Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation(mathstodon.xyz)

196 points by bertman 1 year ago | 96 comments

Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine(mathstodon.xyz)

260 points by dwohnitmok 11 months ago | 56 comments

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly(mathstodon.xyz)

968 points by bertman 1 year ago | 490 comments

A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao reflecting on how society operates at four scales and how the role of small organized groups has shrunk.

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”(mathstodon.xyz)

590 points by cod1r 9 months ago | 334 comments

Terence Tao's Mastodon post reporting that Erdős problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI, and discussing emerging AI-powered capabilities in mathematics.

Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs(mathstodon.xyz)

507 points by qsort 1 year ago | 161 comments

A Mastodon post by Terence Tao contrasting blue-team (building) and red-team (vulnerability-finding) roles, applied to how LLMs might be used.

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel(lwn.net)

529 points by luispa 24 days ago | 380 comments

LWN.net repost of Debian Security Advisory DSA-6528-1, a Linux kernel security update fixing numerous CVEs, dated September 29, 2026.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

When the machine boots but the reply disappears(mainbrella.com)

4 points by cs1996 18 days ago | 3 comments

Mainbrella engineering blog post on designing its backend so retries are safe when a Linux machine is created but the reply to the client is lost.

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.

Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules(lwn.net)

348 points by segfaultbuserr 3 years ago | 315 comments

Article on Linux 6.6 module infrastructure changes that block proprietary drivers like NVIDIA's from using GPL-only kernel symbols.