Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content')
So today I wanted to see what I can collect, over RSS, from Google News regarding "Ubuntu" and "Linux":
Oh, dear. Notice the top results, it's all the same slopfarm with fake author names, fake images, fake text...
There are 4 more further down in the results:
Further down in Google News (search for "Linux"):
All of those (5 in total) are slopfarms operated by the same people.
One strand of FUD (notice similarity):
Another strand of machine-generated FUD (blame "Linux" for some OEM issue [1-3]):
So 14 results in total are slopfarms operated by just two groups (we see some legitimate news sites linking to these slopfarms, simply because this is what Google News leads them to, and they don't know better).
There is one more slopfarm in the results (hence, a total of at least 15):
Google News has been drowning in this sort of stuff for quite some time. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
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BadCam: Linux-based Lenovo webcam bugs enable BadUSB attacks [Ed: So the issue is not Linux but this OEM]
Lenovo webcam flaws, dubbed BadCam, let attackers turn them into BadUSB devices to inject keystrokes and launch OS-independent attacks.
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Linux-Based Lenovo Webcams' Flaw Can Be Remotely Exploited for BadUSB Attacks [Ed: They try to make it sound like this is about Linux]
"This allows remote attackers to inject keystrokes covertly and launch attacks independent of the host operating system," Eclypsium researchers Paul Asadoorian, Mickey Shkatov, and Jesse Michael said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
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BadCam: New BadUSB Attack Turns Linux Webcams Into Persistent Threats
Eclypsium researchers have demonstrated a BadCam attack against Lenovo cameras, but others may be impacted as well.