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IBM and Red Hat Launch $5B AI-Driven Open Source Security Initiative
technology2 days ago

IBM and Red Hat Launch $5B AI-Driven Open Source Security Initiative

IBM and Red Hat unveil Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative that uses frontier AI and a 20,000-strong engineering force to create a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open source software, enabling rapid vulnerability identification, validation, and patches across the software supply chain with upstream disclosures and enterprise subscriptions. Initial deployments with major banks aim to strengthen OSS security across production environments.

OpenAI Codex Security Uncovers 10,561 High-Severity Issues in 1.2 Million Commits
technology2 months ago

OpenAI Codex Security Uncovers 10,561 High-Severity Issues in 1.2 Million Commits

OpenAI rolled out Codex Security in a research preview for ChatGPT Pro/Enterprise customers, offering AI-driven code security checks that analyze a project’s context, generate a threat model, validate vulnerabilities in a sandbox, and propose fixes. In beta, it scanned 1.2 million commits across external repos and found 792 critical and 10,561 high-severity issues, including flaws in OpenSSH, GnuTLS, GOGS, Thorium, libssh, PHP, and Chromium. OpenAI says the system reduces false positives through context grounding and automated validation, with free usage for the next month.

Claude Opus 4.6 Spotlights 500+ Open-Source Security Flaws
technology3 months ago

Claude Opus 4.6 Spotlights 500+ Open-Source Security Flaws

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 reportedly identifies over 500 high-severity vulnerabilities in major open-source libraries such as Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF, demonstrating improved code-reading and debugging abilities; the company validated findings and uses the model to help prioritize and patch critical memory-corruption issues, while stressing safeguards against misuse.