Doesn't help that editorial standards in general have taken a nose dive lately, with people spreading random anonymous rumors as "news." The first thing I do w

Doesn't help that editorial standards in general have taken a nose dive lately, with people spreading random anonymous rumors as "news." The first thing I do when I read a story any more is look for what sources of information they draw upon and whether or not they can be corroborated by any means. If your list of sources is full of anonymous rumors and things that can't be fact checked, or other stories with poor sourcing, I ignore the entire article and its conclusions. It's an interesting exercise for how you consume news (and especially "news") and I recommend it to everyone. That's part of what makes reading purely technical discussions so much more enjoyable. We're not talking about random internet rumors, we talk about code and anyone with a compiler, debugger, etc. can verify things directly. There's much less room for BS, because someone can call you on it and prove you wrong in ways that everyone can verify independently.