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Not exactly a revolutionary technology, ever heard about "static program analysis"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis

Are they surprised that a new approach to the problem has uncovered new vulnerabilities? Who would have thought! 🤔

How many vulnerabilities have been systematically fixed by traditional code analyzers throughout the entire history of Firefox without all this marketing hype?

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Quoting: GerarderloperI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

Could be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?

One would hope that only happens in Nietzsche applications.

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It's got a very Warcraft 2 look to it.

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Loving the top-down perspective, I feel it doesn't get much love lately!

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Using AI for any kind of recognition is good, actually (and often helps with accessibility).

Using AI for creation is not good.

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Good. It's time for gaming companies to take responsibility for spaces they own but opened to public.

You would ban an actively harmful and violent person out of your bar, football pitch, or book club, wouldn't you? This is the same.

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Ars has [an interview](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/frameworks-ceo-on-the-ram-crisis-and-creating-a-macbook-pro-for-linux-users/) with the Framework CEO for those that are interested.

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Quoting: neolithbut I have no idea how Australia's eSafety agency imagines this is going to work in detail. Or perhaps they just don't.

My guess would be, they don't.
They probably just want the devs/companies they are contacting to tell them how they tackle those issues so they themselves won't have to do anything.

Some of the wording is a bit nonsensical, though, I agree.
How exactly do you want to stop someone from, idk, building some swastika-looking things? You can't.

And anything that allows peer 2 peer communication can in theory be abused by one group or another to do their communication in.
At least for Valve/Steam, though, as far as I know message get auto-checked / auto-modded before publishing?

I assume these "reports" they are talking about Steam being a "hub" for one group or another is probably some milquetoast stuff like those "isitwoke" etc curator groups?
I mean, I'd gladly remove any political culture war nonsense from gaming, so getting rid of those would not exactly make me shed tears. However, I do not believe there is really a basis for this.

Yes, all of this feels A LOT like amateur hour - which is unfortunately kind of normal whenever politicians get involved in anything even remotely out of their interest/age group.

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LLM is just saying "large language model" and programming languages are very well structured languages. And it seems that Claude is specialized (or better "optimized") for programming languages, but it can also handle human languages and even has to (see commit messages and issue reports).

Of course it is in first place a PR campaign, but at least it becomes somehow helpful to find vulnerabilities. We still should not replace researchers and use such LLMs just as additional layer in the way of "four eyes see more than two".

There are still a lot of problems with these LLMs, even on this fully legit use case. It is still "endless" amount of energy on times of climate change, LLM trained on stolen data (so it is not GPL2.0 compatible - hello Linux kernel team) and these companies become new gate keepers to these super expensive technologies, at least for the next decades: how can I access Claude Mythos to find vulnerabilities in my own software that is not developed by such big players (maybe I am the solo developer that maintain one keystone of the internet software infrastructure)? And once Mythos become public, companies will push serious [codemaxxing](https://github.com/jshchnz/codemaxxing) even further.

By all the good use cases, we should not forget the whole picture around LLMs.

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This smells like people not understanding how things work.

We've seen numerous media reports about grooming taking place on all four of these platforms...

Well, yeah... different kinds of media outlets publicize all kind of reports. That doesn't mean they are good reports and it doesn't mean what they report has to be true. I've seen reports that claim that all gamers are just waiting to run amok or that aliens have visited.
Why are people in the government relying on random media reports. Didn't they think to check for themselves?

... as well as terrorist and violent extremist-themed gameplay.

By that definition that does include Counterstrike. Are we at that point again? I feel like we've been there ~25 years ago.

... as well as far right groups recreating fascist imagery in Minecraft.

This might come as a aurprise, but you can also do that stuff in Photoshop. I don't like it but that doesn't mean that Adobe should be forced to take action. I am not a Minecraft player, but aren't the worlds selfhosted?
Also, how do you expect MS to limit this kind of creativity in a game that allows for creativity in the first place? It's already impossible to make people not say unwanted things in simple text-chat, how the heck is that supposed to work in Minecraft?

Media reports have also pointed to games in Fortnite gamifying the horrific events...

I am also not a Fortnite player. Does that game have a sandbox mode?

... while Steam is reportedly a hub for a number of extreme-right communities

Reportedly? Didn't they care to check for themselves? I feel whenever you are trying to pass a law, you should not rely on hearsay.

Now don't get me wrong, I am all for not having kids run into extremists and predators online – but I have no idea how Australia's eSafety agency imagines this is going to work in detail. Or perhaps they just don't.

