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Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore • The Register (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, 2026-03-26) – interview Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away … "Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. … Two weeks later from SJVN: Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly – opinion Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities He quotes David Wheeler, director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation (LF), which supports Glasswing: … "Is there a risk of lock-in? Yes, that's always a risk. That said, I don't think the risk is as bad and we're working on ways to address this. … "… the new open source software cyber reasoning system (OSS-CRS) emerged from AIxCC and is a standard orchestration framework for building and running LLM-based autonomous bug-finding and bug-fixing systems." The second part was new to me. AIxCC: AI Cyber Challenge | DARPA Launched in 2023, the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) is a two-year competition that brings together the best and brightest in AI and cybersecurity to safeguard the software critical to all Americans. … In the penultimate paragraph, SJVN agrees with the CFO of the Linux Foundation. There's real urgency.

For convenience, from the toot in Mastodon: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1sgmi14/claude_mythos_preview_fully_autonomously_finds/ … (plus Linux, OpenBSD, and others) – more concerning than calif.io story with known CVE and human prompting? …＂ – @bigsneakyduck (Sorry. I imagined that the original mention in Mastodon would have shared the whole of the toot as the opening post here.)

@Gina @tinker There's NO drama in Free Open Source Software. Look, there's a sticker so it must be true.https://www.runningwithbulls.com/2026/03/no-drama-just-linux/

@ratfactor@mastodon.art @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe ah, oops, thanks for the correction, and thanks for sharing anyway

@ruben@kedara.social said: Sysadmin tasks will be performed (remotely) Maybe difficult with OpenZFS-encrypted root-on-ZFS. Will your mom be prepared to enter the passphrase when a task requires a restart of the OS?