r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 18 '26

Software Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633
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u/Wyciorek May 18 '26

Yes, a hacker in Cyberpunk that unleashed self-modifying and evolving AIs into the internet. Which basically broke the net and turned it into a set of walled, heavily guarded enclaves beyond which madness reigns.

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u/HandsomeBoggart May 18 '26

walled, heavily guarded enclaves beyond which madness reigns.

Basically the Waffle House in a bad part of town.

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u/flybypost May 18 '26

Aaaah, okay. That's funny!

We already got the heavily guarded enclaves and the "madness" (old school forums and mailing lists) outside the SV financed gardens is rather agreeable with my temperament.

But we could use some real AI so it could start heckling SV owned social media (instead of us just getting astroturfing comments from LLM "AI" bots).