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Slopwatch: Google Noise ("News"), Linux Security (Slopfarm), and BetaNoise (Serial Slopper)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 30, 2025

Today there's no lack of LLM slop that we can see impacting "Linux", starting with this Google Noise ("News") pick from a notorious slopfarm. Somehow Google Noise or Google staff cannot comprehend the simple fact that this is a fake site piggybacking some genuine or real articles on this topic.

Kali Linux Warns that Update Process is Going to Fail for All Users

The above is LLM slop with slop image. The same goes for this:

Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Privilege Escalation Attacks

And the sister slopfarm, which does the same FUD using the same LLMs (with slop images):

Critical Linux Kernel Flaw (CVE-2025-21756) Allows Privilege Escalation

Also produced by LLMs and presented as "Linux" news by Google Noise right now:

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware

So when people look for Linux news they get fake articles (slop) like the above.

Then there's this:

Key Trends and Takeaways from VulnCon 2025

Pure garbage, as usual:

From groundbreaking solutions to practical methodologies, VulnCon 2025 provided attendees with the tools and insights needed to better protect the ecosystems they oversee. Let’s dive into the key moments and powerful takeaways from this year’s event.

From the same day, trying to googlebomb a topic of "recent discussions, led by Linus Torvalds":

Understanding the Linux Filesystem Case Sensitivity Debate

Fake article, just LLM slop pasted in:

As Linux systems increasingly interact with cross-platform environments...

Last but not least we have BetaNoise, where the Serial Slopper Fagioli (revisit "Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did)") is doing LLM slop with slop images:

AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta released: Here’s what Linux users need to know

Probably a hybrid of LLM slop and some editing of the resultant slop:

If you’re into performance tuning or system debugging, you’ll appreciate having updated builds of Valgrind, SystemTap, and rsyslog, along with newer versions of elfutils and PCP.

Then there's promotional spam made by LLM slop:

AdGuard includes pre-made lists of apps and browsers that can be excluded from HTTPS filtering

Hardly surprising:

AdGuard brings full command line ad-blocking to Linux with stable v1.0 release

Fagioli's colleagues don't seem to be doing LLM slop (we've checked) and the editor of BetaNoise has recognised the problem several times already [1, 2, 3]. Fagioli is basically a BS artist.

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