Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. It Has Cost $215,000 in Legal Costs to Sue IBM for Wrongful Termination

   IBM typically settles out of court and demands secrecy (to avoid anyone else benefiting from the very expensive outcome)

2. The PIPs or 'Voluntary Termination Offers' Help IBM Fake Its Situation

   "IBM is not a tech company"

   New

3. LG Lies to Cover Up Lies About Its Spying TVs (It Records and Transmits Conversations in Rooms)

   This is what a lot of "modern" technology is like

4. Oracle's Debt Continues to Soar (Increase of 60 Billion Dollars in 15 Months, Not Counting the Secret Debt, With Off-balance-sheet Debt Having "Grown Roughly Thirtyfold in Four Years")

   Oracle debt continues to grow

5. Apple's iOS and macOS Measured as Bigger Than Windows in the US, Linux-Based OSes at Almost 30%

   Expect the silent layoffs at Microsoft to continue at a rapid pace

6. Oracle, Like Microsoft, Drowns in Debt and Discards Tens of Thousands of Staff (Microsoft Does the Same More Discreetly)

   The main difference between Microsoft and Oracle is that the latter is honest about what's going on

7. Gemini Links 14/09/2026: First Android Phone, Leaving Sony, and Rant About Gemini-to-HTTP Proxy Providers

   Links for the day

8. Links 14/09/2026: "Scam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid" and Sweden Moving to the Right

   Links for the day

9. Vista 11 Flunked

   Microsoft cannot start a "Vista 12" campaign as it would only make matters worse

10. Microsoft Urgently Needs Distraction: There's No "Next XBox", But There's a New Boot Screen (Like 'Dark Mode', a Feature That Can be Implemented in Mere Minutes/Hours)

    Anything to distract from XBox fiasco

11. IBM Flying Away to Sweatshops (So Will Red Hat)

    Even on Sunday people post about 'leaving' IBM

12. RFID Ambitions Already Established by Widespread Skinnerbox Adoption

    A society that cannot maintain privacy for those who deserve it will not manage to assure dignity of citizens

13. SLAPP Censorship - Part 183 Out of 200: What Actually Happened Two Months Ago (Based on People Who Attended)

    It's dangerous to assert what happened in a hearing you did not attend (there was no video stream or recording, either)

14. Phil Harvey, an Editor-in-Chief in a B2B Site, Explains Why ChannelFutures (Connected to TechTarget) and Other Sites That Used to Cover Linux Deleted Many Articles

    Every old article in channelfutures is gone!

15. Software Freedom Day 2026 is 5 Days From Now, Fresh Reminder to Boycott Proprietary Software

    Let this be a timely reminder of why people should avoid proprietary software

16. Links 14/09/2026: Slop Hardly Used for Actual Work (Chatbots Are for Lonely People), Slop Bots (Scrapers, Plagiarism) "Are Thirsty for Power"

    Links for the day

17. Gemini Links 14/09/2026: Trip, Hiding, and OCR

    Links for the day

18. IBM PIPs Are Layoffs (RAs Come Later Even If You Satisfy the "Performance" and "Plan")

    Notice how "the media" almost never mentions silent layoffs, as if just because they're silent, there's nothing to investigate, nothing to see there

19. Slop Companies Engage in Plagiarising the Web, Now They Pay People to Contaminate the Web With Their Lies

    Remember that the lawfare against us is funded by slop salaries!

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 13, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, September 13, 2026

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