… For example, most every Linux distribution recently found itself on the wrong end of the Copy Fail and Dirty Frag privilege escalation vulnerabilities gaining administrator access with a local account , for which patches hadn't been made widely available as there wasn't enough time between their di… …
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… While traditional SEO poisoning has existed for years, the growing use of AI chatbots and LLM-powered assistants for software recommendations may be creating a new attack surface where malicious sites gain additional visibility through generated responses. …
AI-assisted coding or vibe coding has infiltrated Linux driver maintenance, with Linux developers now using LLMs to help maintain old drivers in the Linux kernel. …
Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …
… Linux has had its worst week in years with the CopyFail and Dirty Frag root-gaining vulnerabilities, and things aren't much rosier at Microsoft, thanks to the YellowKey BitLocker bypass, as well as GreenPlasma and RedSun privilege-gaining exploits. …
… Linux After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code. Linux The Linux 7.0 kernel has merged support for three new keycodes intended for a coming wave of laptops with dedicated AI agent keys. …
… MacOS Apple is considering using models from OpenAI or Anthropic to power Siri and improve its AI competitiveness, according to a Bloomberg report. …
… For example, the company is now shipping its 44TB Mozaic 4-based drives to select clients and plans to expand availability in 2027. Meanwhile, Seagate intends to start qualification shipments of 50TB HDDs featuring the next-generation Mozaic 5 platform in late 2027. …
… Who’s in those teams and what they bring is also shifting: engineers who are fluent with AI coding assistants are now in demand where they weren't six months ago. Jevons’ paradox also looms large over the potential of AI in the chip design process. …