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Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

Lightwell is a huge effort to safeguard open-source software. IBM and Red Hat are investing in this massive security initiative. We don't yet know how this subscription-based service will work. AI is ...

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.
Opinion

Chainguard's new Athena coalition uses AI to fix open-source flaws - before attackers exploit them

Chainguard will use AI to protect open-source code. Athena pools open-source users, developers, and maintainers. Others are also using AI to secure open-source code. As Chainguard puts it, "The gap ...
Computer Weekly

Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

The ease with which developers can integrate third-party open source code has created a security and sustainability crisis, according to a senior executive at edge cloud platform Fastly. Speaking to ...