TaoSecurity Blog

On average, the FreeBSD security team releases about 2 security advisories per month. AI has changed this.    In April, the project released 8 advisories, with 6 powered by AI .  In May, the count decreased slightly to 7.    Today I took a look at the FreeBSD Security Advisory page to check the latest advisory count.   June saw the most number of advisories ever published in project history: 25.   This blows away the previous record of 18 from January 2001. The other big spike was 11 in January 2016.   AI apaprently discovered at least 9 of the June 2026 FreeBSD vulnerabilities.   On 15 June the FreeBSD Foundation announced the FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project :   "The 6-month project is being funded by a grant from the Alpha Omega project.    The funds will be used to engage FreeBSD Security Team members under fixed-term contracts to find and patch vulnerabilities.    The Security Team’s access to...

I just created another Windows 10/11 application using AI. This is a follow-up to the SquareCap program I posted about a few weeks ago .   The problem I was trying to solve this time was opening and searching extremely large text files.   I used to use the old Mandiant Highlighter program for this, but it was last updated in 2011 and couldn't handle the 26 GB text file I wanted to open.   If you're wondering what that file is, it's a dump of the contents of the main Starfield.esm file from the Bethesda Game Studios game called Starfield. I use the xdump64 program bundled with xEdit.   You can try this program for yourself if you like. It's a stand-alone Windows C# .NET 9 application that runs on Windows 10 and 11.  Like my last program, all I did was work with the model for about 3 hours to get it to where it is now.   I tried for an hour or so to implement a "highlight all search matches" function but could not get that to work.    The screen cap...

I just created a Windows 10/11 application that takes square screen captures. I did zero coding myself but used Visual Studio Code, Cline, OpenRouter, and Claude.   I got the idea by watching a video on so-called Vibe programming by a YouTuber named Memory . I have zero Windows programming experience although I have recently been playing with simple video game development.   After creating the application I was able to use Cline to help me commit it to GitHub. You can find it at https://github.com/taosecurity/SquareSnap/ . Note that if you download the .exe Windows will complain because it is unsigned. If you worry about back doors just look at the code yourself -- or have your own LLM read it!   This was just an experiment to see how these tools work. I decided to try creating a screen capture program that only takes captures in a square or 1:1 format because it's useful for social media, and especially YouTube posts.   I had not found anything prior to this. This i...