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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 26, 2026

Exit light train, Tel Aviv, Israel

Updated This Past Day

  1. EPO Meeting Ran Out of Time to Discuss the Scabs ('Young Professionals')
    EPO staff representatives in The Hague meet a member of the 'cocaine cabinet'
  2. Julian Assange Ready to Talk More (After More Than a Decade of Arbitrary, Unjust Confinement)
    Two years ago, upon his release, his wife said he'd need some time off before properly or fully returning to the public eye
  3. A Microsoft Lunduke OS (LCOS) is Not Even in Top 100 in DisroWatch, Microsoft Lunduke Just Games the Numbers Like Linspire Did (and Got 'Banned' for It)
    Linspire used to send people to 'its' DisroWatch page to make the illusion of popularity
  4. Daniel Pocock Makes It Into Mainstream Media Again (Going After Racists)
    American bigots funding blatant and shameless racists here in the UK
  5. Another Woman (or Women) Has Just Run Away From Brett Wilson LLP (After Barely a Month!), the Hired Guns of Garrett and Graveley (Microsoft)
    They call this phenomenon "death spiral"
  6. SLAPP Censorship - Part 200 Out of 200: Will GNU Boot Undo the Technical Damage Caused by Microsoft and Garrett? (And Garrett's Litigation Allies From Microsoft)
    Today we publish the final part of this series
  7. Things Not to Measure in Quantity Alone
    More patents do not beget greater innovation

    New

  8. Longtime Symbol of Microsoft's XBox Franchise, Halo, Down to Barely 20 People
    The purge is huge, far bigger than submissive media cares to point out
  9. The Register MS Promotes Slop for Banned Companies That Put Chinese Back Doors in Things, "AI" Mentioned 37 Times in One Page!
    taking money from the undemocratic state and its surveillance outfits
  10. Microsoft Attacked European Courts and Jurists, Now Europe Dumps Microsoft
    This is because GNU/Linux is technically better, but the political factors contribute to that as well
  11. IEEE Tribute to Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf (Revolution OS Showing)
    Live shortly
  12. Winding Up Racists
    What happens next shall be interesting
  13. Links 25/09/2026: Selling Rogue, Defective Bots as "Agents" Results in PR Fiasco and Breaches; Russian 'Hybrid Attack' and "How Russia Evades Sanctions"
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 25/09/2026: Arvelie Calendar, 44net, Pebbles, and Building the Bagel Concert Finder
    Links for the day
  15. Large Wave of IBM PIPs, the RAs Wave Comes After 'Low-Hanging' Fruit (Families) Disposed of
    PIPs are the new RAs
  16. Links 25/09/2026: Carcinogen Atrazine Pollutes Americans' Bodies, "Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel", and Anger Over Data Centres Grows
    Links for the day
  17. Theory That Microsoft Cheapens Its Workforce to Push Workers Out on Their Own (Theory Advanced by Insider)
    people work longer hours for less, i.e. their hourly salary is decreasing
  18. Tackling Racism in the United Kingdom (Racism Funded by Americans) Using the Courts
    We'll talk about racism my wife and I experienced in the events leading up to litigation
  19. US Government Sites Can Now Totally Ignore Mozilla Firefox Users or Users of Firefox Derivatives
    Firefox, now at 1.1% in the US (based on American government sites), has sunken to the point of no return
  20. Even Microsoft Boosters Start to Doubt XBox Will Exist (It's Being Phased Out, Just Not "Officially")
    This is how to phase out a business unit without officially saying so (as it might alarm investors)
  21. Omarchy is Built on the Idea That Slop is Desirable (It's Not)
    They call bots and plagiarism "agents" and "training"
  22. IBM is Shrinking Very Fast (Silent, Unannounced Layoffs)
    IBM and Microsoft both avoid WARN notices by compelling staff to leave or silently removing them with some NDA
  23. In Some Parts of Microsoft 50% of All Staff Subjected to Layoffs, Media Pretends Only 0.1% of Staff Are Removed
    This really says a lot about the state of today's so-called 'media'
  24. SLAPP Censorship - Part 199 Out of 200: An American Burden on the British Legal System
    A year ago (October 2025) the head of media (Jointly in Charge of the Media and Communications List), the judge in the Garrett case, said that this case was a waste of the court's money
  25. EPO Management Wants Everything to be Done in Microsoft Spyware
    In reality, this management should be ousted for normalising cocaine at the Office
  26. Criminalising Opposition to Fraud
    slop causes social issues
  27. The Register MS Does Not Properly Flag Its SPAM About Slop
    Signs of desperation
  28. Gemini Links 25/09/2026: Ljubljana, Tanana River, and Curse of Slack
    Links for the day
  29. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  30. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 24, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, September 24, 2026
  31. Supporters of winding-up process staking claims against Reform UK Party (CR-2026-007405)
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  32. Winding-up petition leaked before service on Reform UK Party Limited / Nigel Farage
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    647 /n/2026/09/23/IBM_s_Anderon_Already_Smells_Like_a_Fraud_and_IBM_Insiders_Heck.shtml
    640 /n/2026/09/20/Linux_Kernel_Becoming_a_Slopfest_Part_5_Kernel_Dependency_on_Pl.shtml
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    633 /n/2026/09/23/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_196_Out_of_200_Sending_Someone_to_Our_Doo.shtml
    613 /n/2026/09/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_192_Out_of_200_The_Hired_Guns_of_Garrett_.shtml
    612 /n/2026/08/13/Links_13_08_2026_K_pop_Suicide_Due_to_Social_Control_Media_Lega.shtml
    607 /n/2026/09/23/Nearly_1_000_People_at_EPO_Met_to_Plan_Further_Strikes_and_Impe.shtml
    595 /n/2026/09/23/Gemini_Links_23_09_2026_Stuck_Gambling_Fury_Road_IPFS_and_More.shtml
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    594 /n/2026/09/23/IBM_Grapevine_Development_Outsourced_to_LLM_Slop_and_It_Results.shtml
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    569 /n/2026/09/23/Microsoft_Gives_Many_People_the_Booty_This_Week_Not_Counting_PI.shtml
    557 /n/2026/09/22/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_193_Out_of_200_Breaks_GNU_and_Linux_Tries.shtml
    555 /n/2026/09/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_191_Out_of_200_Garrett_Graveley_and_Lozza.shtml
    553 /n/2026/09/22/Things_Will_Only_Get_Better_as_We_Go_Backwards.shtml
    538 /n/2026/09/20/Links_20_09_2026_Amazon_Layoffs_Flock_Buyouts_Silent_Layoffs.shtml
    538 /n/2026/09/24/Winding_up_petition_served_on_Reform_UK_Party_Limited_Nigel_Far.shtml
    538 /n/2026/09/21/Gemini_Links_21_09_2026_Digital_Hoarder_GTD_Minimalism_vs_Digit.shtml
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