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Anthropic launches free AI vulnerability scanner as Google's open source bug bounty halts

Anthropic OSS Scanner, launched October 8, 2026, gives open-source projects free AI-powered vulnerability scanning using ...

Google’s Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI – even on phones

Now open-source under Apache 2.0, Gemma 4 brings offline, multimodal AI to servers, phones, and Raspberry Pi - giving ...

Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge

Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded ...
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Google’s 2025 open source report counts roughly 10% of Alphabet’s workforce as active contributors and $2M in project funding

Google published its annual open source retrospective this week, revealing that roughly 10% of Alphabet’s full-time workforce actively contributed to open source projects in 2025 and that its Open ...

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
Help Net Security

What makes some open source updates so difficult?

Google’s study examines open source maintenance costs, showing how local patches and dependencies increase package update ...
Crypto Briefing

Google pauses open source bug bounty program as AI-generated reports pile up

Google is pausing its OSS bug bounty program after AI-generated reports flooded the system with hallucinated and low-impact vulnerability ...

This open source gallery app does what Google Photos won't: leave your pictures alone

Google Photos can be quite intrusive at times ...
Android Authority

I dumped 11 popular Google apps on my Android phone for these open-source alternatives

Before I get accused of Google-bashing, let me make one thing clear: Google makes some of Android’s best apps. Google Keep? Maps? The Play Store!? I’d find it difficult to ax all of these from my life ...