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AI-generated bug reports flood Open Sauce projects
Published in AI


Developer Backlash 

A surge of low-quality software vulnerability reports generated by artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked frustration among open-source developers, who warn that the trend wastes valuable time and resources. 

Linux bugs fixed faster
Published in News
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:39

Linux bugs fixed faster


Closed source is slower 

Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and it looks like no one stomps on bugs faster than a Linux developer.

Ancient driver bug could hit Windows machines
Published in News


High severity

Insecurity experts have released technical details on a high-severity privilege-escalation flaw in HP printer drivers - also used by Samsung and Xerox, which impacts hundreds of millions of Windows machines.

Chrome’s security bugs are memory safety problems
Published in News


More than 70 percent of them

Most of Chromes serious security bugs are due to memory memory safety problems, the Chromium project said.

Apple’s latest software has a crashing bug
Published in News


Can’t handle big stuff

Mac users are experiencing occasional system crashes after updating to macOS Catalina version 10.15.4, released a few weeks ago and it turns out that the software might not be up to snuff.

Vole suffers a bad case of unpatched flaw on its SMB
Published in News


Despite Microsoft’s time and money it still has more holes than Blackburn

Insecurity experts have found another unpatched vulnerability in version 3.1.1 of the Server Message Block (SMB) -- the service that's used to share files, printers, and other resources on local networks and over the internet.

Swiss boffins make robotic terminator bugs
Published in IoT
Tuesday, 24 December 2019 10:25

Swiss boffins make robotic terminator bugs


You can't step on them

Swiss boffins have developed a light, quick robotic bug called the DEAnsect, which can withstand several whacks from a flyswatter and can survive being stepped on by a shoe.

Shedloads of 5G bugs revealed
Published in Network
Wednesday, 13 November 2019 13:13

Shedloads of 5G bugs revealed


Not up to snuff

5G suppliers and telcos are rapidly discovering that the bleeding edge tech is haemorrhaging bugs.

Increase of bugs in Windows updated explained
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 24 September 2019 10:54

Increase of bugs in Windows updated explained


Vole decided to fire all the people responsible for bug checking 

Software King of the World Microsoft apparently adopted an "anti-vaxer" policy when it came to bugs in Windows updates.

AMD might make a killing from new Intel chip bug
Published in PC Hardware


All Chipzilla chips open to new Spoiler non-Spectre attack

AMD might scoop up some more custom after researchers have discovered a new flaw affecting all Intel chips due to the way they carry out speculative execution for CPU performance gains.