Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
2026-05-02T19:24:03Z•42fa1a3d9994b1a5bd560d8ce7dcb8aa4f408e24d281d33cf37c768b57de5c75
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What happened
A consolidated security news roundup: UK NCSC warns that AI-driven bug hunting will expose years of buried technical debt, triggering a "patch tsunami." Multiple actively exploited, high-severity issues are reported — notably a critical cPanel/WHM authentication-bypass/root takeover vulnerability being exploited in the wild (now on CISA's known-exploited list), and Google’s Gemini CLI patched for a CVSS 10.0 remote RCE that may break CI workflows. Other incidents include supply-chain compromises hitting npm/PyPI and developer/security tools, an LPE in Linux cryptographic code with patches, a C
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- 2026-05-02T19:24:03Z
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