Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 18, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers

   Change one character, bill the client tens or hundreds of thousands of US dollars

2. Behind the Scenes With Richard Stallman

   If you support his ideas, even if you dislike him as a person, then you'll welcome his ability to speak about those ideas

   New

3. European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed

   Even before the strikes happened any day of the week

4. Pension Contribution Increases as Another Attack on Compensation for EPO Staff (Mostly Patent Examiners)

   Pension contribution increases!

5. Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword

   not a word regarding IBM layoffs

6. Gemini Links 17/04/2026: "Many Problems and Inequities in the Legal System", "No Place to Hide"

   Links for the day

7. Links 17/04/2026: SRA Breaks Its Own Rules as Solicitor Attempts Suicide, IPv6 Barely Hits 50% After 20+ Years

   Links for the day

8. ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both?

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

9. Gemini Links 17/04/2026: Getting competent in NixOS and Alhena 5.5.6 Released

   Links for the day

10. Links 17/04/2026: "We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine" and "When Leaders Should Resign"

    Links for the day

11. GizChina Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, I.e. Fake News Site With Fake Text

    Don't waste a moment reading LLM slop, as at the very least it rewards plagiarism [...] Deemed to be slop also by two human beings, not just two scanners

12. Massive, Cross-Site Strike at the EPO Today

    There's coordination across sites for maximal pressure

13. Dr. Andy Farnell Says "AI" is "Only a Marketing Term" for Things That Exist for "Entertainment Purposes Only"

    distortion or misuse of the term (now buzzword/s) "AI"

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, April 16, 2026

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