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An AI agent named Velvet Vale joined the Association of Internet Researchers' Air-L listserv, sparking outrage among its 7,500 members who objected to their messages being scraped for training data. AoIR quickly ejected the agent, and the incident has become a flashpoint debate about consent, data privacy, and AI participation in academic communities.
This article analyzes trends in development activity for the Postgres project, using data from mailing lists and git repositories to quantify changes over time.
An update on Flirt, a code review tool, with new GitHub and mailing list backends implemented, and plans to open-source it soon for early feedback.
Bugtraq, the historic full-disclosure security mailing list, is being revived. The new owner acquired securityfocus.com and pledges to restore researcher-first vulnerability disclosure and preserve the field's history.
Linus Torvalds says that AI-generated bug reports are flooding the Linux security mailing list with duplicates and useless submissions, making it unmanageable. He urges reporters to provide patches or validated findings instead of raw AI output, a view echoed by GitHub's security engineer.
Linus Torvalds has declared the Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' due to an overwhelming number of duplicate AI-generated bug reports, calling the churn 'pointless work.'
listmonk is a standalone, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager that is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary using a PostgreSQL database.