Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 31, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Techrights Does Not Compete With LLM Slop, It Exposes the Bastards, Plagiarists and Scammers Who Do That

   People like Scam Altman, still facing a lawsuit from his own sister for sexual abuse against her

2. Slopwatch: Planet Ubuntu Became LLM Slop and Some People Fail to See the Immorality of Plagiarism

   it lessens the incentive for people to publish real articles

   New

3. The "AI" (Slop) Bubble Already Popped, But It's Not an Overnight Collapse

   where Microsoft put its money

4. No More Steven Astorino at IBM, Chatter About Weekly/Nonstop Layoffs at IBM

   What happened? Good luck guessing.

5. Looking at Corruption in Europe, Going Beyond the EPO

   Expect a new series to kick off very soon

6. Slopwatch: Security SPAM and LLM Slop for SEO and FUD Purposes, Perpetually Tarnishing the Perception of Linux and (Open)SSH Security

   A lot of this Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) comes from Microsoft and its LLMs

7. Links 30/05/2025: Google's LLM Slop Pushers Are Killing Journalism and Shira Perlmutter Fails to Stop Bribed Regime From Legalising Plagiarism (in "AI" Clothing)

   Links for the day

8. Links 30/05/2025: Offline Arts and "Threshold of Patience"

   Links for the day

9. Signing Off Serious Lies With a Statement of Truth is No Joking Matter

   It's not hard to see what's happening here

10. Links 30/05/2025: LLM Slop Already Ingests and Vomits Its Own Garbage, Facebook Exec Admits Copyrights a Concern Too

    Links for the day

11. Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Result in More Whistleblowers From Microsoft

    Microsoft's predatory pricing is further

12. EPO Poll: 68% Dissatisfied With Quality of Slop (Wrongly Framed as "AI") for Patent Classification

    Slop does not work, it's just falsely advertised with extra hype (funded by slop pushers that sponsor the major media)

13. Big Crowds Gather to Learn About Software Freedom From the Man Who Started GNU/Linux in 1983

    "It was a great success"

14. Microsoft Layoffs Again in Bay Area

    Microsoft relies on people's false belief that being "in LinkedIn" will get you a job; well, seems like even working inside LinkedIn really sucks and you lose the job

15. Gemini Links 30/05/2025: Fighting Against the Bad News, and Slop is Dehumanisation Disguised as "Intelligence"

    Links for the day

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 29, 2025

    IRC logs for Thursday, May 29, 2025

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