Linux Foundation, Tech Giants Launch Akrites to Defend Open Source Against AI-Powered Attacks

Linux Foundation, Tech Giants Launch Akrites to Defend Open Source Against AI-Powered Attacks

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In brief The Linux Foundation launched Akrites on Thursday with 19 founding members to coordinate the remediation of critical open source vulnerabilities before AI-enabled attackers can exploit them. Fewer than 5% of the thousands of open-source vulnerabilities surfaced by AI in recent months have been patched, according to Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar. Akrites is…

Linux Foundation launches Akrites to protect open source from AI

Linux Foundation launches Akrites to protect open source from AI

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The Linux Foundation, together with a broad coalition of technology companies, financial institutions, and open-source organizations, is launching the Akrites initiative . According to the organizers, AI has accelerated the pace at which vulnerabilities in open-source software are discovered to such an extent that the existing process for reporting and fixing security flaws is no…