Did you just ask ChatGPT to give you a list of articles with the word “leak” in them? I haven’t gone through all of them, but I see two of them are Windows zombie process bugs, one is an Intel branch predictor attack, one is the example in the OP (which you posted…)
I don’t use ChatGPT. I found that list in a one-minute search on Hacker News, and the only point my comment adresses is the factually wrong statement that memory leaks are not a problem.
Here some examples of memory leaks:
https://xcancel.com/neogoose_btw/status/1968757466570621251
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/finding-a-vs-code-memory-leak/
https://yngve.vivaldi.net/amd-you-infected-my-pc-with-zombies/
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/7704
https://cyberinsider.com/new-intel-cpu-flaw-bypasses-spectre-v2-defenses-to-leak-kernel-memory/
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/issues/2893
Did you just ask ChatGPT to give you a list of articles with the word “leak” in them? I haven’t gone through all of them, but I see two of them are Windows zombie process bugs, one is an Intel branch predictor attack, one is the example in the OP (which you posted…)
I don’t use ChatGPT. I found that list in a one-minute search on Hacker News, and the only point my comment adresses is the factually wrong statement that memory leaks are not a problem.