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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. The Week to Come
    Planning ahead
  2. LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online
    The very same companies that were supposed to maintain quality (again, not limited to Google with PageRank) are now actively participating in generating and spreading slop
  3. When They Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)?
    there's "no free lunch"
  4. Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean")
    Unlike systemd
  5. Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Microsoft Salespeople
    Something isn't right at The Register

    New

  6. We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents
    We can get back to focusing on what we wanted to focus on all along
  7. Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity)
    the latest articles in LinuxIac are real
  8. Links 27/07/2025: Political Affairs, Data Breaches, Attacks on Freedom of the Press
    Links for the day
  9. Gemini Links 27/07/2025: Hot in Japan and Terminal Escape Codes
    Links for the day
  10. Links 27/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs Coming, Science and Hardware News
    Links for the day
  11. Links 27/07/2025: FSF Hackathon and "Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man"
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 27/07/2025: DAW Mixer Chains and Simple Software
    Links for the day
  13. The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Microsoft Holes
    But the problem is holes, i.e. Microsoft making bad products; the problem is Microsoft
  14. Most Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft)
    It's not easy to tell where the site is based (we tried) because it's hiding behind ClownFlare and CrimeFlare hasn't been well lately
  15. "New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40)
    We have a lot more to say about LLM bots
  16. When Silence Says So Much
    Garrett, a 'secure' boot pusher, will need to defend himself in the UK High Court
  17. The Register in Trouble
    There is not much that can be done at this point
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 26, 2025
    IRC logs for Saturday, July 26, 2025
  20. Misinformation in Social Control Media
    Social control media passes around all sorts of tropes
  21. Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Names/Domains
    throwing bots at "Linux" to make some fake articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-07-21 to 2025-07-27
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    748 /n/2025/07/23/Misinformation_is_Not_Intelligence.shtml
    719 /n/2025/07/24/Links_24_07_2025_Storage_Tapes_Still_Kicking_Windows_TCO_on_Ste.shtml
    704 /n/2025/07/24/Informa_TechTarget_s_ITProToday_is_Becoming_a_Slopfarm_Generate.shtml
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    566 /n/2025/07/22/Links_22_07_2025_Blog_Restart_and_Microsoft_Clobbered_by_ToolSh.shtml
    550 /n/2025/07/22/Amazon_Web_Services_AWS_Has_Layoffs_and_Microsoft_Gaming_Entert.shtml
    531 /n/2025/07/25/Links_25_07_2025_NOAA_Cuts_Endangers_Lives_Europe_s_Self_Inflic.shtml
    522 /n/2025/07/12/Links_12_07_2025_Birdwatching_and_Fake_Misleading_Wall_Street_V.shtml
    483 /n/2025/07/23/Links_23_07_2025_Retreating_From_Transparency_on_Jeffrey_Epstei.shtml
    481 /n/2025/07/23/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Has_Gone_Silent.shtml
    478 /n/2025/07/24/New_US_Editor_for_The_Register_is_a_Microsoft_Booster.shtml
    474 /n/2025/07/23/Slop_Is_Not_Intelligence_and_It_Does_Not_Enhance_Productivity.shtml
    468 /n/2025/07/21/Computer_Science_is_Under_Attack_They_Want_Everyone_to_be_a_Con.shtml
    466 /n/2025/07/21/Fragmentation_of_Data.shtml

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