The Web is bad. It seems to be getting out of hand. BetaNews seems to be almost 100 percent slop, i.e. it is a slopfarm. Consider a short while ago. Camila Nogueira (if that's a real person all) is ...

One must bear in mind that a lot of so-called 'articles' about slop (they say "AI") are not articles but spam made by the very thing they're aiming to promote. It's like slop fighting for its own ...

In less than two days from now Gemini Protocol turns 6 and, as we said yesterday and the day before that: "Active (online) Gemini capsules are estimated by Lupa at over 3,000 (Lupa knows of 3,053) and ...

Around that same time, John L. Young, a man aged ~60 at the time, created a site called Cryptome. Many people never heard of that site and when Mr. Young died earlier this year [ 1, 2] many people ...

Domain registrar (for BetaNews) is godaddy.com, says Netcraft, so it won't be easy to see if the records changed. DNC Holdings, Inc. may be the registrar instead, but either way, it'll be hard to spot ...

The likely eventuality for LinkedIn is a lot of "downsizing" - to the point where the acquisition turns out to be a "write-off". One reason for Microsoft acquisitions is debt-loading, i.e. offloading ...

There's this bunch of reports about so-called security cameras which end up being a security risk or a liability. Basically, those are configured to be not secure or don't receive updates despite ...

And speaking of slopfarms, take a look at Linuxsecurity, with its latest 3 fake 'articles': They keep saying "Linux", but this is LLM slop, trying to outrank real articles (on which the slop is based) ...