Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM Effect at Confluent: Mass Layoffs and IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) Said to be Violated

   For Confluent employees who survived the layoffs there will be "culture chock"

   New

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network

   For those who have not followed our story

3. Microsoft "hiding behind bigger news of war, Epstein, other companies' layoffs"

   They know what's coming, they just don't know when

4. Joerg Jaspert (Debian Account Manager/DAM) personally approved Raphael Hertzog's wife Sophie Brun

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

5. Letter 'A' prohibited by Code of Conduct extremism

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. Spoiler: Diversity & Debian means different things to different people

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

7. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Admits Failures and Criticism of Inaction on SLAPPs

   many if not all solicitors and solicitor firms in the UK are in effect unregulated

8. Archiving or Preserving Pages About IBM Layoffs

   Layoffs at IBM and the media does not talk about these

9. ABC, the American National Broadcaster, "Now Publishes Slop"

   If the "big media" absorbs slop, it'll no longer be trusted and therefore not read/watched by the public

10. Links 19/03/2026: Culling Deepfakes of Artists’ Music and "Age Verification Isn’t the Answer"

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 19/03/2026: "Aktion GPT-4" and "Kill All Descendants"

    Links for the day

12. "AI" 15 Times in Short 'Article' From The Register MS. And The Register MS Got Paid to Publish It.

    gets paid to do this

13. People Who Decided to Boycott Novell Over Its Microsoft Alliance Should Also Boycott Canonical

    As an associate put it, "selling out further, due to Microsoft moles inside Canonical"

14. Links 19/03/2026: "AI Glasses" as Euphemism for Mass Surveillance and ABC (US) Has Begun Publishing Slop as 'News'

    Links for the day

15. The European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, is on Strike Today

    Lots more to come

16. What People Impacted by the Bluewashing Layoffs at IBM Confluent Say (While the Media Says Nothing at All, in Effect Burying the News)

    Worse yet, the mainstream media spreads lies about it right now

17. IBM Has Turned Red Hat and Fedora Into Slop

    This is IBM policy

18. IBM is Being Robbed, Companies and Jobs Are Destroyed

    Companies taken over by IBM will be exploited and destroyed to keep a bubble inflated for a little while longer

19. In Confluent Layoffs, IBM Vapourises a Quarter of Its Workforce (IBM Buys Something That It Destroys Already)

    In the past, such things were typically referred to as "media blackout"; now it's just "the norm".

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, March 18, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, March 18, 2026

22. Links 19/03/2026: LLM Fatigue (It Doesn't Work as Advertised), "Small Web Feeds"

    Links for the day

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