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Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable'

calendar_today May 18, 2026 person EditorDavid domain slashdot

Today Linus Torvalds announced another Linux release candidate on the kernel mailing list. But he also highlighted “documentation updates” to address a new problem. “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.” (The new documentation says the security team has found “bugs discovered this way systematically surface simultaneously across multiple researchers, often on the same day.”) TORVALDS: People spend all their time just forwarding things to

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