Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 27, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 58 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP Helped Garrett and Graveley Make Equivalent of GAFAM NDAs Superficially 'Enforceable' in the UK, Using Threats

   laziness results in many hours and high lawyers' fees

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2. Journalistic Malpractice: Helping Microsoft Paint 'Voluntary' Layoffs (Before PIPs) as "Buyouts"

   What does this tell us about today's media?

3. The Man IBMers Regard or Already See as Likely Successor of Krishna (or Next CEO of IBM) is a Slop Fanatic

   How dangerously misguided

4. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part VI - Management of the European Patent Office (EPO) Covered Up Cocaine Use, Even Colleagues Not Informed

   the self-described "fu

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5. Who Controls Fedora? IBM and GAFAM.

   Don't for a moment believe that IBM understands GNU/Linux. We are quite certain nobody in IBM's Board of Directors uses it.

6. State of Slop About GNU/Linux

   As the incentive to publish is reduced (competing with slop is no fun), the effort/money invested in stories goes down

7. Links 26/04/2026: Korean Inflation, GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Cognitive Impairment, Lithuania's Public Broadcaster LRT Besieged

   Links for the day

8. Hopefully Smooth Sailing in OS Upgrade

   There are some contingencies at hand

9. Links 25/04/2026: "Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down", More Restrictions Placed on Social Control Media

   Links for the day

10. Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part IV - Shutting Down My Existence

    Would anyone out there tolerate such messages sent from burner accounts?

11. Gemini Links 26/04/2026: Gemini Movie Database (or GeminiMDB) and Star Trek III

    Links for the day

12. Weeks Before Linux Removed Over 100,000 Lines of Code Due to Slop 'Bug Reports' Microsoft Paid 'Linux' Foundation to Advance Slop in the Name of 'Security'

    What can possible go wrong? Both for security and for stability.

13. Tracking Ages of People

    To stay "safe" tell us your age

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 25, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, April 25, 2026

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