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Growing Up The Hard Way
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The essay highlights the emerging threat of AI systems that autonomously discover and chain zero-day vulnerabilities and weaponize software supply-chain distribution at scale, a concern defenders of open-source ecosystems must track.
An editorial essay from The Hacker News, "Growing Up The Hard Way," uses a coming-of-age metaphor to describe how open source software now faces AI-driven security pressure, citing real supply-chain incidents (SolarWinds, Log4Shell, Shai-Hulud) and framing a two-front threat: "Mythos-class AI" discovering chained zero-days faster than defenders can triage them, alongside industrialized poisoning of software distribution channels.