Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2025,
updated Feb 21, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. gbhackers.com is Not Hackers, It's LLM Slop Outputs (Fake 'Articles') That Attack 'True Hackers'

   A site called linuxsecurity.com keeps doing this and now we see the slopfarm gbhackers.com doing the same

2. linuxsecurity.com Continues to Spread Lies or Machine-Generated FUD (Microsoft LLMs Likely the Source) About OpenSSH and Linux

   this LLM problem is global

3. People Who Came From Microsoft Demanding Removal of Articles About Them, About Microsoft, and About Microsoft GitHub is "Generous" (According to Them)

   Imagine choosing a law firm that borrows money in the same year just to avoid overdraft in the bank!

   New

4. Gemini Links 20/02/2025: Law of Warming and Cooling, Health, and Devlog

   Links for the day

5. Links 20/02/2025: Microsoft Infosys Layoffs and IRS Layoffs (Good News for Rich Tax Evaders)

   Links for the day

6. IBM Layoffs in Europe Already Happening or Underway (UK and Spain). They Try Not to Call These "Layoffs".

   "CIO" in particular was repeatedly mentioned lately, as was Consulting

7. Possibly a Third Round of Mass Layoffs at Microsoft in 2025 ("Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles"), Report Removed or Censored

   This is literally the top story for "microsoft layoffs" right now

8. Instead of 'DoS Protection' Cloudflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others)

   If you value the Web, you will avoid Cloudflare

9. Mixing Real With Fake in One 'Article' (by "Director of Content, Help Net Security")

   From what we can gather, he got machines to generate some slop for him

10. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

11. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 19, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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