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A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security

A research team has built a system that teaches AI agents to hunt for software bugs by writing the audit method down as plain text. The system, called EVOHUNT, keeps the …

Agent Beacon
Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call …

systemd
The systemd 261 release brings a software TPM, new OS installer

Linux distributions that ship systemd as their init system now have a new version to track. The systemd 261 update adds a cloud metadata subsystem, carries process state …

Homebrew
Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface

Anyone who installs software through a third-party Homebrew tap runs Ruby code written by people outside the project, and that code runs without a sandbox. That risk sits at …

shield
The Chainguard Athena coalition already shipped 2,000 patches across 500 open source projects

Chainguard launched Athena, an industry coalition that pools open source vulnerability findings and remediates them under embargo before public disclosure. The group went live …

Microsoft AntiSSRF
Microsoft AntiSSRF open-source library helps block server-side request forgery

AntiSSRF is an open-source code library from Microsoft that validates URLs and network connections to reduce server-side request forgery (SSRF) risks in web applications. It …

CI/CD Abuse Detector
Open-source CI/CD abuse detector guards against stolen credential attacks

CI/CD Abuse Detector is an open-source project that uses a large language model to flag suspicious changes to continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, …

Proxmox
Proxmox releases Mail Gateway 9.1 with quarantine and backup encryption changes

Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 adds updated system components, changes to the spam quarantine interface, and encryption for backups. It works as a mail proxy positioned between the …

Robot
X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot …

NOVA
NOVA microhypervisor brings AMD DMA isolation to shared AI infrastructure

BlueRock has issued the latest open-source release of its NOVA Microhypervisor with DMA remapping support for AMD platforms that have IOMMU hardware virtualization. The …

LiteLLM
LiteLLM vulnerability under active attack, CISA warns (CVE-2026-42271)

A command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-42271) in BerryAI’s LiteLLM open-source AI gateway is being exploited by attackers, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure …

DockSec
DockSec: Open-source AI-powered Docker security scanner

DockSec is an OWASP Incubator Project that combines three container security scanners with a language-model layer for explanation and remediation. Created by Advait Patel, the …

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