Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 23, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. IBM's Press Release About Results Mentions "AI" 10 Times, "Quantum" 4 Times

   Blah blah blah AI"

2. Things We Could Do More Than Half a Century Ago But Can No Longer Accomplish

   Newer is not always better

3. Linux Foundation an Enemy of the Planet, Proponent of Pollution and Global Heating

   "could the "polluters pay" model be extended to the computing environment and used to take on Microsoft and Microsofters?"

4. Not Everything Can be Automated

   not a new thing

   New

5. IBM in the Red After Bad Results (Shares Down in After Hours)

   Will the CEO step down, retire, of what else?

6. Gemini Links 22/07/2026: Fault Lines, the Dark Web and Beyond, and Why Substack is Awful

   Links for the day

7. Insult and Injury: Getting Banned, Not Just Sacked, by Microsoft

   A former insider spoke about this in public 5 hours ago

8. Links 22/07/2026: "Dumb Phones" Not Enough to Tackle Harmful Addition, "MPEG-4 Visual's Road to Being [Software] Patent-Free"

   Links for the day

9. Top secret: Cults inquiry submission concealed from public

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

10. An Hour Ahead of Alleged 'Results' (Amid Investigation Into Fraud) IBM Falls Back to New Lows

    Only cents away from a 52-week low

11. IBM Headed for Lowest "Value" in 2 Years

    In a nutshell, Krishna "can't keep it up" and IBM is now investigated for fraud

12. Investigation Progressing

    There is nothing "funny" about receiving mortal threats for merely reporting information in a civilised country

13. Anupa Ann Joseph & Debian defamation gang

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

14. State of the Invidious Project

    Never forget how hostile Google can be towards freedom

15. Prioritising the Safety of Women is the Best Approach to Foster Diversity in Technical Communities

    Debian was never "normative", but that does not mean Debian should have such low standards

16. IBM Will Report 'Results' Tonight (CET), It's Already Investigated for Securities Fraud

    "Five of the biggest US tech giants are carrying $1.65 trillion in debt that does not show up on their balance sheets"

17. Hardware Has Gotten a Lot Worse, Not Just Far More Expensive

    prices go up fast

18. Amid Claims of Microsoft Bing Layoffs It Seems Like Bing Cannot Even Hold on to Second Place

    Yandex is sometimes bigger than Bing

19. Wikileaks Does Not Publish New Material Anymore, But Wikileaks Still Changes the World

    Wikileaks has a legacy that will soon turn 20

20. Links 22/07/2026: Postal IRCs, PlayStation Kills Discs, Union Action Against Microsoft, "Judge Considers Tossing Databricks Patent Suit Under California anti-SLAPP Law"

    Links for the day

21. Same 'Journalists' Who Published Fake News for IBM (Pump and Dump) Now Write Puff Pieces About the Stock Falling

    the media is so compromised

22. They Called It "Social" and "Media", But It Turned Out to be Slop and Child Porn

    Why do any sane people still use social control media?

23. Age of consent: DebConf26 registered sex offender in Argentina?

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

24. European Patent Office (EPO) Series: In the Pole Position Despite a Dismal Track Record

    António Campinos is an old hand when it comes to such high-level institutional intrigue

25. Site a Bit Slower Due to Visitors' Load

    We'll try to work out better speeds

26. Gemini Links 22/07/2026: Emacs, Astrology Clock, Arduino, and Rogallo v1.0.0

    Links for the day

27. After Involvement by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) LibreTech and Quibble Gain More Participants

    RMS expressed gratitude for people who worked on Quibble and improved LibreJS after many years of inactivity

28. The Lessons From the Assange Saga

    This will not end well

29. Apple Will Increase Surveillance of Customers, Record Verbal Communications Under the Guise of "Hey Hi"

    Apple now drinks that same Kool-Aid

30. Dave Winer, Blogging Pioneer, Sells Out, Spews Out LLM Slop to Readers

    Another one bites the dust [...] Now it's a slopfarm of sorts

31. GNU/Linux OS in ComorOS

    Now, as in recent years or the last year, the GNU/Linux "signal" is growing significantly

32. Microsoft Redefines "Layoffs" to Give Smaller Tallies

    It's not just calling them "buyouts" or saying people are merely "leaving" or "retiring"

33. IBM is Not Done Destroying Red Hat, Wait Till October 1st 2026 (More Layoffs and Bluewashing)

    It's not bluewashing 'til it's 100% done

34. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

35. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 21, 2026

    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 21, 2026

36. "LF Sex", Nothing to Do With Linux

    a lot of explaining to do this week

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