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1 readyMicrosoft XBox is Having Its 1990s Apple Moment (Near Bankruptcy), Says Respected Insider (updated)

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2 readyOECD Carries Water for Microsoft, Targets Schools and Children With Slop Agenda (updated)

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3 readyLinks 16/06/2026: UK to Restrict Access to Social Control Media; The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones (updated)

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4 readyMicrosoft May Already Be Shutting Down More Gaming Studios (updated)

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5 readyThis Morning The Register MS Published Page With "AI" 42 Times in It. It Was Paid SPAM.

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6 readyMicrosoft "Xbox braces for sweeping studio closures before June 30."

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7 readyIn Africa's Largest Nation Windows Has Fallen From 100% to a Lot Less, Now All-Time Lows

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8 readyRichard Stallman's Talk Due in One Hour, Here's What People Say

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9 readySLAPP Censorship - Part 108 Out of 200: Moving On and Moving Up

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10 readyWhy We Call Him Dr. Stallman

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11 readyUnited States of America: GNU/Linux Hovering Around 5% (It Started There)

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12 readyMicrosoft Promises Made to be Broken

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13 readyIBM Down $61 in Two Weeks, The Lies About Quantum Computers Didn't Last Long

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14 readyYou Probably Don't Want to "Go Viral" in Toxic Social Control Media

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15 readyNew 'Article' in The Register MS Has Mentioned "AI" 44 Times. The Register MS Got Paid to Publish It.

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16 ready18-Year Anniversary of Our IRC Community

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17 readyMicrosoft - Like IBM - is Leaving a Legacy is Emptied/Abandoned Buildings

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18 readyRichard Stallman's (RMS) Speaking Tour in Europe Coincides With Abandonment of Microsoft Windows

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19 readyGemini Links 16/06/2026: Nazi Law of Mental Abuse and Lewis Aburrow's 3D-Printed Slider

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20 readyLinks 16/06/2026: Windows TCO and Fedora Finding Serious 20-Year-Old Holes in Microsoft Outlook

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21 readyEuropean Patent Office (EPO) Series: An Advisor to the President

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22 readyTwo Weeks Ahead of July Three Studios Microsoft Plans to Shut Down Already Named

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23 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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24 readyIRC Proceedings: Monday, June 15, 2026

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25 readyIBM Works for Microsoft

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26 readyEuropean Patent Office (EPO) Series: The EPO's Brussels Liaison Officer

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27 readyEuropean Patent Office (EPO) Receiving Section (RS) and Elimination of Many Roles

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28 readyMicrosoft's XBox is Disintegrating, Executives Are Quitting

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29 readyGemini Links 15/06/2026: Slop Code Benchmarked, Wireguard on NixOS and Guix

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30 readyLinks 15/06/2026: More Own Goals for the Slop Industry, Palantir Trouble in UK

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31 readyApple Wants Everybody to Forget About "Vision Pro" Because It Was a Giant Flop

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32 readyThe Cyber Show is Adopting 'Book Form' (or Long Form Publications)

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33 readyRichard Stallman's Software Freedom/Digital Sovereignty Tour in Europe

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34 readyEstimates of Scale of Microsoft Layoffs, Will Likely Happen "in Batches"

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35 readyIBM Has Put Red Hat on a Poor Diet of Slop, Now Fedora and Red Hat Suffocate or Choke on It

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36 readyEstimates of Microsoft Layoffs: 3,000 Staff to be Culled Just in Gaming, How Many in Other Divisions?

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37 readyStraw Man Arguments Against Rust

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38 readyTesla Debt Rose Sharply, Sales Declined, Wall Street's Claim of Tesla "Value" is Merely a Fairytale (and Not Just Tesla)

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39 readyStop Calling Losses "Investment"

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40 readyFor Justice We Need More Speech, Not Less Speech

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41 readySLAPP Censorship - Part 107 Out of 200: Keeping Law Accessible to Everybody

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42 readyLinks 15/06/2026: Slop "Beg Bounties", Wall Street Fakes 'Worth', and Arkansans Saved PBS

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43 readyGemini Links 15/06/2026: Dating Oaks, Simulation, and Theremin

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44 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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45 readyIRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 14, 2026

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46 readyLinks 14/06/2026: Energy Cost and Reality Strikes at Heart of Slop Bubble, 75 Data Center Build-outs "Successfully Blocked"

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47 readyMicrosoft CEO Says XBox is Not a Sustainable Business

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48 readyMElon (MUSK, Elon) is a Trillionaire Like Penguins Are Mammals

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49 readyUnlikely Heroes

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50 readyBruce Schneier Was Probably Wrong About Slop

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51 readySLAPP Censorship - Part 106 Out of 200: 100 Kilograms of Legal Papers

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52 readyLinks 14/06/2026: More Google Layoffs, Wall Street Deems Companies That Lose Money "Worth" Trillions

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53 readyGemini Links 14/06/2026: "The Universe is a Hologram", "Matrix Brain Download", and "Happy 0th Year"

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54 readyEuropean Patent Office (EPO) Series: Battistelli's "Baltic Crusader"

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55 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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56 readyIRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 13, 2026

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