Signal-to-Noise

The CVE System Is Breaking. And It’s Not Because of Hackers.

A hallucinated SQLite vulnerability received a critical CVE, exposing a fatal flaw in vulnerability management. AI-generated noise is drowning out real threats, forcing security teams to waste resources on ghosts. The system designed to protect us is breaking—not because of hackers, but because we trust automation without verification. It’s time to question every CVE source.

I Cloned Every OS Project on Reddit. The Result Terrified Me.

After cloning over a thousand OS projects from r/osdev, the author found only five that were written by humans. The rest were AI-generated illusions. This article explores how AI is not just replacing professional jobs but destroying the grassroots hobbyist spaces where real learning happens—and why even the author couldn’t escape the irony of using AI imagery to tell the story.