people are nothing to sneeze at

21. Bluewashing Continues, Red Hat Onboarding Interns in Low-Paid Regions

    It's the end of the second Monday of 2026

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 12, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, January 12, 2026

24. Gemini Links 13/01/2026: ScottoRang and Outage

    Links for the day

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