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Others try to take it away

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 9 – Services Phased Out

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A United Tradition

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Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters

A game of money

Working With Fine Tools

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December 10th

Special day

news

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Corrupted Corporate Media is Spinning Massive Microsoft Layoffs as "Investment in AI" Instead of Evidence That "AI" Nonsense is Catastrophic
    Microsoft asking 30% of its staff to leave is a sign of bubble
  2. 100 Years of IBM Racism
    GAFAM is not about "diversity" or "equity" or whatever. It's a greedy, money-making venture, even if they appoint CEOs of colour
  3. Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press
    There's a price for criticising abuses

    New

  4. Project Glasswing and PHP2Shell vulnerability
    by Akira Urushibata
  5. Turning Point for the Slop Industrialists
    First, a lot of people who work on "hey hi" at Microsoft (no matter the buzzword or brand, e.g. "copilot") are impacted
  6. Links 28/10/2026: Slop Bubble Pops in China, Rocky Linux Creator Becomes Slopper, Openwashing by the Slop Pushers Explained
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Slop Plagiarism Considered a "Weapon", "Completely restored HTML interface to the Orbital Fox mailing list"
    Links for the day
  8. Links 28/10/2026: "Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down" and Robert Reich Says "Musk Wants Me Imprisoned"
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: Cold Outside Again and Maths
    Links for the day
  10. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
    It already has a history of breaking/bricking servers
  11. Racism at Microsoft
    Microsoft tribalism has an element to it aside from corporate allegiance
  12. Compelling Examiners at the European Patent Office to Fake "Growth" (in Patent Monopolies) Using Slop and Sloppy Processes
    The agenda of management is likely illegal and the methods likewise
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, October 27, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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