Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Using a Popular Ponzi Scheme to Sell Expensive Hardware Mislabelled as "Hey Hi" (AI)

   Selling shovels in an age of "gold rush"

2. Search Engine-Optimised (SEO) Googlebombs Target "Linux", "Ubuntu", and "RISC-V", Still Composed by Bots

   the way to defeat LLM slop (trash) is to call out serial sloppers or "repeat plagiarists"

3. Unix Men (or UnixMen) Has Turned Into LLM Slop With Embedded Linkspam, Piggybacking "Linux" for SEO

   Welcome to 2025 and the "new" Web

4. Social Control Media and 'Linux' Foundation Accelerate the Death of the Web

   Social Control Media is basically a dying business

5. Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles')

   This LLM slop is a big problem both for Linux and for Google

   New

6. Links 10/01/2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Shrinking, "Not every user owns an iPhone"

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Linux Desktop Setup

   Links for the day

8. [Meme] Donald Trump Will Pay Microsoft Back

   bribery administration is 10 days away

9. statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Tripling in Share in 3 Years in Iran

   ChromeOS adoption is low, but then again, nobody buys a Chromebooks with the expectation of better privacy

10. Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) is Again Spamming or Googlebombing "Linux" and "Security" Using LLM Slop

    Guardian Digital is basically a dodgy company. Don't trust Guardian Digital with your security.

11. Links 10/01/2025: Disinformation Sold as "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and as "Social Media" Now Facing Growing Scrutiny

    Links for the day

12. Links 10/01/2025: Scam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her, Apple Faces Embargo

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 10/01/2025: Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface and Falling "in Love With the Small Web"

    Links for the day

14. Starting 2025 on a Strong Note

    we ought to find more time to produce our own stories

15. Entire News Sites Have Become Just the Output of Bots (or Chatbots Disguised as "Authors")

    the Web is screwed

16. Colombian Trends Help Explain Why Microsoft Rushes to Start the Year With Mass Layoffs (Before Some Staff is Even Back to Work!)

    No wonder there are mass layoffs (first of GAFAM) as early as week 1 of 2025

17. LLM Slop and Bot-Generated Marketing for the Linux Foundation and Its Openwashing

    Of course it's chaff

18. Microsoft Gives Money to Trump, Poor or Even Sluggish Adoption of "Hey Hi" (AI) Reported Amid Mass Layoffs

    Microsoft now uses its media moles to downplay layoffs and bribes

19. More IBM Layoffs (2025)

    IBM is being scattered away, yet the media barely covers it. It'll just happen "silently" over time.

20. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

21. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, January 09, 2025

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