The EU has Chat Control. The UK, which is no longer in the EU, has similar provisions in different laws, which partly overlap ...

The term "Chat Control" contains the word "control"; there are frequent blog posts about it authored by Henrik Alexandersson, translated (automatically) from Swedish: And translated (automatically) ...

After being in beta phase during the past month, the Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for download ahead ...

Unlike 3-D renderings or "Classic" CG, slop images aren't quite original and definitely not fair use; they're a form of plagiarism on an epic scale and there are currently many lawsuits talking about ...

Today's installment of "Slopwatch" will mostly focus on Google News having been infested with fake 'articles' about "Linux", starting with this slopfarm: The sister slopfarm (also in Google News, ...

These people don't try to improve security but to undermine security. Those are people who mock the legal process and fail to meet Orders from Judges at the High Court. In other words, they don't care ...

No article here is made by anything like chatbots or LLMs, not even partially. It's quite easy to be certain: we just never used an LLM. For anything. Not even 'for fun' or some 'experiments'. LLMs ...

Snyk is a very malicious firm that we wrote about in the past. Suppose you run the Web site called The Register MS and you very well know that slop or "GenAI" is a scammy bubble promoted and ...

A couple of years ago Microsoft GitHub fired an entire unit in India. Apparently even workers in India (not migrants) were not affordable anymore. And "morale is going to tank even further." So says a ...

Days ago: If Free/Libre Software is Adding Trillions in Value to the European Economy, Then the European Commission Must Crush Software Patents | As Europe Gets Increasingly Serious About Software ...

Yesterday: Linux Foundation Says "Housekeeping", "Hung", "Normal", "Native Feature/Support" and "Girl/Girls" Are Offensive ...

Based on queries made to several members of staff, Currys PCWorld is even more 'allergic' to GNU/Linux than the above puts it ...