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Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports
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Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports

The Verge · May 18, 2026, 2:21 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Linux founder Linus Torvalds said in his most recent state of the kernel post that "the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools," as The Register reports. That probably doesn't apply to stuff like the "Copy Fail" exploit, which was detected with help from AI and affected nearly every Linux distro. "The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am," Torvalds said. "So just to make it really clear: if you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too." He called t … Read the full story at The Verge.

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