AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports (opens in new tab)

AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise instead of fixing real problems. Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel’s creator, says the flood has made the project’s security mailing list “almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools.” Too many duplicates, and too much AI slop “If you found a bu...