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Quoting Willy Tarreau

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On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us. And we're now seeing on a daily basis something that ne

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    Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: WorkOS — Production-ready APIs for auth and access control, so you can ship faster. On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us. And we're now seeing on a daily basis something that never happened before: duplicate reports, or the same bug found by two different people using (possibly slightly) different tools. — Willy Tarreau, Lead Software Developer. HAPROXY Posted 3rd April 2026 at 9:48 pm Recent articles The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering - 3rd April 2026 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast - 2nd April 2026 Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer - 30th March 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd April 2026. linux 48 security 593 ai 1947 generative-ai 1728 llms 1694 ai-security-research 11 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
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