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Quoting: AlveKattI have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

It's LLM, and might be nothing special, just marketing as usual: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

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I have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

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Anthropic have been talking up their new Claude Mythos, which is apparently so powerful and dangerous at finding security vulnerabilities in various software that they've currently chosen to keep it private so only a few select companies and organisations have access to it in Project Glasswing.

in other news:

Anthropic confirms breach of Claude Mythos model and has launched an investigation into the unauthorized access, per bloomberg. Attackers used contractor login credentials of a compromised third party vendor and guessed internal URLs to access multiple unreleased models.

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Love my state! Awesome news!

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Quoting: TevurJust another, vaguely related thing:

Yeserday, I got an update for Steam Runtime 4.0.
When was that released? What is the difference to Sniper? Who uses it?
Why is it not codenamed, yet? (vote for cannoneer)
Maybe for VR, Fex and the Frame...?

Each new Steam Runtime is based on a newer version of Debian. More info [here](https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/steamrt4/README.md).

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Just another, vaguely related thing:

Yeserday, I got an update for Steam Runtime 4.0.
When was that released? What is the difference to Sniper? Who uses it?
Why is it not codenamed, yet? (vote for cannoneer)
Maybe for VR, Fex and the Frame...?

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Quoting: ScottCarammellon one hand, I love Framework and I REALLY want to get one of their laptops when I can afford to.

on the other hand. $1200. base price without RAM or storage. they're not exactly making it easy

My thoughts exactly... They produce nice hardware, but that laptop with the RAM and SSD I need easily puts it higher than what I payed for my computer. That's just not gonna happen, I cannot mindlessly throw away that kind of money.

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Quoting: GerarderloperI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

Could be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?

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Thank you, will do exactly that! :) I just know some books, solaris for example, and there is a brilliant german [adaptation](https://youtu.be/A9D_PlfpBH4?si=PEywZLeCGTE2ZRdB) of the Star Diaries (the guy filmed the first ones in his berlin apartment, and you can see it). Okay, Cyberiad will be directly after The Invincible. :)

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Huh that's interesting I thought Proton Experimental is always bleeding edge and ahead of any release or beta

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War is horrible unnecessary hell and video games should depict it as such

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World War I, the war in which the only "good guys" were James Connolly and the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Lenin and the Bolsheviks. The redrawing of the lines of imperialism in which workers, peasants, and even brown people from colonial occupations were sent to die for the white ruling class.

A divisive conflict, one that saw the closure of the Second International with the split between the revolutionary socialists and bourgeois socialists. The latter of which who were merely liberals holding a red rose. Who not only failed to get over themselves, but also failed to get over the vanity of nations and even imperialism itself.

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I do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

That's usually how bureaucracy goes, it just keeps spreading like a cancer until nothing can move!

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I hate AI I hate AI I hate AI I hate AI I hate AI I hate it so much please I just want technology to be cool again is that so much to ask

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Hopefully the damage done by age verification laws can be limited (ideally, they would not be made at all, but I'm not expecting much in the way of regulatory competence right now).

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on one hand, I love Framework and I REALLY want to get one of their laptops when I can afford to.

on the other hand. $1200. base price without RAM or storage. they're not exactly making it easy

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Hi, the automatic DLL injector was added in Wine 11.6. This may be added to Proton when 11.** or 12. is moved to the stable branch

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wine-11-6-is-an-exciting-release-to-make-modding-windows-games-on-linux-simpler/

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Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

VoiceMeeter is actually free, although they do ask for money if you want. And it provides a lot of features that makes it a breeze to manage a fair amount of real and virtual input/output with multiple routing, in addition to a pretty good networked audio solution on top of it and various built-in effects.

It's actually the piece of software I miss the most from windows, although I just coded a pair of scripts that tweak all my audio devices as needed, now, so all of this is kinda moot to me now. And it also auto-toggle when my wireless corsair headset connects, which was impossible to do on windows, as far as I know.

Still, it's nice to have more good UI for audio management moving forward. Pulsemeeter is another project, but seems to move very slowly, and not everyone is comfortable with just piping scripts in `pw-cli`.

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I'm most excited for the couch keyboard which will perfectly compliment my couch gaming setup and make the ocasional dive into desktop mode much less annoying.😇 And with QMK/VIA support and triple connection mode, that's an instant buy for me.

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its ironic that the steam deck competition that bet on power to compete against it , will be the most affected by the hardware prices...
now if valve could start selling the deck again...

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