Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Betanews Becoming a Slopfarm is "Betanews Growing Alongside You", According to Betanews

   Their first 'article' in over two weeks is 52% "AI-generated" (slop), 33% mixed (edited slop), 18% human-written, says an advanced scanner.

2. Double-Dipping the Docket for Microsoft Glory and Censorship of Microsoft Critics

   same lawyer, same barrister, all US, all Microsoft

   New

3. Links 17/06/2025: "The Grift Economy" and Kubernetes Does Proprietary

   Links for the day

4. Coffee Day and LLM Sloppers

   The LLM slop "bros" are a lot like fake-money bros; they lie to people, they boast that they lie to people, and they're generally bad people, BS artists in colloquial terms

5. TheLayoff Censorship of IBM Threads Has Gone Truly Ludicrous

   we do not argue that TheLayoff should not cull LLM slop

6. More Stallmanites Added to FSF Board and Summer Fundraiser Commences

   There's some good news from the FSF

7. Gemini Links 17/06/2025: Consistency and Notes About NixOS

   Links for the day

8. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

9. IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 16, 2025

   IRC logs for Monday, June 16, 2025

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