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GitHub
GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code

GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and …

Meshery
Meshery: Open-source cloud-native manager for Kubernetes

Meshery is an open-source tool for designing, deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure, built by Layer5 and its community and hosted as a Cloud Native Computing …

CISO
Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous …

Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program
Google quadruples Chrome bug bounty base pay, offers up to $20,000 for sandbox escapes

Google is updating its Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program (Chrome VRP), increasing payments for memory corruption vulnerabilities and expanding rewards for other security …

Firefox Enterprise
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser

Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web …

Meta
Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf

Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The …

critical infrastructure cyber safety
Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab

Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 13, 2026

CISO & Head of IT Trigo | Israel | On-site – View job details As a CISO & Head of IT, you will lead the IT and Information Security team, set strategy and …

Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft’s new model helps AI agents judge their next move

Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. …

Microsoft
Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027

Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The …

approve
AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem

Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the …

open source
What makes some open source updates so difficult?

Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering …

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