17 real security bugs in 10 weeks, all from an AI scanner (opens in new tab)  ⚙operating systems

Over the last several weeks, I’ve been receiving more security bug reports for Perfetto’s trace processor than I ever have before, all of them found by AI. And I’m very happy about it! These are bugs that would almost certainly not have been found a year ago and it feels good to close these loopholes even though trace processor is by no means security critical. For years, security researchers concentrated their time on the highest-stakes targets: kernels, cryptography libraries, password mana...