Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 17, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share"

   Looking at "I" countries

2. Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities

   Links for the day

3. IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries)

   Are chatbots good enough as IBM staff?

4. Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon

   Social control media is not social and not media

   New

5. The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft

   It's not supporting the event, it is buying it.

6. Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked

   Calling everything cloud or reclassifying as "AI"

7. Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week

   Campinos MIA while Office staff goes on strike at least 4 times

8. Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma"

   Links for the day

9. Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews

   "Happy Birthday SoylentNews"

10. Techrights' Architecture

    Stability is the main goal

11. Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace

    Gemini Protocol will turn 7 this summer

12. Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub)

    Links for the day

13. The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill

    We accomplish things by a track record of suppressed facts

14. "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles

    presenting direct evidence anybody can verify

15. They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"

    Is society "seeing the light"?

16. Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation"

    This is basically an attack on Software Freedom, even if they toss around the brand "Linux"

17. More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux

    Last year we began to see GNU/Linux rising there - a trend which continues this year

18. Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare"

    Farnell says he "already soft-quit in [his] mind"

19. Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google

    Expect many more cuts

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, February 15, 2026

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