Might be a British thing (assuming you're not?) in magazines with a tongue-in-cheek character. For example Private Eye always refer to "the Grauniad" and "Carter-Fuck"
Given the British influence on Iberian Penisula culture in computing, and the amount of BBC stuff we consume, I always have a special place for that kind of humour.
Oh, so that's where "the Grauniad" comes from? I never knew, although I've occasionally used it myself. Fairly sure I first saw it on Usenet in the late '90s, from Charlie Stross.
Private Eye is a satirical magazine though. It's not a primary news source in the same way that The Register wants to be for tech news. At one point The Register would have been one of my primary news sources, with multiple visits daily. They definitely* ramped up their absurdist side some time in the 2010s. It's not that I'm specifically against satire, but for me they just overused it to the point where visiting their site was annoying.
I guess that I should note that I haven't really looked at the site other than the odd linked article in probably close to a decade.
* okay, not definitely, but that was my impression
Do you read private eye? the satirical pieces are confined to a few pages in the middle, definitely not more than a third (maybe the purely humourous sections count as a third if you include cartoons). They're primarily investigative journalism if you ask me, admittedly the news pieces are often sarcastic and witty. Look up their role in the post office scandal, or the Paul Foot awards.
> They definitely* ramped up their absurdist side some time in the 2010s.
Huh? Naah. Or, maybe -- perhaps they ramped it back up in the '10s, if they'd ramped it down a lot in the '00s. Because they were wildly satirical in the '90s.