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Anthropic launches OSS Scanner for free AI security audits of critical open-source projects

According to a post on X by @Marktechpost, Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, which gives enrolled critical open-source projects recurring security audits from its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. Raw findings are sent directly to maintainers along with a reproducer and a candidate patch. Anthropic says its models found more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months, and curl has already shipped a fix for one of them. The available text is truncated, so further details are not covered here.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-10-25T12:15:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-25T13:32:27+00:00
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According to a post on X by @Marktechpost, Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, which gives enrolled critical open-source projects recurring security audits from its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. Raw findings are sent directly to maintainers along with a reproducer and a candidate patch. Anthropic says its models found more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months, and curl has already shipped a fix for one of them. The available text is truncated, so further details are not covered here.

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Enrolled projects get recurring audits from Anthropic's strongest models, including Claude Mythos, with raw findings sent straight to maintainers along with a reproducer and a candidate patch; Anthropic says its models found more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months, and curl already shipped a fix...

Maintainers of enrolled open-source projects would receive candidate fixes alongside each finding, which could shorten the time between discovery and patching for widely used software. Developers and companies that depend on that code could see fixes arrive sooner. Watch how many projects enroll and whether the candidate patches hold up in practice.

Signal Strength 94% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 60 Category OPEN SOURCE Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 73 Practical Impact Score 44 Novelty Interest Score 94 Consequence Score 46 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 69

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