Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Silent Layoffs, Cool-down, and Cool-off: How GAFAM and IBM Operate (the Law Doesn't Apply to Them)

   Laws? What laws?

   New

2. People Who Enforce the GPL Banned From Linux Foundation Board (After Bribes From Prolific GPL Violators), Now They're Banned From Giving Talks at Events

   about the "LF" ('Linux' Foundation)

3. Gemini Links 06/09/2026: The Slop Plagiarism 'Holy War' (Hype, Scam, Scheme), Burning CD-Rs, and Hardcopy Mono

   Links for the day

4. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part IV - Insufficient Resources in the Face of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) by Lawyers

   it's about 120KG

5. OpenStreetMap is the Future, Dictatorship is the Past

   OpenStreetMap helped us check maps for transport, various overlays with addresses, and there was 0% reliance on GAFAM or "Google" anything

6. How Strikes at the European Patent Office Are Seen by Striking Staff in Berlin, Germany

   We have some more EPO scandals to cover later this year and next year

7. Association for Computing Machinery Cites Techrights in Relation to GemText and Gemini Protocol

   published yesterday, Open Access

8. Links 06/09/2026: More XBox Trouble (Microsoft Unrest, Many Silent Layoffs This Month), John Duffy as Next USPTO General Counsel

   Links for the day

9. Gemini Links 06/09/2026: Avoiding 'Smart' 'Phones' and Setting up Gemini for the First Time

   Links for the day

10. Links 06/09/2026: Sabotage by Slop and "What Happens If 'Open' 'AI' Dies?"

    Links for the day

11. How Back Doors Became the 'Normal' or 'Norm'

    "We also allowed a lethal monoculture to fester"

12. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part III - The SRA is Vastly Worse Than Brits Realise, We Have a "Wild West" in London

    In the next part we'll begin looking at correspondence with the SRA

13. SRA and Manslaughter: How the SRA Contributed to Agony in Proprietary Software Scandals With Clear Misuse of "Without Prejudice"

    Trying to prevent the public from finding out the criminal stuff that went on, resulting in many deaths

14. Canonical (or Ubuntu) Rejecting IRC Isn't the Widespread Trend

    Internet Relay Chat (IRC) adoption still growing by some yardsticks

15. SLAPP Censorship - Part 173 Out of 200: Two Years

    It was exactly 2 years ago that we filed lawsuits against Garrett

16. Linux of America

    We could not help but notice GNU/Linux in North America yesterday

17. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

18. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 05, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, September 05, 2026

19. Gemini Links 06/09/2026: Internet Limiting (Limited Time Allotted) and Solar MiniServer

    Links for the day

20. Eight Months of Strikes in EPO, Organised by the Staff Union (SUEPO) Also in Berlin

    In Berlin, only one member of staff voted against the action plan

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