Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. It's Friday Night Again, So Microsoft is Again Shelving (Under Weekend Lull) Nightmare News for XBox Staff

   It did the same thing when the chiefs of XBox got canned

2. Censorship of Information Unflattering to IBM (or GAFAM)

   Years ago we gave a platform to a censored Microsoft whistleblower

3. Silent Layoffs at Microsoft in 2026

   Time will tell is there are investigative journalists out there who will quit parroting Microsoft (e.g. false layoff figures) and relying on LLMs controlled by Microsoft to spew out false "facts" for them

4. SLAPP Censorship - Part 91 Out of 200: Legal Aid in Support of Freedom of the Press and British Women (Attacked by Americans)

   bolstered by prominent counsels

5. Codecs and Software Patents - Part XII - GNU's Web Site Will Soon Have Many Recent Talks by Chief GNUisance Richard Stallman (RMS)

   GNU videos being transcoded or converted into AV1

6. The Fall of Slop (Even Microsoft Admits There's a Problem)

   If Microsoft admits that slop is too expensive and is for "entertainment purposes" because it cannot be relied upon, why would anyone other than the pushers and profiteers still insist that slop bears potential?

   New

7. Links 29/05/2026: "Spyware Economy" and Cuba's Energy Crisis

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 29/05/2026: Rap Rant and LLMs Criticised

   Links for the day

9. Akira Urushibata on Misleading Numbers From Anthropic's Project Glasswing (False Marketing by FUD Tactics)

   Posted yesterday and approved a short while ago

10. [Video] Richard Stallman's Rapperswil (Switzerland) Talk Online

    accessible without proprietary software

11. Trusting Trust is an Old Issue, Predating Rust and LLM Slop by Over Half a Century

    Microsoft Lunduke wants to make a case against Rust and slop (LLMs), but the issues he addresses aren't exactly new or unique

12. California Should Have Abandoned So-called 'Age‑Verification Laws', Not Make Exemptions (for Now)

    This has nothing to do with 1) children 2) safety 3) safety of children

13. Links 29/05/2026: Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Feels So Broken, American Pope on Defederation

    Links for the day

14. Techrights Does Not Censor Information About IBM, It Platforms and Retains Suppressed Voices From Inside IBM

    They don't like it when people criticise the management [...] panic attacks mentioned

15. Bob (Robert) Cringely Devoted Three Years of His Life Trying to Profit From LLM Slop and Now He Sounds Off, It's Just Not Working and It Can Crash the Economy Soon

    "The labs raising money at valuations with too many zeros are happy"

16. Techrights After About 60,000 Articles in 20 Years

    Sites fail if they don't offer anything new or if they wrongly believe that adopting slop to parrot other sites will give them exposure

17. Organised Plunder or Robbery: GAFAM and Hardware Companies Rely on Media Bribery to Perpetuate False Narratives and to "Drive Sales" (and Drive Prices Upwards)

    The price-fixing seems plausible and, if so, we need to demand action

18. Linux Foundation Destroys the Identity and History of Linux

    Groklaw's PJ was thorn on the side of LF sponsors

19. The Problem of Microsoft Crimes

    Opposing crime isn't "hatred"

20. Red Hat Will Die Inside a Dying IBM

    IBM isn't where Red Hat came to thrive but where it came to die

21. Very Large Strike at the European Patent Office Today, "Production" Sank a Huge Deal

    At this pace, we might be looking at tens of thousands fewer European Patents being granted this year

22. Gemini Links 29/05/2026: Leadership and Religion, the Board Game (Second Edition)

    Links for the day

23. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

24. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 28, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 28, 2026

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