Mastodawn

I just posted a blog, it is 100% nicer and more restrained than our development team would have posted. Read between the lines, people.... ;-)

https://www.isc.org/blogs/2026-04-16-How-to-report-a-vulnerability/

How to report a security vulnerability, 101

At ISC, we sincerely value the contributions of our users, and security researchers, who analyze and probe our software for vulnerabilities.

otto@openbsd 5d ago

DB 🌱💦Apr 11

A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.

The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
#AI #AImistakes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

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otto@openbsd Apr 9

The google translate fares better if I don't set the source language to Dutch. Wondering why it picked that...

otto@openbsd Apr 9

My daughter published an article about her PhD research. (In French no less while she is not a native French speaker. Alas google translate makes a terrible mess of it):
https://theconversation.com/une-nouvelle-piste-pour-stocker-lenergie-solaire-et-fournir-de-lelectricite-quand-le-soleil-sabsente-279710

Une nouvelle piste pour stocker l’énergie solaire… et fournir de l’électricité quand le soleil s’absente

L’énergie solaire est associée à des problèmes d’intermittence, car elle ne génère d’électricité que quand le soleil brille. Certains dispositifs pourraient permettre de stocker le rayonnement solaire sous forme de chaleur, et de récupérer l’énergie sous forme d’électricité.

The Conversation

otto@openbsd Apr 8

Quad9DNS Apr 8

Mark your calendar!

Starting June 15, 2026, DNSSEC strict validation will be active across every Quad9 service endpoint, including 9.9.9.10. 🥳

#DNSSEC #DNS #infosec

https://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-enables-dnssec-on-all-service-endpoints/

otto@openbsd Apr 8

Miod Vallat Apr 8

Is it wednesday already? Then it's time for the next parts of the #OpenBSD/m88k story.

In these parts, m88k systems get to finally enjoy ELF binaries with shared libraries, hardware support improves, and luna88k gets the best bootloader, ever.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k4.html

OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 processors

otto@openbsd Apr 3

宮城巴惠

Apr 2

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

otto@openbsd Apr 2

Aral Balkan Apr 1

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge