Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 16, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Microsoft May Already Be Shutting Down More Gaming Studios

   the writings are on the wall: XBox is in disarray.

   New

2. IBM Works for Microsoft

   Hours ago in IBM.com

3. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO's Brussels Liaison Officer

   It would appear that in January 2020, Pellegrino was induced by Campinos to jump ship from the EUIPO and take up his current position as Brussels Liaison Officer for the EPO

4. European Patent Office (EPO) Receiving Section (RS) and Elimination of Many Roles

   Open letter to Mr Rowan (VP1) and Mr Aledo Lopez (COO) [...] Does the EU leadership intend to tolerate this?

5. Microsoft's XBox is Disintegrating, Executives Are Quitting

   We're basically witnessing the slow-motion "end of XBox"

6. Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Slop Code Benchmarked, Wireguard on NixOS and Guix

   Links for the day

7. Links 15/06/2026: More Own Goals for the Slop Industry, Palantir Trouble in UK

   Links for the day

8. Apple Wants Everybody to Forget About "Vision Pro" Because It Was a Giant Flop

   worthless gadgets with no obvious use case/s

9. The Cyber Show is Adopting 'Book Form' (or Long Form Publications)

   Andy and Helen nowadays invest more time in making their site faster

10. Richard Stallman's Software Freedom/Digital Sovereignty Tour in Europe

    As things stand at present, the vast majority of people have their interactions controlled/policed by GAFAM

11. Estimates of Scale of Microsoft Layoffs, Will Likely Happen "in Batches"

    "Heard 10 to 15 percent eventually but idk date."

12. IBM Has Put Red Hat on a Poor Diet of Slop, Now Fedora and Red Hat Suffocate or Choke on It

    Over the weekend we saw more people leaving the company

13. Estimates of Microsoft Layoffs: 3,000 Staff to be Culled Just in Gaming, How Many in Other Divisions?

    Now the XBox division has its own "fall guy", but it is a woman

14. Straw Man Arguments Against Rust

    If anything, it teaches the importance of auditing packages

15. Tesla Debt Rose Sharply, Sales Declined, Wall Street's Claim of Tesla "Value" is Merely a Fairytale (and Not Just Tesla)

    We would gladly sell land on Mars to anyone who honestly believes a company that loses money is somehow "worth" trillions in Wall Street

16. Stop Calling Losses "Investment"

    XBox is losing money, it is a sinkhole

17. For Justice We Need More Speech, Not Less Speech

    When you attack something you are just giving that something a bigger platform

18. SLAPP Censorship - Part 107 Out of 200: Keeping Law Accessible to Everybody

    We'll have stories related to this in the future

19. Links 15/06/2026: Slop "Beg Bounties", Wall Street Fakes 'Worth', and Arkansans Saved PBS

    Links for the day

20. Gemini Links 15/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Simulation, and Theremin

    Links for the day

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 14, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, June 14, 2026

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