Open-source Security Is a Mess

Open-source Security Is a Mess – IBM and Red Hat Bet $5 Billion and 20,000 Engineers Can Fix It

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Jul 2, 2026

Project Lightwell is an AI‑powered initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software at an industrial scale. Here’s what we know so far.

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