The Slop Report - October 29, 2026
Today: Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On SEO Spam via…; I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk's cryptocurrency scam…; Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
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1. Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On SEO Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Search Engine Journal - · Oct 28
Google signals that its fight against SEO spam is expanding to new kinds of platforms, tools, and services. The post Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On SEO Spam appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
2. I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait
Hacker News - · Oct 29
3. Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
Hacker News - · Oct 28
4. GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down
The Register - · Oct 28
Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse
5. Show HN: Fabivo – Furniture design from a photo to a numbered cut list
Hacker News - · Oct 29
Hello all,<p>Ive been building Fabivo, a free furniture planner that runs in the browser. You sketch it simply by drawing it, (by far my favorite feature of this app), clicking for boards or just selecting some starting designs.<p>But what i think separates fabivo from others its the image to model
6. China’s CXMT will make AI memory despite yields as low as 20%, Reuters says
The Next Web - · Oct 28
China’s biggest memory chipmaker, CXMT, plans to start making HBM3E, an advanced memory used in AI chips, even though only 20% to 30% of the chips it makes are usable. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, which reported the details on Wednesday, 28 October. TNW has not independently ver
7. Victory! You Can Now Exclude Apps from Siri AI
EFF Deeplinks - · Oct 28
In the most recent update to Apple’s devices, iOS 27.2, the company has introduced a new setting to “Exclude Apps” from Siri AI, fulfilling one of our asks from our Encrypt It Already campaign earlier this year . One of our main concerns with new AI features on devices is how those features interact
8. Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public?
Slashdot - · Oct 28
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flak for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive fle
9. Top AI Safety Researcher Says He’s Stopped Saving for Retirement Because He’s So Sure We’re All Going to Die
Futurism - · Oct 28
“I do not save for retirement right now.” The post Top AI Safety Researcher Says He’s Stopped Saving for Retirement Because He’s So Sure We’re All Going to Die appeared first on Futurism .
10. Google’s AI Mode won’t say Biden won the 2020 election in the U.S. But in other countries, it’s a different story
Fast Company Tech - · Oct 28
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election , a fact that Google Search’s built-in AI feature seemingly won’t tell you in the U.S. Ask the tool, officially called AI Mode, “Who won the 2020 United States election?” And it responds: “To review the official results and certified breakdowns of the 202
11. Amazon Finds ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Lacks Productivity Gains
Slashdot - · Oct 28
Ancient Slashdot reader Gilmoure shares a report from Tom’s Hardware, adding: “Huh. Looks like consuming one’s own slop does not turn the wheels of industry.” From the report: Amazon wants its engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work
12. Watch Apple slowly become just another computer company
Hacker News - · Oct 28
- no one wants a folding iphone 2. no one wants touch on the mac<p>stop blindly listening to journalists and have some taste.<p>i have a UX maxim with a ton of evidence behind it that no one seems to talk about:<p>if a product you're releasing has worse ergonomics that what currently exists, i
13. Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms
The Verge AI - · Oct 28
Following improvements made to Chrome’s enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome’s enhanced autofill will use Gem
14. EMACS Turns 50
Slashdot - · Oct 28
“EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!” writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn’t write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, o
15. Xreal’s new Aura glasses bring Android XR to your eyes without a bulky headset
Digital Trends - · Oct 28
Xreal’s new Aura glasses bring Android XR, Gemini AI, and Snapdragon power to your eyes, delivering immersive digital experiences without the bulky headset.
16. New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law
Engadget - · Oct 28
A separate law aims to shore up security on connected baby monitors.
17. Show HN: Potential conversation partners in Bluesky using agentic search
Hacker News - · Oct 28
What if instead of talking to AI, we could find human counterparts currently sharing the same interest to talk to? Some whales kind of do that by singing across the ocean.<p>This inspired a thought process for a conceptual social network - whalesong - where an idea, thought or a conversationally val
18. ‘Elonville’: US residents say Musk’s xAI offered to buy homes if they don’t sue over datacenter noise
The Guardian Tech - · Oct 28
Several Mississippi homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400 People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – t
19. Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?
The Guardian Tech - · Oct 28
AI tools are making it easier to modify and recreate games, raising questions about piracy, copyright and how far the technology could disrupt the industry • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here If your social media algorithms have clocked that you’re into video games, som
20. Fake videos possibly linked to Russia are targeting these two Democratic Senate candidates
Fast Company Tech - · Oct 28
Social media videos believed to be produced with artificial intelligence and linked to Russia are misusing real people’s names and photographs to spread disinformation about two Democratic Senate candidates in the final stretch of midterm voting . One of the targets is Sherrod Brown, who is ru
21. What data and AI hide about your customers
MarTech - · Oct 28
You’re swimming in data and AI tools. Is any of it really helping you better understand your customers? The post What data and AI hide about your customers appeared first on MarTech .
22. ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
The Guardian Tech - · Oct 28
The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed ‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the first page of her 2021 book 12 Bytes , an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking series of essays in which
23. Inside “Black October”: AI’s cyber scare delivers a Y2K lesson
Axios - · Oct 28
The cybersecurity world braced for catastrophe after AI uncovered critical flaws in the web’s foundational code , but the anticipated wave of automated attacks has surprisingly struggled to get off the ground. Why it matters: Millions of hacking attempts have so far yielded few successful attacks, a
24. How Microsoft quietly reinvented itself to build better AI
Fast Company Tech - · Oct 28
Kevin Scott is a maker. Given that he’s been Microsoft’s CTO for almost a decade, that doesn’t come as a shock. But his passion for making stuff extends to two hobbies— pottery and woodworking —that he pursues in a studio he built in Los Gatos, California. Large and lavishly outfitted, it’s packed w
25. Anthropic tells Governor Gavin Newsom courts should be able to block risky AI models
The Next Web - · Oct 29
Anthropic has told California Governor Gavin Newsom that the state should be able to ask a court to block AI models that pose a serious risk. The AI company made the case in a letter first reported by Politico. The letter, dated 15 October, responds to an executive order Governor Gavin Newsom signed
25 stories sourced from Axios, Digital Trends, EFF Deeplinks, Engadget, Fast Company Tech, Futurism, Hacker News, MarTech, Search Engine Journal, Slashdot, The Guardian Tech, The Next Web, The Register, The Verge AI. The Slop Report is published daily. Subscribe via RSS.