TLDR Tech / DevOps
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative partnering with Trail of Bits to not only find vulnerabilities in critical open-source software but actually help maintainers fix them using AI-assisted security research and expert human review. The program has already identified hundreds of security issues and merged dozens of patches across nine initial projects, including cURL, Python, and the Go project, with Trail of Bits dedicating its entire security research organization to validate findings, develop patches, and coordinate disclosure before anything reaches overwhelmed maintainers.
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