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Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-04-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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This opinion piece critiques Anthropic's Project Glasswing and its Mythos AI—an automated vulnerability-finding/fixing system—warning that improved AI discovery could overwhelm understaffed open-source maintainers, often produces reports without reliable fixes, risks vendor lock-in for security tooling, and may accelerate both defensive and offensive capabilities without presenting any specific incident or technical exploit details.

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