Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 31, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM: The B Turns From "Business" to "Bailouts" to "Buybacks" ("IBM is the Next Intel")

   Trying to shore up the falling share price/stocks while veteran workers and Vice President (with high salaries) are cut off

   New

2. IBM CEO Can Become a Billionaire by Laying Off Tens of Thousands of Workers (or Buying Companies Using Borrowed Money, Only to Lay off Thousands in Them)

   Like he did Confluent recently

3. Reminder That Linuxiac is a Slopfarm or Hybrid of Bobby and His LLMs

   LLM fetishist that claims to cover Linux

4. BetaNews is Still Publishing Fake Articles, Sometimes Fake News, or LLM Slop Disguised as 'Journalism'

   Slop isn't yet a thing of the past, but hopefully we'll get close to that by the end of this year

5. Gemini Links 30/05/2026: Writer's Block, Evil GAFAM (Google), and Scepticism of Slop

   Links for the day

6. Links 30/05/2026: Fairphone 6, China’s Rise in Drug Development, Slop Wastes Money Without Delivering Value

   Links for the day

7. Links 30/05/2026: Alarm Over Large Companies Cancelling Slop Contracts, Ozzy Osbourne Resurrection as Slop Draws Ire

   Links for the day

8. Red Hat Exodus or RAs (or PIPs) in 2026 Not Limited to China, IBM is Doing Well at Hiding Layoffs

   All we need to know is, does IBM hand out lots of PIPs?

9. SLAPP Censorship - Part 92 Out of 200: A Spouse Cannot be Turned "On" and "Off" Like a Faucet

   Today's part will be very short because we keep the parts shorter in weekends and summer is officially around the corner (June on Monday)

10. The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article That Mentions "AI" 23 Times. "Sponsored by Arm." It Does This Every Day.

    A lot of the time we see this term everywhere in "the news" simply because slop pushers are paying for it

11. SQLite Under DDoS Attack by Slop Reports or Fake 'Bugs' (Just Like cURL and Many Other Projects)

    Even Linus Torvalds is starting to talk about this

12. Links 30/05/2026: More GAFAM (Amazon) Mass Layoffs, Peter Schiff Warns of Trillion-Dollar Slop Bubble Waiting to Implode

    Links for the day

13. Slop is Plagiarism

    Trillions of dollars down the drain, invested in a dud

14. Gemini Links 30/05/2026: Rehabilitation and Taming Emacs Cache and Temporary Files

    Links for the day

15. Richard Stallman (RMS) Talks and Secure Transmission of Private Communications in Formats Everybody Can Access With Free Software

    Maybe the FSF should step up a bit the campaign to use Free software to communicate with one another

16. General Consultative Committee (GCC) Discusses Working Conditions of Employees of the European Patent Office (EPO)

    On the agenda: Salary Erosion Procedure, Breastfeeding Policy, New Amicale Framework, Public Holidays 2027

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Friday, May 29, 2026

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