Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025,
updated Dec 09, 2025

Today's Daily Links are done (both batches). Lots of news lately has been about slop waning and falling off a cliff, both in financial terms and in terms of performance - however one measures it.

We too have noticed that slop usage/abundance has waned. Almost all the sites that targeted "linux" (or "ubuntu" or whatever) with slop are dead, stagnant, or back to real writing (real text, real images, not ripoffs).

The only exception to that which we found today was this pseudonym:

Aside from that, Google News got hammered by a triplet of slopfarms operated by the same person/s, who slaps the same junk (fake text, fake images) into at least three domains.

Google News has determined all the following are "linux" news:

Can Google not detect a pattern here?

Or here:

How bad has Google News become? Well, bad enough to include the following 9 picks from the same slopfarm (WebProNews) in one day:

1. AMD Proposes Push-Based Load Balancing for Linux Kernel on Epyc CPUs
2. Canonical Tests GitHub Copilot for Ubuntu Error Tracker Upgrade
3. Linux Kernel 6.19 Enhances HID for Gaming Peripherals and Security
4. Linux 6.19 Kernel Adds PCIe Link Encryption for Secure Computing
5. Linux 6.19: Enhancements and Early Performance Regressions Uncovered
6. Arm’s MPAM Extension Hits Linux 6.19 for Optimized Data Center Performance
7. Linux Kernel 6.19 Adds Terminus 10×18 Font for HiDPI Console Clarity
8. Linux Kernel 6.19 Enables USB3 on Apple M1 Devices
9. Linux 6.19 Boosts Rust Kernel Integration with Driver Params and I2C Support

A lot of these are plagiarised Phoronix. Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes. It's run by a company that's doomed to collapse the moment more shareholders recognise slop (painted as "AI") is just a flop. █