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Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2026

Celebration on the Seine, 14 July

Updated This Past Day

  1. XBox Being Discontinued, Some Models of XBox Canceled, Not on Sale Anymore
    First some of the largest retailers quit stocking/selling XBox, now a 2TB model is axed
  2. Firehose of Spam (Fake News) From The Register MS Today
    This is how awful the state of news sites really is
  3. Natural Disasters and Personal Disasters
    Thank you, Om Malik, for the positive memories

    New

  4. Links 26/06/2026: SoftBank Forbids Mentioning That Slop is a Scam, "'We Need Courageous People' to Combat Greed and Corruption"
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 26/06/2026: "Negativity of Reddit" and "Moving Blog to Gemini"
    Links for the day
  6. Same MIT Site That Fabricated the Fake News for IBM is Still Being Paid to Produce Fake "Reports" That Prop Up a Ponzi Scheme
    If this is the media we deserve as a society and believe keeps us informed, then we are all doomed
  7. 'Social' Slop: The Social Control Media and Slop Crises Are Converging
    Social Control Media and slop may have a shared fate. People will shun them both.
  8. Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Speaks Out Against Campinos and Informs the Chairman of the EPO Administrative Council
    Does Mr. Kratochvíl pay any attention at all?
  9. 'António the Pretender' Campinos is Digging His Own Grave With Grotesque Lobbying Intended to Undermine Democracy in Europe's Second-Largest Institution
    One way or another, the EPO will never be the same again
  10. The Principle of "Do No Harm"
    "Do No Harm" is a common saying
  11. After Years of Bluewashing People Who Are Still Labelled "Red Hat" Suddenly 'Leave' (Might be PIPs), IBM in "Forever Layoffs" Loop
    Remember that Red Hat had mass layoffs this year
  12. Microsoft Staff Bracing for Impact Ahead of "Layoffs Lottery"
    some people start to assess who will get culled next
  13. Donald Trump and IBM's CEO: Twins Separated at Birth, Saturating the Media With False Reports About Things That Don't Exist
    Every "journalist" that went ahead with this fake news should be sacked on the spot for a rejection of fact-checking
  14. The Register MS Will Become Indistinguishable From Spamfarms at This Current Pace
    Follow the money...
  15. Microsoft Layoffs Have Already Begun in Its PR Department
    It is called Waggener Edstrom
  16. Techrights Community as Litigants in Person (LIPs)
    Unwittingly and due to circumstances we're had to step in to protect women abused by monstrous men who lack empathy
  17. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Rest and Recuperation on the Adriatic Coast
    The EPO President's connections with the Croatian SIPO date back to his days as head of the EU trademark agency EUIPO
  18. Slopfarms Becoming Scarce and Few (or Inactive)
    we'll try to refrain from even giving the remaining slopfarms any visibility
  19. The Register MS Promotes Things That Do Not Exist... for Money
    How much more ZTE spam will come out before 5PM?
  20. Links 26/06/2026: RIP, Om Malik, 1966-2026
    Links for the day
  21. Memory Leaks Suck
    Slop ('vibe') coding means lots of bad programs
  22. Gemini Links 25/06/2026: Life Philosophy and Misery
    Links for the day
  23. GAFAM Became a Mainstream Term, and Why Words Matter
    Conveying problems in useful terms [...] Impairing propaganda attempts (e.g. calling parrots "intelligence", back doors "confidential", and outsourcing "cloud") should be the first step
  24. European Patent Office (EPO) on Strike Today, Next Week Another Historic Week
    If you live in Europe, contact your delegates today
  25. FSF FreeJS Project (Part of the GNU Project's Goals) Advanced Further in 2026
    They're moving to reduce dependence on anything to do with Microsoft
  26. SLAPP Censorship - Part 119 Out of 200: Our Suggestions to Our Politicians and Heads of State
    coverage about SLAPPs and related matters
  27. Microsoft Already Closing Down Studios, According to Some Publishers
    It is being compared to what happened in Intel
  28. IBM PIP Stories Told in Public, Fake IBM News (Fabricated Claims) Drown Media Sites
    IBM is seeding fake news to help justify the bailout
  29. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  30. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 25, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, June 25, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-06-20 to 2026-06-26
    5411 /irc.shtml
    3652 /index.shtml
    3188 /browse/latest.shtml
    2801 /browse/index.shtml
    1373 /n/2026/02/13/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_February_12_2026.shtml
    1366 /o/2016/12/16/new-linux-mint-releases-2/index.shtml
    1342 /n/2026/02/12/Microsoft_Slop_CEO_Speaks_of_Layoffs.shtml
    1322 /n/2026/02/12/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1294 /o/2023/04/05/easyos-5-2-1/index.shtml
    1272 /o/2017/05/09/coreboot-openstack-summit/index.shtml
    1267 /n/2026/02/12/Windows_Has_Become_Increasingly_Irrelevant.shtml
    1226 /n/2026/02/10/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1208 /n/2025/01/07/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1126 /about.shtml
    1091 /n/2026/06/23/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
    1051 /n/2026/06/22/Microsoft_Can_t_Even_Wait_Until_July_Shutdowns_and_Layoffs_Alre.shtml
    1004 /n/2026/06/21/5_Years_After_Release_of_Vista_11_Not_Even_One_in_5_People_Use_.shtml
    1003 /n/2026/06/22/A_Lifetime_of_Whistleblowing.shtml
    1000 /n/2026/06/23/After_IBM_s_Shares_Collapsed_the_CEO_is_Trying_to_Quantum_Trick.shtml
    945 /n/2026/06/20/2026_is_a_Year_of_Strikes_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO.shtml
    945 /n/2026/06/24/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_117_Out_of_200_Libel_Tourism_or_Defamatio.shtml
    932 /intro.shtml
    898 /n/2026/06/23/State_of_the_GNU_Linux_Desktop_and_Laptop.shtml
    872 /n/2026/06/23/Greece_Ought_to_Curb_the_Threat_of_Social_Control_Media.shtml
    843 /n/2026/06/23/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_115_Out_of_200_Spending_the_Next_Decade_W.shtml
    841 /n/2026/06/23/The_Cyber_Show_on_Starmer_and_Software_Freedom.shtml
    836 /n/2026/06/23/The_XBox_Narrative_Distracts_From_Destructive_Cuts_Across_the_W.shtml
    832 /n/2026/06/22/The_Aim_is_Not_Fame.shtml
    830 /n/2026/06/23/Microsoft_s_Stock_Fell_Nearly_200_But_the_Real_Problems_Are_Jus.shtml

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