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Today in Techrights

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Gemini Links 14/05/2026: Early Morning Practice and Number to Roman Numeral Converter: Links for the day
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Cybershow (UK) Shaping Up to be a Neat and Very Large Gemini Capsule: If only more platforms did the same, plenty of energy would be spared, "old" machines would be totally suitable (even with 20 tabs open), as we'd focus on substance, not bells and whistles
SLAPP Censorship - Part 76 Out of 200: The Problem With the United Kingdom Allowing Americans to File Lawsuits by Proxy (Relayed by "Hired Guns"): Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich
When Microsoft's LinkedIn Goes Offline All Your Fake Friends/Connections and Manufactured 'Status' Will be Gone: Many people quit social control media because they recognise it for what it truly is
Major Setback for IBM in the Courtroom, the Demolition of IBM is Proving Costly: Kyndryl is a sign of how IBM ("mother ship") is run and where IBM is heading
Links 14/05/2026: Willful Ignorance and Mass Layoffs at Microsoft: Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/05/2026: Rewatching V for Vendetta, JPEG XL, and Platform Migrations: Links for the day
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXII - What the Science Says About Cocaine in the Workplace (EPO President, Mr. Campinos, Please Take Note): What the science says
European Patent Office (EPO) President, Mr. Campinos, Ignoring Its Staff While Protecting His Friends: the President is covering up cocaine use while ignoring his own workers
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Links 13/05/2026: Sudan War Enters Fourth Year and Strait of Hormuz Leaves Safe Passage a Gamble: Links for the day
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Mainstream Media: Microsoft Says No Layoffs. Microsoft: OK, There Are Layoffs.: Where is Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw now?
IBM's Kyndryl Down Almost 20% in 5 Days, IBM Down 35% in About 6 Months, Further 'Staff Reductions' at Red Hat (Problems Paying Salaries!): Will this year's festivities be Krishna's last?
More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, Only Weeks After the "Buyout" Nonsense (Glorified Severance to Highest-Paid American Staff): Next up it is LinkedIn
IBM is in a Freefall, When Will IBM's CEO Fall on His Sword?: Since he controls the Board, is anyone in a position to fire him?
At GitLab, "AI" is "All India": It says "as much as 30%," but they also hire and it's clear what demography is targeted
Verified Accounts of Microsoft Offering 'Retirement' (Layoffs) to People in Their 40s, Over Two Decades Earlier Than Retirement Age: It's not even about performance, it's about age (or "cost" as well as location; they cheapen the labour)
Links 13/05/2026: Slop Turns Into 2008-Style Subprime Bubble, Mass Layoffs at Starbucks: Links for the day
They Don't Like the Layoffs, So They Are Rebranding Them: Layoffs are layoffs
IBM Downgraded as the Shares Sink to New Lows: The current strategy of IBM is financial engineering, wage reductions, and mass layoffs that the corporate media refuses to even write about
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IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 12, 2026: IRC logs for Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Gemini Links 13/05/2026: TUIs and Internet Radio: Links for the day
How the European Patent Office Became a Crime and Corruption Hub, One of Europe's Biggest: incomplete outline
Techrights at 19.5 (We Started in 2006, Days After the Microsoft/Novell Deal): When Novell bought Ximian (run by the "best friend" of Graveley) it brought trouble to all of us, not just to Novell
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SLAPP Censorship - Part 75 Out of 200: All True, All Verifiable, Unlike Garrett and Graveley Lying to at Least Three High Court Judges About What They Did: A lot of what I said a year ago not only turned out to be correct; it was moreover affirmed by Garrett after he had sworn on the Bible and put himself at risk to his liberty
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXI - EPO President Campinos Bribing to Buy His Seat, But Cautions Staff Against Bribery: This isn't a democratic institution
IBM Lost Nearly 33% in "Value" in 3 Months (Shares Down $100), But Nobody Held Accountable: This is a truly dysfunctional company
Gemini Links 12/05/2026: Spring Cleaning and New GemText Software: Links for the day
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IBM Falls to One-year Low: At one point or threshold does the Board (controlled by the CEO) sack the CEO?
Gemini Links 12/05/2026: On Astronomy and Stargazing, Coyote Time, and Freenom: Links for the day
Links 12/05/2026: Data Centres Destroying Neighbourhoods, "Care Workers Are Saying No to 24-Hour Workdays": Links for the day
Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in Erlangen, Germany (Next European Tour): Seems like a large room
Google "Hey Hi" (Slop) Having a Stroke, Thinks I am Married to the Grandmother of My Grandfather: Seriously!
If IBM Suddenly Vanished in the 1980s, There Would be Chaos. Not Anymore.: IBM's management has rendered IBM more irrelevant than ever before
Beehiiv and Substack Are Platform Lock-in (Similar to Vendor Lock-in), Don't Use Beehiiv and Substack (and the Likes of These): Proprietary platforms are a problem. Some people "get it" sooner than others.
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Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Are "Offers" (Like "Job Offers"), Culling Experienced and Highly-Paid Staff is "Softer Workforce-reduction Strategy": Media sites that play along with those lies don't do journalism, they're in the PR industry
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GitLab the Latest Company to Do Mass Layoffs and Use Slop as the Go-to Excuse (GitLab Users Should Worry Too): This round of layoffs (disguised as something else) has nothing to do with slop ("hey hi"). It's about commercial problems.
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Technology Not Meant to Last: A society apathetic towards declining production (or manufacturing) standards will end up ripped off
statCounter Cannot 'See' Chinese Operating Systems That Gain Many Millions of Users Per Month: There is no way for statCounter to recognise or show the market share of HarmonyOS
SLAPP Censorship - Part 74 Out of 200: The Basis of My Lawsuit Against Alex Graveley, Who Helps Garrett Stack the Docket in Another Continent: claim against the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
Update on Slop About "Linux": "Linux" is a term many people are interested it, so it's not shocking that slopfarms target it
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IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 11, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, May 11, 2026
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