Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 15, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The Deleted Article About Mass Layoffs at IBM (April 2026)

   Resurrected

2. Lots of Positive News Lately, Microsoft GitHub in Trouble

   it's not too crazy to speculate about GitHub being the next Skype (or CodePlex)

3. The Register MS Has "Webinars" (Marketing); They're Promoting Ponzi Schemes or Slop But Disguised as "Intelligence"

   These "webinars" are just spam displayed to people as if it contains real information

4. It Was Always About Freedom and Sovereignty (or Self-Determination)

   About 24 hours from now Richard Stallman (RMS) will be giving a talk in Texas

5. Mass Layoffs at IBM Again, Just in Time for the Fake "Results" Next Week

   Slopfarm will issue some chaff to give an illusion of journalism

6. Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana Falls to Another New Low

   Botswana is a fairly large country

7. SLAPP Censorship - Part 47 Out of 200: British Courts Are Not Censorship Offices for Americans Funded by Affluent Third Parties

   Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) was scrutinised by our government

8. More Than 6 Months After a Very Close Friend of António Campinos and EPO Official Caught With Cocaine Campinos is Cracking Down on - or Stealing From - EPO Staff

   Now they go after the "Education and Childcare Allowance"

9. Links 14/04/2026: Data Breaches and LLM Slop in Courts

   Links for the day

10. Gemini Links 14/04/2026: Mastodon in the Terminal and a Voxel Engine

    Links for the day

11. Links 14/04/2026: Against US Monopolies in UK, Legal Action Against Twitter

    Links for the day

12. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Under Scrutiny Today in the British Government's Meeting, Grilled for Its Failure to Regulate Rogue Law Firms

    Things are not improving

13. The Series About SLAPPs Funded by Third Parties: All Parts Thus Far

    index for today

14. SLAPP Censorship - Part 46 Out of 200: Alex Graveley's Attorney Rick Cofer Did Not Deny That Graveley Had Strangled Women; He Did, However, Pay Local Officials

    some background about SLAPPs that began in 2021 very shortly after I wrote about corruption at Microsoft GitHub

15. The EPO's Attitude Towards Women and Media Silence on EPO Unrest

    There's media blackout about very critical matters

16. Gemini Links 14/04/2026: Greed Versus Stability; Board and Card Games

    Links for the day

17. Links 14/04/2026: Cheeto Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against the Media, "France Takes Its 129 Tonnes of Gold Uut of New York"

    Links for the day

18. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

19. IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 13, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, April 13, 2026

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