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AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
How Stack Overflow’s Reputation System Led To Its Own Downfall It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong. Stack Overflow once was the…
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Finding a Linux Vulnerability with ChatGPT
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation by Sean Heelan In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no…
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Signal Protects Against Win11 Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re only implementing this on Windows right now, it’s…
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Opinion: The Future of Flatpak
At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. The Flatpak application-packaging format is popular with upstream developers, and with many users. More and more applications are being published in the Flathub application store, and the format is even being adopted by Linux distributions like Fedora. However, he worried that work…
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HackBerryPiCM5 handheld PCs
Highlight: HackBerryPi CM5 is an open source, Raspberry Pi-powered handheld PC with a BlackBerry keyboard. The HackBerryPiCM5 is a handheld computer with a 4 inch, 720 x 720 pixel touchscreen display, a repurposed BlackBerry keyboard, and and a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 inside, allowing you to use the device as a portable Linux computer. It’s the…
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New Vulnerability on Kernel
Linux Kernel Zero-Day SMB Vulnerability Discovered via ChatGPT Security researcher has discovered a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-37899) in the Linux kernel’s SMB server implementation using OpenAI’s o3 language model. The vulnerability, a use-after-free bug in the SMB ‘logoff’ command handler, could potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. This discovery marks a…
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