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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

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. …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James

AI shrinks zero-day exploit time from a year to a single day, heading toward one minute — Zero-Day Clock warns security window has collapsed

The cybersecurity world has been abuzz about AI-assisted tools finding vulnerabilities faster than ever. …

May 26, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

Standard 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is likely dead thanks to AI, expert warns that AI can weaponize patches in 30 minutes — LLM-assisted bug-hunting ushers in a new cyberworld order

In case you haven't been in the cybersecurity news lately, here's a quick summary: discoveries and exploits of high-profile software vulnerabilities are becoming faster than ever, in part due to AI-assisted code scanning tools. …

May 12, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots — cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities

… According to a detailed threat report published Tuesday by Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team, the operation specifically targeted users who likely own high-performance graphics cards, including gamers, hardware enthusiasts, AI users, and overclockers. …

May 29, 2026 · Etiido Uko

First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

… Calif published the vulnerability overview as part of a series of blog posts called the Month of AI-Discovered Bugs, since this new Apple vulnerability falls within a set of security findings aided by AI tools — in this case, Anthropic's Mythos Preview. …

May 16, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira

Cyber Security News, Analysis and Features | Tom's Hardware

Cybersecurity Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available Cybersecurity College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains Cybersecurity Security researcher says that Google is likely in violation of EU law and wasting thousands upon tho… …

May 8, 2026

Software News, Analysis and Features | Tom's Hardware

Software Latest about Software Linus Torvalds says AI bug reports have made the Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' By Luke James Last updated 18 May 26 Linux Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim By Kunal Khullar Published 15 May 26 Cloud St… …

May 18, 2026

Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic's new frontier model is 'state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks'

… Mollick, however, says these limitations trip "at the faintest hint of a security problem," suggesting that even the well-intentioned won't be able to use Fable 5 to bolster the security of their code bases. …

Jun 9, 2026 · Jeffrey Kampman

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection — supply-chain campaign spreads across npm and AI developer ecosystems like wildfire

… Hours later, Aikido said several Mistral npm SDK packages had also been compromised as part of the same ongoing “Mini Shai-Hulud” campaign, including @mistralai/mistralai, @mistralai/mistralai-azure, and @mistralai/mistralai-gcp. …

May 12, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Trump administration considers mandatory pre-release vetting of AI models — Anthropic's Mythos cited as catalyst for policy reversal

… The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after the company refused to remove guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, though a federal judge later called that "Orwellian." The NSA has already used Mythos to assess vulnerabilities in government Microsoft software deployme… …

May 4, 2026 · Luke James

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