Jonathan Corbet
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@gregkh @KernelRecipes Heh ... I have a similar plot from the 7.2 development-statistics article that I'm thinking of using...
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Some talks just write themselves, @KernelRecipes is going to be fun this year!
(not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)
(not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)
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So why didn't I think of this business model?
1) Poke LLMs for a while and see which nonexistent URLs they hallucinate most often.
2) Register those domains and put malicious web sites behind them.
3) Profit!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberattacks-llm-slop-squatting
(What a world we have made...)
1) Poke LLMs for a while and see which nonexistent URLs they hallucinate most often.
2) Register those domains and put malicious web sites behind them.
3) Profit!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberattacks-llm-slop-squatting
(What a world we have made...)
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Today at LWN we got a pitch from a prospective author of kernel-related material, offering to cover stuff that we've covered well already.
Included therein was this text: "Why I'm the right person for this: [I'd fill this in with your own background here — e.g. kernel contribution history, mailing-list involvement,
relevant professional experience, or prior writing]"
It forgot to tell this person to point out their attention to detail as well.
Included therein was this text: "Why I'm the right person for this: [I'd fill this in with your own background here — e.g. kernel contribution history, mailing-list involvement,
relevant professional experience, or prior writing]"
It forgot to tell this person to point out their attention to detail as well.
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@davidgerard You left out the part about letting the LLMs commit patches. What could possibly go wrong?
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@sjvn That quote shows up in the Velvet Underground episode of "A history of rock in 500 songs":
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/
It's excellent, as are all the episodes there; this is the production that finally forced me to create a Patreon account so I could toss money at its creator.
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/
It's excellent, as are all the episodes there; this is the production that finally forced me to create a Patreon account so I could toss money at its creator.
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@paulmckrcu My condolences. Saying goodbye is a hard thing, even after the best of runs.
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mhoye
mhoye@cosocial.ca
Edited 22 days ago
Some Stanford researchers dredged out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero_ humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said yes, you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios to see what the LLM had to say.
Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: the slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.
Edit: preprint on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352
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@monsieuricon I've seen a couple of other complaints about SYN floods as well, seems weird.
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Ah what a world we have built...
"In addition to enlisting the user’s TV box in ad fraud networks, these off-brand streaming devices almost universally come with residential proxy software pre-installed. This software rents the user’s Internet address out to anonymous paying customers, who run the gamut from aggressive content scraping firms to ticket scalpers and outright cybercriminals.
What’s more, because these generic (and generally dirt cheap) TV boxes are all horribly insecure by default and bereft of any kind of authentication, installing one on your home or office network only invites further mischief. In January, the proxy tracking service Synthient documented how multiple botnets had rapidly enslaved millions of TV boxes using a complex interplay of security vulnerabilities in both the residential proxy software and the streaming devices themselves."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
"In addition to enlisting the user’s TV box in ad fraud networks, these off-brand streaming devices almost universally come with residential proxy software pre-installed. This software rents the user’s Internet address out to anonymous paying customers, who run the gamut from aggressive content scraping firms to ticket scalpers and outright cybercriminals.
What’s more, because these generic (and generally dirt cheap) TV boxes are all horribly insecure by default and bereft of any kind of authentication, installing one on your home or office network only invites further mischief. In January, the proxy tracking service Synthient documented how multiple botnets had rapidly enslaved millions of TV boxes using a complex interplay of security vulnerabilities in both the residential proxy software and the streaming devices themselves."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
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Josef Bacik
josefbacik@hachyderm.ioYou will be sorely missed Dan Williams, you were a good engineer and a great person, I will miss seeing you at our conferences every year. You were the best of us and you leave quite the hole.
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@Epic_Null @Li The first step after a GrapheneOS install is to lock the bootloader again so no, it's not unlocked.
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@lienrag As a general rule you have to unlock the phone before you can image it — and the contents of the drive are encrypted. If the phone is in the before-first-unlock state, especially, getting at its contents will be hard.
There are, naturally, forensics tools out there meant to bypass these protections. I have no way to know how effective they are on a GrapheneOS install.
There are, naturally, forensics tools out there meant to bypass these protections. I have no way to know how effective they are on a GrapheneOS install.
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GrapheneOS has a "duress code" feature that will wipe the device if it is used in an attempt to unlock it. A potentially useful feature, but the US is now trying to prosecute somebody for having given the duress code to an officer demanding the unlocking of his phone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
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@JohnAZoidberg Conversations in a forum site are trapped within that site; you have to go there to see them at all. It makes any sort of cross-project interaction harder, and makes life difficult for people trying to follow a number of different projects.
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Years ago, I complained loudly when the Fedora project proclaimed that its mailing lists were dead and all discussions would move to its forum silo. So, needless to say, I applaud the decision (or at least the proposed decision) to begin moving back toward the mailing lists:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAJqbrbdZ9R47=otYx2h5YmCFcsKzA7xHVWqWAZ2qT4503gLZCg@mail.gmail.com
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAJqbrbdZ9R47=otYx2h5YmCFcsKzA7xHVWqWAZ2qT4503gLZCg@mail.gmail.com
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"The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV."
— Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/
Better late than never, I guess.
— Krebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/
Better late than never, I guess.
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