#softwarebugs — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 OMG, #dnsmasq is exploding! 🚨 In a shocking twist of fate, CERT drops six #CVEs on lazy vendors who didn't realize their software was a ticking time bomb. Apparently, "longstanding bugs" means "we've ignored this for years, but now it's an emergency" 😂.
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html #cybersecurity #softwarebugs #vendorresponsibility #emergencyfix #HackerNews #ngated

🥴 Oh, the joys of bug reporting with Apple: it's like playing whack-a-mole where the moles gaslight you into thinking they're fixed unless you constantly babysit them. Developers suggest boycotting the Feedback Assistant – but who can resist the thrill of shouting into the void, hoping for a miracle? 🤪🔧
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/11.html #bugreporting #Apple #FeedbackAssistant #developerstruggles #softwarebugs #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

TechCrunch: For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing. “Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to ‘vouched’ users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, ‘AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.'”

Do AI models help produce verified bug fixes?

"Abstract: Among areas of software engineering where AI techniques — particularly, Large Language Models — seem poised to yield dramatic improvements, an attractive candidate is Automatic Program Repair (APR), the production of satisfactory corrections to software bugs. Does this expectation materialize in practice? How do we find out, making sure that proposed corrections actually work? If programmers have access to LLMs, how do they actually use them to complement their own skills?

To answer these questions, we took advantage of the availability of a program-proving environment, which formally determines the correctness of proposed fixes, to conduct a study of program debugging with two randomly assigned groups of programmers, one with access to LLMs and the other without, both validating their answers through the proof tools. The methodology relied on a division into general research questions (Goals in the GoalQuery-Metric approach), specific elements admitting specific answers (Queries), and measurements supporting these answers (Metrics). While applied so far to a limited sample size, the results are a first step towards delineating a proper role for AI and LLMs in providing guaranteed-correct fixes to program bugs.

These results caused surprise as compared to what one might expect from the use of AI for debugging and APR. The contributions also include: a detailed methodology for experiments in the use of LLMs for debugging, which other projects can reuse; a finegrain analysis of programmer behavior, made possible by the use of full-session recording; a definition of patterns of use of LLMs, with 7 distinct categories; and validated advice for getting the best of LLMs for debugging and Automatic Program Repair"

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.15822

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Debugging #Programming #APR #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareBugs

🎉 Breaking News: CPUs are magic and can predict the future! 🧙‍♂️ Forget about pesky bugs, who needs software that works when you have a "predictor" that sounds like a character from a bad sci-fi movie? 😂
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/ittage-branch-predictor/ #CPUsareMagic #FuturePrediction #BadSciFiTech #TechHumor #SoftwareBugs #HackerNews #ngated

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/gta-san-andreas-win11-24h2-bug/

#HackerNews #GTA #SanAndreas #Windows11 #TechNews #Gaming #SoftwareBugs

Oh look, it's another genius idea: deliberately inject bugs 🐞 and cross your fingers that your tests just, you know, magically catch them. Because who needs stable code when you can have a zombie apocalypse of software errors? 🧟‍♂️🔧
https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants #geniusideas #softwarebugs #testingfailures #codingnightmare #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

VentureBeat: AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering. “In a new paper, OpenAI researchers detail how they developed an LLM benchmark called SWE-Lancer to test how much foundation models can earn from real-life freelance software engineering tasks. The test found that, while the models can solve bugs, they can’t see why the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/ai-can-fix-bugs-but-cant-find-them-openais-study-highlights-limits-of-llms-in-software-engineering-venturebeat/

#Hackers are using #AI to find #softwarebugs - but there is a downside

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2433247-hackers-are-using-ai-to-find-software-bugs-but-there-is-a-downside/?amp;utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news

#Artificialintelligence models similar to #ChatGPT are able to identify errors in #computercode, letting people claim rewards for finding them - but others are using the same tools to report #bugs that don't actually exist

draft - In google docs for Android, when we tap this area where it says "untitled document", it's supposed to auto-populate with the first sentence of what we type. However, that doesn't seem to be currently working... Anyone else having this issue ?

#googledocs
#android
#pimdata
#googledocsforandroid
#googledocsandroid
#androidgoogledocs
#pixel
#gdocs
#gdoc
#productivity
#listmaking
#writing
#chromeos
#chromebook
#softwarebugs
#softwarebug
#androidapps
#googleapps
#googleworkspace
#gsuite