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Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms Still Infesting Google News (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" Spreading FUD)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2025

Slop 'hallucinating': Canonical brings NVIDIA CUDA directly to Ubuntu Linux for easier AI development

Today's Slopwatch starts with the funny one above. The Serial Slopper (SS) is so sloppy that even his slop images contain typos. It's a product of what the scam artists of the "hey hi" industry [sic] like to dub 'hallucination' rather than failure, error, malfunction. The image plagiarisers and fusions fail to operate properly. The SS didn't seem too bothered by that.

How much worse will the Web get?

On we move to Google News, where searching for "Linux" today yields a lot of Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) from slopfarms which don't even make their own images, they use slop for that too:

Slop or fake: Linux CUPS Vulnerability Let Attackers Remote DoS and Bypass Authentication

From the sister slopfarm (operated by the same people; there's hardly any variation either):

Slop or fake: Linux CUPS Flaw Allows Remote Denial of Service and Authentication Bypass

CUPS is not Linux. CUPS is Apple. From the same slopfarm:

Slop or fake: AI Pentesting Tool ‘Villager’ Merges Kali Linux with DeepSeek AI for Automated Security Attacks

More and MOAR slop. Boosted by Google News.

Also in Google News right now:

Slop or fake: Intel Loses Key Linux USB4 and Thunderbolt Maintainer Mika Westerberg

Fake face, fake author, fake text, likely plagiarised based on Phoronix.

It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year.

Google, what the heck is wrong with you?

Why do you keep feeding fake sites and googlebombing community-led projects?

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