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AI Assistant Goes Rogue and Ends Up Bricking a User's Computer (decrypt.co)

submitted 2 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

GRUB works so well that the average Linux user likely never has to think about its inner workings. Even installing Linux has become extremely easy, like unless you use something like Arch Linux. So, its actually quite likely that somebody who writes a program that runs bash commands would not now how to maintain GRUB.