2026-10-02T05:24:03Z https://njump.me Jed Brown https://njump.me/npub1466v6757um9psdj7z08dty33ulxq9azkhk3ecdxrhxpm09drzsks7cp862 https://media.neuromatch.social/accounts/avatars/117/335/250/292/173/631/original/1477189b43157217.png https://media.neuromatch.social/accounts/avatars/117/335/250/292/173/631/original/1477189b43157217.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrsnx377nenn76w4nr9qk3xwdupt4kn5zrpd4jufa38epan6u0hxqzyzhtfnt6nmnv5xpktcfua4vjx8nucqh5267688p5cwuc8du45v2z62wdgpj If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this.<br/><br/>Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers<br/><br/>We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:<br/><br/>Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.<br/><br/>Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.<br/><br/>Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.<br/><br/><a href="https://math.mit.edu/~elmos/petition.html">https://math.mit.edu/~elmos/petition.html</a> 2026-10-05T00:31:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr76t2ypxrw2qh88fmcv0jh9pank8wcca5vpz3938cyxxw84wgxcszyzhtfnt6nmnv5xpktcfua4vjx8nucqh5267688p5cwuc8du45v2z6xxzwlm <br/><br/>We all hate this<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqhfelzemwrvxxpd7qqfr3m3a7mv4nmf9ydjdnfk83lj6zuhdqmlmszlma7m" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Greg K-H</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…ma7m</span>)</a></span> dropping necessary bombs about LLMs in Linux security and development.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q</a><br/><br/>The purported 79 vulnerabilities were mostly bogus (not a bug, fabricated data) or had already been patched; the few real (all very minor) bugs took him an hour to fix. He says &#34;do not panic&#34;, and emphasizes that time to apply patches is the main vulnerability these days (not an LLM problem).<br/><br/>&#34;These are pattern-matching tools&#34;, &#34;they do not have intent&#34;. (Vindicating to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe0a6n84krygh2qc3ajptu4fa4ma0qy53acz8smsyhztgxljxkghsk25876" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqe0a6n84krygh2qc3ajptu4fa4ma0qy53acz8smsyhztgxljxkghsk25876</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…5876</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqrhr0y4vaqskyq2qejhquzq90yr586hf948m3cgxd7pcqamg4l8cqyg97y5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqrhr0y4vaqskyq2qejhquzq90yr586hf948m3cgxd7pcqamg4l8cqyg97y5</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…97y5</span>)</a></span> re &#34;stochastic parrots&#34;; it was accurate at the time and accurate today, protestations from boorish AI boosters notwithstanding.)<br/><br/>New code is 50% wrong, generated code is littered with new vulnerabilities; need to reject a lot but believes review processes are adequate to prevent a shipping a flood of LLM-generated vulnerabilities.<br/><br/>High false-positive rates make the models incredibly irritating. Cf. Coverity&#39;s post-mortem with a deterministic tool that had low false-positive rates.<br/><br/>Push back hard [on corporate marketing to developers]<br/><br/>With regard to higher CVE rates:<br/><br/>We&#39;ll grind it down like we did with the fuzzers.<br/><br/>If you want to look for bugs with an LLM (which amounts to fuzzy pattern-matching), use a local model and never upload to platforms.<br/><br/>I have banned LLMs from driver staging, unless you have the hardware and can prove you have tested the patch. That&#39;s not what staging is for. Staging is to learn how to do development and get involved with our community. [...] Kernel development is all about trust. If I take patches from you and I don&#39;t know who you are, now I am responsible for that patch. [...] You need to build up trust.<br/><br/>It&#39;s put a lot of additional burden on us, as maintainers. 2026-10-03T03:39:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgyulv49kf3pnncwa5s0x4aefavme8epx0euelf9j5769gw7cjlygzyzhtfnt6nmnv5xpktcfua4vjx8nucqh5267688p5cwuc8du45v2z6u9wmlm This afternoon, the Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution (after strengthening via amendment) calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws, as necessary to meet the chancellor&#39;s artificial decision deadline of tomorrow.<br/><br/>The CU Student Government meeting was this evening and public comment was fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust, societal impact, and genuine commitment to learning. So energizing.<br/><br/>CU Student Government passed their corresponding resolution (with lots of context and calls for shared governance) unanimously on first reading, as necessary to meet the chancellor&#39;s deadline. I am so proud of their curiosity, purpose, commitment to shared governance, and parliamentary skills. ❤️ <br/><br/>University administrators play on our division. They have claimed that there is no coherent message from faculty or students about &#34;AI&#34;. That refusal is fringe. That OpenAI contracts are ordinary procurements not subject to shared governance.<br/><br/>May the record show that faculty and students speak as one. ✊️ <br/><br/>Today was a good day for democracy, no matter what the chancellor deigns to do with this information tomorrow. 2026-10-02T04:12:12Z