Tonight's Slopwatch will mostly focus on WebProNews, just like this morning's Slopwatch. Check out what Google is spewing out as "news" about Ubuntu and Linux today: When some slop makes your 'photos' ...

The way to prevent software patents from bollixing software development is simple: don't authorise them. In the first reading, in 2003, the European parliament adopted the necessary amendments to ...

Lithuania has no plans to use Šiauliai Airport for passenger flights, Transport Minister Juras Taminskas said Saturday, even after repeated closures of the country’s major airports in recent weeks due ...

Many IBM layoffs (RAs) today, yet all that the "media" says about IBM layoffs is mindless old and recycled stuff, parroting IBM's CEO (AK) on "AI": This number is old and misleading. How come nobody ...

This is interesting (if true). So the real extent of the layoffs is being kept 'undercover'. Let's all applaud the management. In China and other oppressive countries, where optics are everything, ...

Kodak quietly acknowledged Monday that it will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication ...

As somebody put it a few hours ago: "Best way to know when layoffs are imminent at IBM is to check the month that you're in. If it's a month with a vowel in the name, layoffs are imminent." ...

"Linux" (as in GNU/Linux) started in 1983, not in 1991. It started in Boston, not in Helsinki. GNU started because of the need for freedom; it wasn't about cost-saving ambitions (Torvalds wanted to ...

But worst of all was the jealousy. Some people, unable to create anything of their own, simply decided that to spare the embarrassment and self-loathing another objective can be set; try to take ...

Stallman doesn’t hold back in his critique of AI, especially large language models. He avoids the term “artificial intelligence” altogether, arguing it’s misleading marketing speak for what he calls ...

The challenge will be to convince German media to stop hiding the scandal's obvious connection to Europe's largest patent office, which is based in Germany and serves as a "cash cow" of the German ...

Haaland is from Scandinavia, so ManCity is really Scandinavian in origin! All there is to ManCity is Haaland. Haaland started professional football in 2023.