UPC Fake News Watch (and Tough Reality): Same Familiar Talking Points and Talking Heads
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
Summary: We take stock of the most recent propaganda from Team UPC; notice how there's not even one single case of objective journalism on the matter (we've searched and tracked this very closely), it's just a bunch of law firms (patent litigation profiteers) and their operatives -- in sites like JUVE -- quoting them
Recent Techrights' Posts
- GAFAM is Drowning in Debt, GAFAM is Clearly Not Sustainable Anymore (It Runs on Borrowed Money and Bailouts)
- The war and surrender in Iran will deepen the debt; we'll see the GAFAM reports in late July
- Microsoft at 50 Follows the General Trajectory of Skype
- How many years does Microsoft have left before payroll becomes impossible?
- Cybersecurity Does Not Mean Asking Microsoft for Permission to Boot
- There were very good and timely reasons to speak about the matter, including impending antitrust complaints against Microsoft
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- Chad's Move to GNU/Linux or the Point of Exceeding 5% "Market Share"
- experienced centuries of being colonised
- Gemini Links 21/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Paying With Cash, and "More on Withered Technology"
- Links for the day
- GAFAM Was Never an Ally to Europe
- Only 1 in 10 Europeans see US as an ally — study [...] military providers in "tech" clothing cannot be trusted
- GitHub, LinkedIn, and XBox Will Finish Like Skype (Sustainability Crisis)
- Skype should become a verb. When Microsoft 'Skypes' something it means it basically shuts it down with some temporal excuse/s.
- Drowning in Garbage: AUR Shows That Too Much Low-Quality Software (Including Slop) is Bad for Everybody
- What happened in AUR had happened elsewhere before and will happen again in the future
- Links 21/06/2026: EU on Patented (Monopolised) Crops, Microsoft Software "Narcs on You to Your Boss"
- Links for the day
- A Year After a Microsofter Took Over The Register MS It is Effectively a Content Farm With News as a 'Side Dish'
- This is not journalism, this is spam
- IBM Pays the Media and Cons Some 'Journalists' Into Participating in "Quantum" Spam
- "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
- You Don't Need an 'App' for Your Birdhouse (Slopfondlers Come for Birds)
- That they sell those things as "AI" really says a lot about how dishonest slopfondlers really are
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 113 Out of 200: The United Kingdom is Not Turkey
- Turkey is ranked almost worst in the Western World for press freedom
- Links 21/06/2026: Bots from Alibaba Do Harm and Many Xbox Games Are Being Cancelled
- Links for the day
- 5 Years After Release of Vista 11 Not Even One in 5 People Use It (in the US)
- It doesn't look like Vista 11 will ever be adopted like prior versions and announcing a Vista 12 will mostly upset companies/organisations that only recently "upgraded" to 11
- Gemini Links 21/06/2026: Boca Raton, Perfect Summer Day, and LLM Doing Things Poorly
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 20, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, June 20, 2026
- Microsoft Insiders - Not Limited to XBox - Expect a 'Bloodbath' (Their Own Word)
- This isn't limited to XBox
- Reports of "PIP" as Means of Mass Layoffs at IBM This Year
- some insights into the PIPs
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 112 Out of 200: Strangles Women, Then Refuses to Even Attend Any of His Own Hearings About It
- It is meanwhile very apparent that Brett Wilson LLP is becoming a "mench sphere"
- Gemini Links 20/06/2026: "There Was Never Supposed to Be a Camera" and "What Is A Programming Language"?
- Links for the day
- Geminispace Reaches Its 8th Year, Today It Has Turned 7
- Gemini Protocol 'went live' 7 years ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic
- Links 20/06/2026: "Full Page Paralysis" and "Hopes For Xbox’s Future Might Be Over Before It Even Begins"
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes "at a Scale not Seen Since Battistelli", European Patent Grants Down by Over 25% in Past 3 Months
- The actions are effective
- Real Security Elusive, Microsoft Layoffs to Coincide With Certificate Apocalypse
- July 1
- Links 20/06/2026: Microsoft's "Year of Shame" and "Feed the Writers"
- Links for the day
- 2026 is a Year of Strikes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- As it stands at the moment, to many people the EPO represents crime, not law
- Web Browsers Are Technically Bloatware (No Matter What Runs in Them)
- Don't make it a society that shames people into using a Web browser where none should be needed
- Fedora Has Changed a Lot Since I Last Used It (IBM Dominates Almost Everything, IBM Agenda Displaces Community Goals)
- "It is effectively 100% run by Red Hat/IBM employed people... even when they are community-elected representatives."
- Andy (Cyber Show) on His Teacher Who "Squeezed Every Last Drop Out of Life, With Gratitude, Humility, Generosity and Mettle"
- Some call them "eccentric" and are dismissive about what they have to offer
- Only 1.5% Oppose the European Patent Office's (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Until 2027
- Among those polled/surveyed (in a ballot)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, June 19, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, June 19, 2026
- Gopher/Gemini Links 20/06/2026: Slop With Tcl/Tk and Nokia 770 Perishes
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 111 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley (the Latter Arrested for Strangling Women) Keep Ousting Their Collaboration in Litigation, Lawfare in a Foreign Continent
- it's not law, it's just warfare disguised as "law"
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Lobbying in Lisbon...
- reappointment campaign lobbying has not been restricted to the "home front" in Portugal
- Slop Making Its Way Into Terms Where It Does Not Belong
- Hopefully by year's end Google News can successfully cull (and deprive of traffic) almost all slopfarms
- Links 19/06/2026: Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures in Europe, "World Cup of Internet Resilience"
- Links for the day
- Links 19/06/2026: Salesforce Data Thefts and GAFAM's Conspiracy Theories That Data Center Opposition is a Foreign Plot
- Links for the day
- Links 19/06/2026: The Retweeting Class and Data Centres as National Security Risk
- Links for the day
- Don't Attack the Wives (or Spouses) of Pundits/Activists/Journalists
- We will be writing several series about this in the future
- Society Will Only Improve Owing to People Who Push Boundaries
- Push boundaries with ideas and facts, not with forbidden language
- Internet Relay Chat (Shorthand IRC) is Still Growing
- Contrariwise, social control media is waning
- The Register MS Published a New Page With "AI" 21 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.
- The former editor of the The Register MS admitted to me (directly) that he knew all this "AI" stuff was stupid hype
- Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
- Those ludicrous ads (disguised as rankings) from WSJ deserve scorn and ridicule
- The XBox Story is Still Fast-Developing, the Layoffs Are Confirmed to be Happening Already (Mid-June), Just Not "Officially"
- Workers have Microsoft have long braced for what is happening this summer and will accelerate further in two weeks' time
- Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
- "2026 Best Companies for the Future"?
- To GNU, AV2 Adoption May be a Year If Not Years Away
- The leap between versions means that there is fertile ground for incompatibilities
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, June 18, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, June 18, 2026
- Gemini Links 19/06/2026: "Born and Raised by the Internet", Fifteen Years in Gopher
- Links for the day
