Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. WordPress Becoming What We Feared It Would Become

   WordPress and other such bloatware (WordPress used to be fast and light) are moving in the same trajectory that GAFAM leads

2. Call for European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowers

   The European Patent Organisation (EPO) might not reform the Office

3. Sirius Open Source's Latest Report: Fake (False) Number of Staff, Almost No Money in the Bank, Overdraft, and Growing Debt (About £100,000 More Borrowed)

   massive (and still growing) debt

   New

4. Getting Skyped: Closure of Studios Microsoft Bought

   wait till July and the mass layoffs outside XBox

5. Several Waves of Red Hat Layoffs This Year, Is This Still Going on Under IBM?

   The PIPs and NDAs hard to get a clear picture

6. Sabine Hossenfelder Versus IBM Scamming Shareholders

   IBM has become a garage of BS

7. Some XBox Layoffs Underway, At Least Five Studios to be Shut Down

   Insiders are in a state of panic

8. Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music Theory, Addiction, Clown Computing

   Links for the day

9. Links 30/06/2026: France Recorded 1,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave, Slop Replaced by Human Staff

   Links for the day

10. People Given the Totally Wrong Idea That "Secure Boot" is About Security (It's the Opposite, It's About Handing Control Over to NSA/Microsoft)

    "Secure Boot" with capital "B" is conflating compromise with security.

11. Today The Register MS is Publishing Fake Articles About "AI", 100% of All "Content"

    Maybe the media is dying because it is selling its soul [...] The Register MS has no standard

12. America Has Cost Europe Too Much

    Countries ought to be controlling all their own systems

13. GAFAM Debt Will Surge, in July We'll Know by How Much

    Do not fall for slop or sloppy narratives

14. Too Many "Marketers on the Payroll" at IBM, Selling Impossible Products That Cannot be Delivered or Will Never Deliver

    IBM is rotting away

15. Media Says Microsoft's (XBox) Layoffs May be Record-Breaking

    think somewhere in the range of ~5000 for gaming/XBox alone

16. Links 30/06/2026: What's Wrong With EU Age Verification, RSA Keys with Many Zeros

    Links for the day

17. This is Not a Security, This is a Circus

    Security does not mean "asked Microsoft for permission"

18. Communities Need Strong Leadership, Not Dictators Like IBM

    Leadership in Free software is not ownership [...] Fedora will only last as long as IBM can somehow make some money out of it or leverage it to attract sharecropping

19. Patents Are Not "Cash Cows"

    People who deliberately don't understand patents (or believe lies about them) will fail to understand how the world works (or does not work)

20. Sad Lives of People Who Think Women Are Just Sexual Toys (All They Have is Money)

    money is still a man-made concept and life is finite

21. SLAPP Censorship - Part 123 Out of 200: Why Violence Against Animals Matters

    Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) we'll begin telling stories about what happened last week

22. EPO Staff Union's (SUEPO) The Hague Committee, With Help of Lawyer, Challenges Lack of Rewards for Hard Work

    The EPO is not about granting valid patents anymore. The horse-trading corrupt officials just see the EPO as some thing that "prints money"

23. Massive EPO Demonstration Today

    It'll start in about 6 hours

24. More Layoffs in Microsoft's PR Department, Even Ahead of 'D-Day'

    Notice they are not even waiting for the official date (nor week)

25. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Photo-Ops Galore and Suspicions of Influence-Peddling

    coverage of the EPO's Croatian junket

26. Gemini Links 30/06/2026: Music and Broken Hearts

    Links for the day

27. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

28. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 29, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, June 29, 2026

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