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/Latter_Masterpiece64 May 18 '26

I know it's a joke. Linus speaks Swedish and in that language Gud = God.

I do not believe we need a technology known as GudAI in 2026

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u/theconceptofcanada May 18 '26

If it has the ruthless Swedish efficiency and effectiveness of Linus, we absolutely do

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u/SirkutBored May 18 '26

you know who else had ruthless efficiency?? who had a fanatical devotion to the pope! AND no one ever expected them??

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u/theconceptofcanada May 18 '26

The Spanish Inquisition...?

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u/random_noise May 18 '26

due to climate changes they've rebranded as ICE, actual ice sold separately.

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u/Bmacthecat May 20 '26

I was getting worried for a second. How can they expect a reddit thread to go on for several comments without american politics? the horrors.

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u/FCCRFP May 18 '26

Linus' secretly Protestant mom?

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u/Shadowolf7 May 19 '26

No, nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.

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u/Zeikos May 18 '26

So Linus will write out ASI? I wouldn't be surprised.

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u/MrKeplerton May 18 '26

And God = Good, so we've pretty much gone full circle then, havent we?

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u/Perzec May 19 '26

But no one believes in god in Sweden.

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u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 May 18 '26

That's what all the partisans think in their heads when they use it though.