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LLM's found a mountain of security exploits of different magnitudes in the Linux kernel which got patched.
Finding vulnerabilities and thus fixing them is a good thing. At least with Linux we know what is happening.
Imagine thinking that's a large amount of patches.
1,313 were in the Linux patch.
now it feels like they're just showing off. lol
New rules for what counts as CVE.
This. Basically all kernel bugs get CVE numbers now.
"Security Vulnerabilities".
No. "Code changes that could one day be a vulnerability but aren't yet exploited or even proved".
Slop.
Please someone make this an actual animation with the music lol