Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Like Microsoft and IBM, the 'Alicante Mafia'-Governed EPO Does PIPs Nowadays (at the EPO, It's "Professional Incompetence Procedure")

   So "PIPs" are definitely in the EPO and we saw letters sent to staff

2. Time for Change, More New Articles, Less Curation

   The oligarchy wants to gut the real press and replace media with slop and social control media (or social control media with slop in it, i.e. their own voices, mechanised)

3. Almost 1,600 EPO Employees Went on Strike Last Week

   There is another strike coming 2.5 weeks from now

4. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

   New

5. Links 05/02/2026: EU Commission Gutting Net Neutrality

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 05/02/2026: NixOS Books and Monochrome Emojis

   Links for the day

7. Links 05/02/2026: Canadian Government Uses US LLMs to Override Expert Opinions, NVIDIA Troubles Due to Enablement of Mass Plagiarism ('Piracy') Misleadingly Obscured as "Hey Hi"

   Links for the day

8. Explaining the Letter From JUDGE SYKES FRIXOU, Threatening Me Around the Time GNOME's Nat Friedman Lost His CEO Job at Microsoft GitHub and His Best Friend Got Arrested for Strangulation

   this letter (with annotation) is critical

9. Linuxiac Not Rehabilitated, It's Still Full of LLM Slop (Part of a Trend)

   The Web as a resource/source of information is perishing

10. "Sponsored by Azul" to Write Fake 'Article' About Azul, Quoting Azul Itself

    The "journalism" industry [sic] became so utterly corrupt

11. JuristGate is for sale: three billion Swiss francs for a domain name

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. Gemini Links 05/02/2026: Coercion, Antibiotics, and LVDT Project

    Links for the day

13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 04, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, February 04, 2026

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