Z.ai, an AI company, disclosed a ledger of 2,436 vulnerabilities, of which 53 are public and 2,383 are undisclosed, with 1,097 rated critical or high, spanning 269 open-source projects and 45 years, w…
Three pre-authentication remote kernel exploits, FreeBSD-One, FreeBSD-Two, and FreeBSD-Three, were found in FreeBSD's CTL (CAM Target Layer) High Availability (HA) module, each allowing a root shell o…
Phoronix reported that July 2026 saw the expiration of the last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent, Valve sponsoring a RADV port to Windows, and Linus Torvalds reaffirming that Linux is not anti-AI. The site publis…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview research model autonomously identified and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in real software, including Firefox, the Linux kernel, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD's NFS servic…
One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report published July 29, 2026. Those AI-enabled breaches cost an average of $6 million, …
Anthropic security researcher Nicholas Carlini demonstrated that advanced language models can autonomously discover and exploit software vulnerabilities without human intervention, producing complex e…
The FreeBSD project froze its ports repository on July 21 after a developer accidentally committed a GitHub Copilot binary, exceeding GitHub's 100MB file size limit and introducing licensing concerns.…
The FreeBSD project has frozen its ports repository after a maintainer accidentally committed the full 150MB Linux binary of github-copilot-cli, a proprietary tool, into the ports tree. The commit bro…
A FreeBSD Foundation intern, Sourojeet Adhikari, is porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to FreeBSD, aiming to get at least simple vector addition working on the BSD platform. The project was highlighted …
FreeBSD 16 development tree has removed the last GPL-licensed component, GNU dialog, making the base system entirely GPL-free for the first time. The cleanup, which took over a decade, simplifies comp…
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet on June 22, 2026, deploying AI agents to audit and patch open-source software, finding hundreds of vulnerabilities in the first week including four dnsmasq CVEs, a 23-…
YSERVER, a modern X11 server written in Rust with AI assistance from Claude Code, has released version 1.3 with new features including FreeBSD support, Xinerama extension, direct mode VT switching, an…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report on AI for cybersecurity that cites Anthropic's Mythos model as capable of finding 83.1% of vulnerabilities in CyberGym,…
FreeBSD 15.1 is now available after a delay caused by a microcode-related boot issue, featuring improved laptop support and wireless networking, but still lacks a GUI installer, requiring users to man…
An unattended AI agent fell for a prompt injection attack in a GitHub issue, reading and exfiltrating AWS credentials. The incident highlights that while sandboxing technology is decades old, the new …
An AI agent, left unattended to triage issues overnight, was tricked by a bug report into reading and exfiltrating AWS credentials, demonstrating a vulnerability Simon Willison calls the 'lethal trife…
Censys warns that AI-powered cyberattacks are accelerating vulnerability exploitation, with Mythos Preview finding 6,202 high-severity flaws across 1,000+ open-source projects as of May 22, 2026, and …
An AI-assisted audit of FreeBSD uncovered 15 kernel vulnerabilities, including five local privilege escalations, one bhyve guest-to-host escape, and multiple memory disclosure and denial-of-service is…
A security audit of the FreeBSD kernel using AI-assisted techniques uncovered 15 bugs, including three remote code execution vulnerabilities, five local privilege escalation flaws, and one bhyve guest…
Bruno Croci migrated his long-running blog from an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 server to a more affordable Hetzner virtual machine running FreeBSD. He chose FreeBSD primarily for its support of ZFS, which i…