Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2026

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1. An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part I - A Matter of National Security

   Those people are Americans who try to advance the interests of American corporations by weaponising courts abroad

2. The Register MS, Sponsored by Communist Party of China (CPC)

   What will happen when the bubble crashes the economy?

   New

3. Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Buying Woodland, Indra 1.3.0 Available, and LLM Exhaustion

   Links for the day

4. The Harder They Attempt to Take Down This Site (and Take Away Liberties), the More People Will See This Site

   We'll carry on as usual, as from sunlight comes justice

5. Why They Always Try to Shoot the Messenger (When the Message Harms Profits)

   A matter of economics

6. Coinbase - Like Block - is in Huge Trouble, Its Debt Nearly Doubled in Half a Year

   The real reason Block is collapsing is its debt

7. Starting Another New Series This Evening, It's About American Folly

   today commences a series long in the making (years)

8. Nations Stand to Benefit From Gender Equality and Increased Participation by Women

   International Women's Rights Day starts in about 6 hours in the UK

9. Microsoft is Losing It, Now It's Censoring Its Critics and Sceptics

   Whether the measurements made by statCounter are accurate or not, the trends (long-term) typically make sense

10. WIRED (Conde Nast) Reviews Are Paid-for Marketing Spam, They Change Dates on Old 'Articles' to Make Them Look Relevant and New

    The Web is fast becoming a burial ground for ads, trash, spam, and slop

11. Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Humour, Chilling, and Oversized 'Phones'

    Links for the day

12. Cyber|Show by Andy and Helen Recommended by Techrights and Tux Machines

    If your time is limited and you look for informative essays and shows (audio)

13. Links 07/03/2026: CJEU to Finally Examine Behaviour of the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Kangaroo Court, Creative Commons (CC) Hosts Open Heritage Statement Event in Amsterdam

    Links for the day

14. Microsoft's Thailand Problem

    It's definitely not Windows

15. New Lows for Microsoft in Micronesia

    GNU/Linux has shown some growth there too

16. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 5 Out of 200: Clearly Not a Security Professional/Expert, Only Ever Pretending to be One

    "The Claimant says he is “a computer security expert”, but his background and his track record in the education sense (genetics) does not support this assertion."

17. Links 07/03/2026: Fuel Already Running Low and "Economic Crisis of the Iran War"

    Links for the day

18. The Corporate Media Repeated the Lies Told by Jack Dorsey ("AI" Hype), Now It Does the Same for Larry Ellison

    Disregard the hundreds of headlines that say mass layoffs at Oracle are due to "AI" something

19. The Free Software Community is Gaining Momentum as Its Importance is More Broadly Realised

    As long as "trendy" technology goes in a negative direction there will be a growing portion in society looking for alternatives

20. Spooking or Chasing Away Women (From Computer Science)

    The status quo discourages women from even trying to study Computer Science and related disciplines

21. "IBM Has Changed So Much in the Last Decade to the Point It's Completely Unrecognizable."

    IBM is a dying, rotting company with a morbid culture

22. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

23. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 06, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, March 06, 2026

24. Gemini Links 07/03/2026: Coffee Problem, Marchintosh, Learning, and "Selectively Disabling HTTP"

    Links for the day

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