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Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, BetaNews, and Linux Journal

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 20, 2025

Europe is Leaving Microsoft, the Press Coverage Isn't Sufficiently Helpful

In our last Slopwatch we showed several examples of this news about a hole, which is not severe, being spun by LLMs for machine-generated FUD. Google News even relayed some of these fake articles.

↺ HTTP: this news about a hole

We then saw similar things in the slopfarm called Linuxsecurity:

HTTPS image: BERT Ransomware Takes Aim at Linux Systems

HTTPS image: Critical Flaws Discovered in X.Org X Server and Xwayland

Fake 'articles'.

Speaking of slopfarm, so far the BetaNews site (after all staff got fired from what we can gather) is 100% slopfarming. This is what they published yesterday:

all staff got fired from what we can gather

HTTPS image: Windows Hello Facial Recognition Fails in the Dark After Update

So far every 'article' there is LLM slop, including this one:

HTTPS image: Microsoft has not fully explained the change, and there's no clear fix or rollback option yet.

It seems like a dead site walking. No real writers there.

We hope that Linux Journal will survive. All this LLM slop contributes to the assumption that a site like this, with slop images everywhere, also crossed to the "dark side" (slopfarming). An article was very recently deleted there. We don't know why.

From what we can gather, they still publish real articles, but they're reaching out to some slop for graphics and that's a slippery slope. █

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