Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Instant Bluewashing at Confluent: Mass Layoffs Alleged at IBM

   So the main question is, did IBM just fire 800 people?

2. British Justice Minister Sarah Sackman Blasts Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

   The "legal industry" is due for "some reckoning"

   New

3. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men

   For those who never before saw a SLAPP, they basically make many demands

4. "Vibe-forking" and Why It'll Ultimately Fail (Hype on Top of Hype)

   Code made with LLMs sucks; converting solid, human-tested code into slop only complicates matters and increases risk

5. Updates About Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation

   After all those years (a decade) and in spite of phony scandals many people out there still respect him

6. LLM Slop With "Linux" in the Domain Names

   This is becoming a pain and a problem also in the arts and in software engineering

7. The EFF Has a Bug, Fixing This Bug is Likely Not Possible Anymore

   "the EFF's continued existence impairs the arrival of a replacement organization, one which will actually champion digital rights."

8. Sophie Brun, Raphel Hertzog & Debian sexual conflicts of interest

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Links 17/03/2026: Microsoft Windows Broken by Samsung, Afghanistan-Pakistan War Escalation

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 17/03/2026: Newcomers and False-Positive 'Slop'

    Links for the day

11. Héctor Orón Martínez & Debian shadow candidate pressure on Sruthi Chandran

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

12. Links 17/03/2026: American Fentanylware (TikTok) Investors Implicated in Kickbacks, "Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast"

    Links for the day

13. For Third Time in a Week The Register MS Runs Google SPAM That Paints Google as an Ally of Women (Which is False, They're Womanisers)

    What does that make The Register MS to women?

14. GAFAM Deprecating Old Videos ("Content") by Removing the Support for Their Format for No Good Reason

    "Security" is not a valid excuse

15. Credit/Debit Cards Have Long Been Called Plastics, Over Time They're Becoming More Like Pure Plastics

    They cost less than a dollar to manufacture

16. The European Patent Office (EPO) Holds a Public Demonstration Tomorrow and It'll be Live-streamed

    The EPO's workforce was meant to be capable of speaking many languages and have extensive experience in the sciences

17. People Who Attacked Techrights Also Attacked My Mother

    Picking on old ladies because you don't like Free software advocates is never OK

18. Little Community Element Left in CentOS

    CentOS, unlike Fedora, was meant to be long supported and solid

19. Social Control Media is Cancel Culture (Companies Like Facebook Also Punish/Ban Accounts for Mentioning "Linux" and Lobby for Anti-Linux Legislation)

    The masters of Social Control Media decide what ideas can and cannot be expressed

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 16, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, March 16, 2026

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