this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026

166 points (82.7% liked)

Linux

15284 readers

374 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev

166

Yea... (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

158 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 0 points 6 days ago

Long story short: AI using AI can find ways to run itself on TV set top boxes and similar common IoT devices, as part of a bot-net. It can also find ways to self-propogate such bot-nets across many surprisingly low powered and widely distributed devices in our world.