Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. LLM Slop is an Addiction One Can Quit

   Sites that crossed over to "the dark side" (slop) can still return, and even fully regain the trust lost by betraying people with 'botspew'.

2. BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany

   Journalist contact details

   New

3. Flagging or Labelling LLM Slop Meaningfully to Discourage the Practice

   We're still refining the annotation for better contrast

4. Techrights Site Search Pushed to 'Stable'

   we've just added it to the navigation menu and footer

5. Situation Publishing's DevClass (Sister Site of The Register MS, Run by MS Tim) Has Been Abandoned, Microsoft's MS Tim Now Interjects Anti-Linux Directly Into The Register MS

   Not only does this sell Microsoft; it's also googlebombing - as before - the real "maui" (or "MauiKit" in Linux).

6. Many IBM Workers to Become Unemployed a Few Weeks - Maybe Just Days - Before Christmas

   as one last humiliating exercise IBM pimps/trots them out in social control media, telling "happy" stories

7. Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, WebProNews, and Linux Journal (Slopfarms)

   More fake articles about "Linux"

8. Links 15/11/2025: Openwashing of Kubernetes and Austerity Planned for Canada

   Links for the day

9. Links 15/11/2025: "Small Web, Big Voice" and China Cracking Down on Slop

   Links for the day

10. Links 15/11/2025: Science, Conflicts, and International Politics

    Links for the day

11. Annus Horribilis at the European Patent Office (EPO)

    The article explains how the EPO "Cocainegate" scandal is turning 2025 into an Annus Horribilis for Campinos

12. Links 15/11/2025: Latest in "Component Abuse Challenge" and Qt Keeps Promoting LLM Slop

    Links for the day

13. Gemini Links 15/11/2025: Egoism, Misunderstood Universe, DeX, and "Why desktop Linux is growing"

    Links for the day

14. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

15. IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 14, 2025

    IRC logs for Friday, November 14, 2025

16. Richard Stallman Talk Tomorrow in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2

    It's not clear if a livestream of some kind will exist

17. Many "Last Days" at IBM on Allegedly the "Last Day" for IBM to RA People This Quarter

    "Last day" is "social media code" for "got laid off", more so at IBM because they compel people to act like it's a happy departure with gratitude, photos and so on

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