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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 15, 2026

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  1. IBM Stock Collapses and It's Only the Beginning
    Will GAFAM soon follow and will any executives be arrested for the accounting fraud insiders have long cautioned about?

    New

  2. Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni Becomes Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    Heshan's addition means that the FSF is growing after a solid financial year (best in years)
  3. Michael McMahon Explains Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    The real solution is a curb on botnets. A mitigation strategy, however, would involve going static.
  4. Matters of Public Safety
    "Police say Ann Widdecombe killed in 'targeted attack' as motive investigated"
  5. The Register MS and Its Promotional Microsoft Content
    It's not too hard to see what the business model of The Register MS is
  6. IBM: From $306 to $212 in 7 Days, IBM Won't Go Up More Than 50% to Where It Was at 'Peak Vapourware'
    There's a limit to how much or how long a company can fake its performance and its potential [...] Early this morning a few insiders ("traders") cashed in on their "pump-n-dump"
  7. Red Hat Staff Needs to Start Looking for the Next Job
    Workers can conveniently lie or deny it to themselves, but waves of PIPs ("silent layoffs") will sweep over more and more units or teams as the company runs out of money to play with
  8. IBM the Next Bear Stearns
    IBM cannot recover if all it has to show is vapourware
  9. I'll Be Extremely Difficult for Microsoft to Sell Any XBox Consoles Now
    Microsoft understands this
  10. How Software Freedom Would Benefit Everybody
    A society that denies control by greedy companies would do a disservice to monopolies and improve all services to citizens
  11. Links 14/07/2026: Harsh But Also Fair Criticism of Hey Hi (AI) Slop, 'Open' AI Shuts Down Its Own Products as Funds Run Out
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Old CD Binder and AWK
    Links for the day
  13. In Defence of Physical Tickets
    Tickets are not some "app" and not some "code" on some "screen"
  14. Microsoft Layoffs Not Limited to XBox (False Narrative in the Mainstream Media)
    Microsoft is becoming less relevant and workforce reductions won't end any time soon
  15. Links 14/07/2026: Plagiarism Spun as "Training", Zelensky Announces Leadership Shuffle
    Links for the day
  16. The Register MS Has Just Published "AI" Webspam That Mentions "AI" 54 Times. It Was Paid to Do This.
    Who pays for all this "AI" hype or "buzz"?
  17. Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Self-Advocacy Online; "The Internet Is Dead: How the Web Lost Its Human Soul"
    Links for the day
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 13, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, July 13, 2026
  20. Modern Technology Harms Women More Than Men (Because the 'Tech Bros' Who Dominate STEM Have a Poor View of Women)
    “Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.”
  21. Internet Relay Chat Trolls Are Not Expressing Opinions, They Are Saboteurs
    For the record
  22. Links 14/07/2026: "The Freedom of Information Act Is in Serious Trouble"; Irish Datacenters Use Up Almost 25% of Total Energy
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